Comic Book Movies
LunchmeatVHS.com
Screw your Blew-Ray Player, VHS is alive and well… but should I really be hipping you to this, or should I be hording all the info in fear of increased competition? Of course I’ll let […]
TV
Geek Couture
Wooo Captain! That is one sweet jacket!
Early on Mother’s Day this kid comes in and tells me he found this jacket at a thrift store for 15 bucks… with The Enterprise already painted on the back! What luck.
Stuff We Like
47 Years of Doctor Who in 6 Minutes
Though FPNYC is now officially old (but young in a cosmic sense!) we haven’t been around quite as long as Doctor Who (47 years and counting!). Catch up on nearly five decades of continuity with […]
Image Comics
Chew coming to Showtime TV
The wildly popular Image comic Chew is now in development for a Showtime television series by the Circle of Confusion company, who are also behind AMC’s The Walking Dead. The show is to be directed by Stephen […]
DC Comics
Check out Wonder Woman’s wonder wear
They released pictures of Adrianne Palicki in full costume from the NBC Wonder Woman reboot, and woo boy are the kids in an uproar. And by kids, I mean John, the self-proclaimed “resident gay who […]
Comic Book Movies
Two and a Half Stargroves
While were on the subject of Charlie Sheen loosing his job, rumor has it John Stamos might be replacing Sheen on the hit show Two and a Half Men! We all love John from his […]
Horror
Walking Dead DVD/Blu-ray Pre-order
Last night I finally finished watching AMC’s The Walking Dead television show. I know I’m way behind, but I don’t have cable and was having a hard time getting to someone’s house, with cable, who […]
Comic Book Movies
Superbowling for Dollars
The Super Bowl has come and gone. Who won? Who cares? Not I. What I do care about is all those movie trailer premiers. Now most people run down their list of most and least […]
Horror
Munsters from Mars
Rumors of The Munsters remake for NBC have been all over the internet for the past couple months. Helming this project is Bryan Fuller, the man who made death cute with shows like Dead Like […]
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 […]
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 […]
Horror
These Aren’t the Opening Credits to The Walking Dead on AMC
…but I sure wish they were. Fan Daniel Kanemoto made this.
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
Vulcan Haircut in My Mind! Vulcan Haircut in My Mind!
Seeing this this morning on Blastr immediately provoked memories of Pavement: On another note, I’m not ashamed to admit that I’ve spent well over twenty years attempting to grow Trek sideburns to disastrous effect. Which […]
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, […]
Awards
Congratulations to Dean Haspiel
The Daily Planet would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Mr. Dean Haspiel, cartoonist extraordinaire and overall swell fella, on his Emmy nomination in the category of Outstanding Main Title Design for his work […]
Cartoons
Futurama to Return With New Episodes
Good news, Gang! A new season of Futurama is on its way, set to premiere in a few short days on Comedy Central. “Futurama” is back! Everybody’s favorite zany group from the future has returned […]
TV
Comic Fans! Bored to Death? Get Paid For It!
Do you wanna make more money being bored? Sure, we all do. Now here’s your chance to turn your passion into some moolah… and possibly be immortalized on a hit television show. Comer & Gallucio […]
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 […]
Cartoons
Stan Marsh Vs. Facebook (AKA The Master Control Program)
South Park, a program which I ashamedly admit I’ve only had a modest interest in since its debut despite a circle of friends who swear by its perpetual gut-busting charms, recently aired a spot-on episode […]