Events
B-Horror Art Show at MF Gallery
Grab your self a fresh pair of underwear cause those cool cats from MF Gallery are hosting an awesome B-Horror themed art show that will make you crap! Some good friends of mine (who just […]
Events
Comic Book Movies
Less Than 2 Weeks till the Slime City Massacre DVD Release Party
Here is the updated poster for the Slime City Massacre DVD release party we are throwing on Friday May 13th. You can also pre-order the DVD on our website by clicking on the picture below. […]
Events
MAY FRIDAY THE 13th SLIME CITY MASSACRE RELEASE PARTY!
SLIME IS MONEY!!!
Comic Book Movies
Fangoria invites you to a 3-D Priest Party
Early this afternoon I got a phone call by none other than Tony Timpone! As a long time Fangoria fan you have to understand the weight that name carries, and for him to be calling […]
Events
An Evening with Frank Quitely
Coming this Tuesday, April 5th… comic artist superstar Frank Quitely (We3, Batman and Robin) in conversation with Jose Villarrubia (Conan, Batman Year 100) a few blocks away from Forbidden Planet! Forbidden Planet’s hawking advance tickets […]
Events
Matt Jones Multiverse Opening Tonight!
You read the title… The opening reception for the Matt Jones exhibition Multiverse at Freight+Volume is today. So get off your butt and go check out some art! What: Matt Jones Multiverse Opening Reception When: […]
Books
Krampus and the Super Moon
This is one of the more interesting titles hitting the shelves this week. From Last Gasp, Krampus the Devil of Christmas hardcover by Monte Beauchamp. Now available in Hardcover! In the early Christmas traditions of Europe, […]
Events
Matt Jones Multiverse
Fans of Wolverine, Stephen Hawking and Black Flag make sure to mark your calendar’s for Matt Jones Multiverse! Matt is a good friend of mine (and a great customer for that matter) and this is […]
Comic Book Movies
Monster-Mania Con 17
This weekend I will be away at the Monster-Mania Con in Cherry Hill New Jersey! I try to attend as many horror conventions a year as possible, and Monster-Mania is always at least one of […]
Comic Book Movies
Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather Of Gore @ Anthology Film Archives
I just wanted to extend a sincere thanks to everybody who came out this past Friday for the Bad Biology Blu-ray release party with Frank Henenlotter and Anthony Sneed. It was a total success with […]
Comic Book Movies
Happy Birthday Will Eisner
Today is Will Eisner’s 94th birthday! Why is it that we celebrate a persons birth even after death? Why not celebrate his death day? Or better yet, lets celebrate an important day in the persons […]
Comic Book Movies
Frank Henenlotter Signing Friday! T-Shirts revealed!
Less than 24 hours left before Frank Henenlotter and Anthony Sneed grace Forbidden Planet with their presence. Here’s a sneak peek at the limited edition Basket Case and Bad Biology shirts… Hope to see you […]
Comic Book Movies
Junk Food Dinner Movie Night
My buddy Mark Freado over at Junk Food Dinner is now hosting a movie night in Bed-Stuy, along with Kevin Merryman, who also runs a radical blog called Cultural Atrocities. March 1st is a red letter […]
Conventions
New York Comic Book Marketplace!
Right now as you read this Mike Carbo’s New York Comic Book Marketplace is going on. Make sure to stop by the Katz Comics booth and say hi to Forbidden Planet Transmissions Comic Guy Ruben […]
Comic Book Movies
Fatal Attractions Part 3
Tonight! Thursday February 17th at 8PM come out to Legion Bar for Big Fat Scary Thursdays. Every third Thursday of the month prepare for scares and laughs as Ben and Henry (and Ed) host/mock a […]
Events
Alexander Hammond Signing at Forbidden Planet 3.3.11 at 6:30pm!
There’s a signingcoming up for you sci-fi fans coming March 3rd (Thursday) at 6:30 with author Alexander Hammond! Join us at our NYC location for the in store signing of his latest book Tales From the Edge […]
Exhibits
Comics Stripped at The Museum of Sex
Comics Stripped, a new exhibit at the Museum of Sex here in NYC, opens today. Comics historian Craig Yoe (Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman’s Co-Creator Joe Shuster, Clean Cartoonists’ Dirty Drawings) is serving […]
Holiday!
Adios 2010, Hola 2011
Happy New Year! 2010’s gone- out with a hectic bang on my end of the screen- and I finally have Time Enough at Last to wish you a most agreeable 2011. Speaking of which, why […]
Holiday!
Holiday Hours Reminder
Just a heads up regarding changes to our shop’s operating hours in the coming days. 12/24/10 Christmas Eve 9am-9pm 12/25/10 Christmas Day CLOSED 12/31/10 New Year’s Eve 10am-6pm 1/1/11 New Year’s Day OPEN NORMAL HOURS […]
Anime
This Saturday: FREE Black Butler Screening
On Saturday, Decmber 11th, Forbidden Planet, in conjunction with FUNimation, will be presenting a FREE screening of episodes 1-6 of the Black Butler anime at the SoHo Gallery for Digital Art here in NYC (138 […]