Anime
HGUC Gouf Custom Review
By Loran Man, was 2001 really ten years ago? I remember back then, the 08th MS Team Gundam kits were showing up on American toy shelves. I got the Gouf Custom in the fall that […]
Month: July 2011
Magazines
Fluorescent Black Is Back
Fluorescent Black is back in stock, hardcover and soft… along with tons of other Heavy Metal releases. Stop by and check out our new Heavy Metal section! Fluorescent Black takes readers into the hard-hitting dark […]
Toys
Transformers DOTM Barricade Review
By Loran Like I said back in my Smolder review, the idea of “rescue” vehicles as Decepticons has always appealed to me. As such, Barricade was a “love-at-first-sight” for me when I first saw his […]
Mini Comics
Morgan Pielli’s Pile of Mini’s: Stop Touching That Spaztic Colon!
I have burrowed my way to the center of the mini comics pile in search of the Mole King, who has made off with my girlfriend. Evidently I insulted the Mole Peoples’ widely held belief […]
Toys
Transformers DOTM Megatron Review
by Loran If there’s one Movieverse character I’ve been holding off on ever since the first Transformers movie, it was Megatron. I came close to buying the repaint of his Revenge of the Fallen Leader […]
Dark Horse
Ghost Blusters
By Unkiedev GHOSTS! That’s what I’ve been bothering me at all hours of the night, moaning, rattling chains and generally making themselves look like asses…although I’m sure they think they’re pretty clever, don’t you Ghosts? […]
Comic Book Movies
Lloyd Kaufman @ The Strand 7/6/11
Lloyd Kaufman will be at The Strand tomorrow (July 6th) at 7 PM to discuss and sign his new book Sell Your Own Damn Movie. Make sure to drop by Forbidden Planet before hand and […]
Anime
Short packed: American Avengers, non-moving parts and 2 packs
By Chris Troy Happy 4th of July FPNYC faithful. If you’re anything like me, you’ll be drunk by 2, bbqing and watching Battlestar Galatica on Netflix. Maybe some fireworks. I dunno, Battlestar is really good […]
Events
Destroy All VHS
Coming to Brooklyn this Sunday July 10th, Wild Eye Releasing and Nitehawk Cinema present an event to sate the needs of any film freak. This ain’t no retro throw back, this is the real deal! Put […]
Mini Comics
Morgan Pielli’s Pile of Minis: Mike Diana and the NSFW Band
If one is not careful, a fellow co-worker can cause an avalanche of mini-comics (or “comicslanch”, from the roots “comics” and “brucevilanch”) by speaking too loudly or inadvertently sitting on a Talking Stay-Puff Marshmallow Man […]
Comics and Graphic Novels
Shortpacked: Familiar Faces
By Chris Troy I’m sure by now, you, the Forbidden Planet blog reader, are dying to know what I think of the Green Lantern movie, as well as the DC Reboot this upcoming September (If […]