Comic Book Movies
Outpost 31
Last Halloween, I sewed an Outpost 31 patch on my wintercoat and made believe that I was R.J. MacReady from John Carpenter’s 1982 sci-fi horror masterpiece The Thing. The other guy is my buddy, James, […]
Books
Comic Book Movies
C.R.A.Z.Y.
Lookee! for 2/4/11
Fascinating. Science writer Lee Billings has been guest blogging for BoingBoing this week, dissecting NASA’s big Kepler news and exploring other exoplanetary pursuits. Have ya heard the one about Bill Murray at a Bears playoff […]
Comic Book Movies
Best News I’ve Heard All Week- JMS Adapting Classic Ellison Story for the Big Screen
J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5, Amazing Spider-Man, Thor) is apparently shopping his adaptation of Unca Harlan’s “Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Tictockman as a feature film. “Since this has apparently leaked onto several film-oriented websites, I […]
Marvel Comics
Recommended: Casanova TP Volume 1, Luxuria
Reason numero uno to be cheerful if you’re a comics fan on this January Wednesday? The re-release of Casanova in graphic novel format. Meet Casanova Quinn: prodigal son of a law-and-order family hell-bent on keeping […]
Science
LOOKEE! for January 6th 2011
Mars rover Spirit’s tracks on its way to “Columbia Hills” in 2004 Video: The movie may be a steaming pile of poop, but The making of Tron Legacy (or how to make Jeff Bridges 28 […]
Science Fiction
Forbidden Planet NYC on Sci Fi Science
Mark your calendars, my fellow science nerderinos. I’ve just learned the dates FP and some of our customers and staff are set to appear on The Science Channel’s new season of Sci Fi Science. What […]
Comic Book Movies
TRON Update 8.29.10
…In which we catch up with one of our favorite subjects. Actor Peter Jurasik, who played a compound interest program named Crom in the original film, showed up in an article in the Star News […]
Science Fiction
Yaphet Kotto as Picard, Wesley Snipes as Geordi LaForge? The Star Trek TNG That Might Have Been
Letters of Note has discovered and posted this intriguing internal Paramount communiqué from 1987. The casting memo, summarizing potential actors in the running for various roles in the studio’s then-forthcoming relaunch of the Star Trek franchise, […]
Books
Signing: Nathan Fox, Artist of DMZ #56 and More, August 12th
Next Thursday, August 12th, FP will be host to a fantastic, splendiferous appearance by Nathan Fox, who will be signing and sketching in-store! He’ll also be bringing some original art and other goodies as well. […]
Science Fiction
Dating
The Great Harlan Rare Book Purge Numero Tres
If you’re unfamiliar with the man’s quite massive and exceptional body work, Harlan Ellison is one of the great writers of the last hundred years and you simply must drop everything you’re doing and seek […]
Events
Robert Picardo Signing @ Forbidden Planet NYC 6/5
Hey!!! In a rare NYC appearance, Robert Picardo’s gonna be signing at the shop on Saturday the 5th at 1pm! Robert’s genre credits are numerous (to say the least… Smallville, Stargate’s Richard Woolsey, The WonderYears’ […]
Events
FCBD Update: Thomas Hall
Thomas Hall, co-creator and writer of Robot 13, shall be joining our FCBD celebration from 1130am-1pm Satuday the 1st, proffering issues 1-3 of one of the best indy-sciffy-horror-monster comics ever produced and handing out free […]
Boom! Studios
Farscape Signing at Forbidden Planet NYC
Time to anounce another keen event going down at the store this week, this one celebrating the fantastic new Farscape comics published by BOOM! David Alan Mack and Will Sliney are the script writer/artist team […]
Science Fiction
Take Me Out to the Holosuite
What little free time I’ve had since this past Monday has been occupied by just one thing: Baseball. It’s one of the only forms of entertainment I enjoy more than comics, SF and other geeky […]
Comic Book Movies
Links 3/11/10
Coming soon: Battlestar Galactica MMO. Slated to be a browser-based space strategy game, offered exclusively on syfy.com for its first 30 days, this is being developed by obscure (and relatively unproven) Norwegian developer Artplant– which […]
Books
Some Valentine’s Day Recommendations- Alice in Wonderland & In Me Own Words, the Autobiography of Bigfoot
…Wherein I hastily breeze through an overview of various Alice in Wonderland illustrated editions, discuss one of my single favorite books of all time, and demonstrate how one might make an ass out of one’s […]
Comic Book Movies
Lynch & Herbert on Dune, Cameron’s Apology to Giger, & More
Russ Fischer at /Film has posted all six parts of a fascinating conversation between Dune visionaries Frank Herbert and David Lynch, recorded for Waldenbooks in 1983. Letters of Note features James Cameron’s response to H.R. […]
Events
Ronald Chevalier Event Update
Unfortunately the schedule for Ronald Chevalier is not going to permit him to make his previously mentioned appearance at Forbidden Planet. We do however have advanced screening passes for those interested while supplies last . […]