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Suicide Girls Geekology at Forbidden Planet
On October 30th at 6, Forbidden planet is being invaded by the Suicide Girls to celebrate the release of their new book Geekology. New books, beautiful people, do I need to say more?
Articles by Lindsay Johnson
Anime
Epic Anime Beatdown
From time to time I travel to anime conventions. While they are fun for anyone who is into this sort of thing there are some things you have to watch out for. I don’t just […]
Dark Horse
Dark Horse Set To Bring The US Lastest CLAMP Manga!
Over the years Dark Horse has done a fantastic job of bringing American fans the best in manga and translated novels (like the Vampire Hunter D series, one of my very favorite series). It’s no […]
Memorabilia
One more reason to love Gatsby
Most good books get adapted into nearly every conceivable form these days. If there isn’t a movie there is probably a TV show. If either of those aren’t around chances are a comic book was […]
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 […]
Manga
New Manga Releases: Time To Pop Your Meds
By Mat K. Any one who ever bought manga or anime knows that as far as your wallet is concerned, crack is cheaper. I’m sure you’ve heard the very phrase, it’s been on wallets and […]
Anime
K-On! The Manga Review
Here it is. My first manga review. As the title probably gave away it’s for the first volume release of K-On. If you have no idea who or what K-On! is I highly suggest you […]
Anime
The Awesome-ness of Haruhi Suzumiya!
Any Joe Schmoe on the street could tell you without question that Harry Potter is a publishing phenomenon, but if you asked him about The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, he’d look at you like you […]
Manga
New Manga Releases Jan 2011: Yay Books!
By Mat K. The long drought is over. And hopefully the beginning of February will prove as fruitful in manga releases as the end of January, but we have quite a few bits of awesome […]
Comic Reviews
Indepentent Comic Publishers With Amazing Stuff
By Unkiedev Oh good grief, here we go again. One thing I LIKE about independent comic book publishers is they have to have better ideas to stay afloat. If the small presses can’t tell stories […]
Manga
New Manga Releases Still Few
By Mat K. Okay, after last week’s shrunken manga release list, we were really hoping for many awesome titles. Unfortunately the exact reverse is true. This week is even smaller. There are three, count them, […]
Comics and Graphic Novels
New Comics To Take Your Money
By Unkiedev Boom-shanka! I decided the cave I lived in needed a little refurbishing so I stole me a shovel and got to diggin’. Now I live in a swanky duplex cave with a top […]
Manga
Slow January For Manga
By Mat K. I’m opening this week with sorry for missing everyone last week. There was a lot of post New Year’s counting and inventory that needed to be done, so I passed the torch […]
Comic Reviews
Spawn #200
By Unkiedev This week the biggest star in the planetarium of comic books is Spawn #200. I think there are more variant covers to this book than there are original partners in Image. So what […]
Manga
So You Want To Be A Manga-ka?
by Shannon Hochman Two high school kids who drew a manga walk into the offices of Jump magazine, certain they’ve created the next biggest thing. The editor quietly reads over the pages they slaved so […]
Comics and Graphic Novels
New Comics of the New Year!
By Devin T. Quin Welcome to 2011, where a whole new calendar YEAR of fun comic book activities awaits us! We should definitely start planning out our itinerary now so that we don’t miss out […]
Manga
New Manga: TokyoPop Party, Farewell 2010!
By Mat K. So, there’s not actually any kind of special TokyoPop event going on, so much as its just a major release week for them, and kudos to them for that. After last week’s […]
Manga
Manga For A More Mature Reader
By Mat K. There are quite a few sensual books coming out, from the final volume of Sundome, to the sexy vampires of Dance In The Vampire Bund, to a fair amount of yaoi, which […]
Anime
Kuroshitsuji: One Hell of a Butler
by Shannon Hochman Imagine for a second that your entire family was murdered and you were presented with a chance to seek revenge. Would you do it no matter what the cost? Would you pay […]
Comics and Graphic Novels
New Manga Releases: Super Viz Fun Time
By Mat K. As you may have been able to extrapolate from the title, this is another Viz heavy week, and none too soon. Everything this week with the exception of two books is either […]