Neil Gaiman’s signature creation returns this week in The Sandman Overture #1, and FP is gearing up for its giagantoid release with a sale on ALL Sandman backlist. If you’ve never experienced The Sandman before […]
Forbidden Planet WILL be participating in this year’s Halloween ComicFest! On Saturday October 26th starting at 9am we will be giving away FREE comics to boys and girls (and “whatevers…” no need to worry, Gonzo) of […]
It’s New Comic Book Day(!) and the store is open from 8am to MIDNIGHT. Here’s some of today’s new single issues. Our picks of the week include Pretty Deadly #1 by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Emma […]
This is where my usually hilarious intro paragraph goes, but I don’t got the time for that today. Hawk-talk time is now! Hawkeye #13 Matt Fraction/ David Aja Marvel Comics, $2.99, 20 pages David […]
Critics’ AND reader’s pick! I’ll have to ask them to fix the address and pic, but we’re extremely honored. Here’s a link to the article. Forbidden Planet is insane—the noise, the size, the sheer staggering display of […]
I survived New York Comic Con 2013 and all I got was….a butt ton of stuff actually. Roughly $180 worth or stuff. No regrets, YOLO and such, because if I review it, I can write […]
FACT: I HAVE NOT BEEN DOING A GREAT JOB OF KEEPING UP ON THIS PART OF THE BLOG, A DOZEN APOLOGIES! NYCC prep has been crazier than usual. IT HAS BEGUN! Revealed back at San […]
This idea of color as something other than coding is nothing new, and since the days of Frank Santoro’s “Sirk” and even earlier with Françoise Mouly’s and Spiegleman’s RAW Magazine, cartoonists have been figuring […]
Holy moly. This time next week I’ll be back in my beloved second city, New York City. For NYCC! I’m going to hug everyone at Forbidden Planet so hard they won’t know what hit them. […]
To do 10/10/13 (and where your friendly neighborhood FPNYC manager will be headed after our Adventure Time gig tomorrow night): Dynamite Entertainment and The Beat’s NYCC Welcome Party and Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Member […]
Hey, Walking Dead fans- Forbidden Planet is indeed hosting a midnight release for issue #115 tonight, but there’s a new novel out TODAY. The Fall of the Governor: “The Walking Dead original novel series, set in […]
Many thanks to our friends at Boom! Studios who stopped by the shop yesterday with the Boom Mobile. They gave away gobs of free comics, graphic novels and t-shirts and a good time was had […]
On Friday 10/11/13 we’ll be celebrating Legendary Comics night here at The Planet, the final event in our New York City Comic-Con week series. Join us at 6pm to meet special guests MATT WAGNER (The Tower Chronicles, […]
This coming Tuesday: Paul Pope’s Battling Boy FINALLY releases!!! We’ll be selling it for 25% OFF cover in-store day of release only. It’s also available for mail order at that discount as of this posting […]
Told you next week’s going to be an astoundingly fantastic week here at the shop. Check out the spectacular, jam-packed lineup we’ve got for next Wednesday night! Amy Reeder and Brandon Montclare (Rocket Girl, Halloween Eve), […]
It was a GREAT week for comics that I buy, and I am excited to tell you all about them FPNYC Faithful. Let me do so right now! In terms of new releases for 2013, […]
The deadlines for the Forbidden Planet blog/Daily Planet are much like the rules of Calvin-ball, which is to say capricious. That porcupine attack on Wednesday kept me from my desk desk until Friday…but then I […]
The week of New York Comic-Con 2013 (10/7 through 10/11) is shaping up to be a dooooooozy ’round these parts, with signings and other events lined up for EVERY SINGLE NIGHT!!! Yesterday I let the […]
I don’t mean to purposefully draw themes from all the comics I want to talk about each week, but there was a glaringly obvious coincidence between a lot of the wonderful books coming out today […]
The European comic shop scene is weird to me you guys. Between London, Halifax and Paris, I saw no less than a dozen comics shops, some of them named Forbidden Planet even, but man, it’s […]
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