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Bill Gates: Weather Wizard?!
While having my morning coffee Today did a story on how Bill Gates seems to think he can control hurricanes. They also made a reference to him as the Weather Wizard. Five U.S. Patent and […]
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The Daily Planet Presents: Thursday Walk of Shame #1 with Jeff Ayers and Dave Press.
I shot this idea at Jeff earlier this week of doing a Basement Tapes-like weekly column where he and I talk about this Wednesday’s comics and other comic related events the morning after. Hence, “Thursday’s […]
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Today, in the news.
Well, I guess last night. People are lining up for “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince” by the thousands. Its already shattered the overnight Box Office Record previously held by “The Dark Knight”. And […]
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John Ostrander needs your help.
Lately, on the Twitter ‘verse (which is kind of a universe unto itself), people have been posting to help out John Ostrander, legendary comics writer, who has been suffering from glaucoma for over twenty years. […]
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Superman and Batman defeated by NYPD.
Apparently, Superman hits girls, according to the New York Post. Last night, two friends decided to dress up as the World’s Finest for laughs and were approached by New York’s Finest asking if they had […]
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To Your Planet, Welcome
I here am new, but you are known as being Ayers of Forbidden Planet. So my name is Jeff Ayers and, by way of introduction, I ‘ve worked for Forbidden Planet for the last fourteen(ish) […]
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FREE COMICS: Mitch Breitweiser’s ‘The Futurists’.
Yesterday, “Captain America” artist Mitch Breitweiser and pal Patrick Stiles unveiled a new webcomic titled “The Futurists“. Set during the English occupation of India in the early 1800s, the webcomic is about the search for […]
Awards
Harvey Awards Announced.
The Harvey Awards were released earlier to today. Via release, the details include: Nominations for the Harvey Awards are selected exclusively by creators – those who write, draw, ink, letter, color, design, edit or are […]
Conventions
News roundup from WW Philly and HeroesCon.
Last weekend, there was quite a bit of news coming out of Philadelphia and Charlotte, and this wouldn’t be much of a news site if we didn’t give you SOME idea of what happened. The […]
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Good morning, I think introductions are in order.
By David Press. Welcome to the first day of The Daily Planet! For those of you who have visited Forbidden Planet the store in Union Square over the years, consider this your daily update on […]
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Welcome To Sibuya-Cho
By Mat K. Okay, all of you who keep up with me and my rants and reviews, remember the other week when I was going on about how 20th Century Boys has been falling behind […]
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Unkiedev’s Amazing Stuff
By Unkie Dev I was hit on the head by a flying plank this weekend and ended up in a magical land of Ez. All I had to do was find the enchanted Wizard of […]
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Frank and Elana’s Amazing Bridal Registry @ Forbidden Planet*
Congratulations to Frank and Elana on their upcoming marriage! We’ve got their registry right here, so take a peek at what their shelves are missing…
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Birthday Wish
If I had one birthday wish this year it would be that all the children to join hands and sing together in the spirit of harmony and peace. If I had two wishes this birthday […]
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Comic Book Guy
“This will not do!” It always amazes me peoples’ varied perceptions of our cumulative geekiness as comic and SF fans. And were you in my position you, too, would struggle with the connotations people in […]
Comic Reviews
Call Me Stupid
“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture – it’s a really stupid thing to want to do.” -Elvis Costello An anonymous email received in response to last week’s column- wherein I recalled the laughable […]
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Quality Control
Wisegeek.com describes quality control as: …a process employed to ensure a certain level of quality in a product or service. It may include whatever actions a business deems necessary to provide for the control and […]
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