Events
WHITE SUITS #1 / ZERO vol. 1 Signing!
Frank Barbiere (Five Ghosts) & Toby Cypress (The Tourist) will be on hand to sign the 1st issue of their brand new Dark Horse series THE WHITE SUITS. Ales Kot (Secret Avengers) will also be […]
Month: January 2014
Comics and Graphic Novels
Troy’s Toys But With Comics 1/22/14 edition
So we’re all on board for killing the winter/the snow yes? Because we need to. Hawkeye #16 Matt Fraction/Annie Wu/Matt Hollingsworth Marvel, $2.99, 20 pages Hawkeye‘s back this week! Sorta….David Aja still needed time to […]
Card Games
MTG: Born of the Gods, Coming Soon!
So far, Theros has been an amazing Magic: The Gathering block, with killer mechanics like Devotion, Bestow and Heroic- and with all the spoilers released for next week, it looks as if Born of the […]
Comics and Graphic Novels
February 5th Signing Just Got Better
By now everybody know that we have a signing this coming Wednesday with Dan Goldman for his new collection Red Light Properties, but we just sweetened the pot. Not only will we have Mr. Goldman […]
Comic News
February 12th, Egos and the Bunker
On February 12th, starting at 7p.m., Forbidden Planet will have the creative team behind Image comics new hit series EGOS; Stuart Moore and Gus Storms, in-store signing copies of issue #1 and #2. We will […]
Comic News
My Last Column
A FINAL GOODBYE Forbidden Planet is my favorite comic book store in New York City, it always has been and hopefully always will. I say “Hopefully” because I hold dislike definitive blanket statements… I mean, […]
Comic Reviews
Yet Again, Snow.
I’m writing this while the Seahawks are winning the NFC championship game, and even in my quiet neighborhood I can hear my neighbors yelling and fireworks being set off. Or people are rioting and looting, […]
Other Topics
Troy’s Toys, but with Comics: A Return to Form
DID YOU KNOW: Apartment hunting in New York City is THE PITS FPNYC Faithful. My personal problems aside, it was a really good week for comics! Shall I give you the details of the goodness? […]
Comics and Graphic Novels
Late to the Party: Chris reads “The Wake: Volume 1”
The Wake Volume 1 Scott Snyder/Sean Murphy/Matt Hollingsworth Vertigo/DC, Collects issue 1-5 Hey look, I’m starting the year off looking at a DC book not called Sandman, this really is a brave new world! In […]
Image Comics
Troy’s Toys, But With Comics- The Sexy Start of the New Year
So the Image Expo 2014 has come and gone and man, screw them. I have a limited budget for comics stuff because living in New York isn’t cheap, and they go and announce like 3 […]
Comics and Graphic Novels
Dan Goldman Signing Red Light Properties February 5th
Date has been changed to FEBRUARY 5TH “Ghost stories, five-alarm family dramas, urban shamanism and a downturned housing market all compete for the attention of the husband/wife owners of Miami’s only exorcism-and-real estate agency Red […]
Horror
Troma’s Return to Nuke Em’ High NYC Premiere!
Everyone drop what they’re doing! Troma’s newest flick Return To Nuke Em’ High Vol. 1 is finally hitting theaters in NYC! Why is this important to me? Well I love Troma… duh! But for reals… […]
Comic Reviews
Best For Last
The last comic books of 2013 have GOT to be the best, right? I mean, these are the comics the industry has been leading up too this entire time. Logically, all comic books up till […]
Comics and Graphic Novels
Troy’s Toy but with Comics: #1 with a tie!
Well look at that, apparently there’s a tie. And I’m sure it has everything nothing to do with issue 7 of one of these series dropping this past Tuesday. #1a) Saga Brian K Vaughn/Fiona Staples […]
Comics and Graphic Novels
Troy’s Toys, But with Comics Best of 2013 List Part 2
In retrospect, a short title would have been nice. Also happy New Year! Welcome back to me coasting for cash-money. As I said last time, this is the “Matt Fraction Power Hour” portion of the […]