The final issue of Pretty Deadly: The Rat is out this week. With that in mind, I want to look at the first two installments of the series, The Shrike and The Bear. The comic […]
In the near future, none of us will have only one job. We’ll have one big job and a couple small jobs, or eighteen small jobs that amount to almost one big one. The “gig […]
The Weatherman was one of our bestselling comics of 2018 and now the first chapter of this exciting new series has been collected in trade paperback. Come celebrate its release with us as Forbidden Planet […]
The following originally ran in the Weekly Planet 6/27/18. You can read the issue in question in Sex Criminals Volume 5. Sex is taboo. Birds do it. Bees do it. You can’t walk down 4th […]
Writer/creator W. Maxwell Prince is coming to Forbidden Planet NYC on June 20th at 6pm to sign copies of his new graphic novel Ice Cream Man! Published by Image Comics, this new series was a […]
The following originally ran in the Weekly Planet 6/13/18. Imagine if you will a dystopian future where your personal information is no longer secure online and everything about you is being sold off to the […]
Join us at Forbidden Planet NYC on June 13th 2018 for a special signing with writer Jody LeHeup (Shirtless Bear-Fighter) and artist Nathan Fox (Fluorescent Black) celebrating their new comic The Weatherman published by Image! […]
Sometimes we want a little escape in our lives. The world we live in is one we become too intimate with and it’s nice to read about a place far away. Maybe a world like […]
Gideon Falls reunites one of the best creative teams of the last several years in writer Jeff Lemire and artist Andrea Sorrentino. This is the first foray for Lemire into the realm of horror and […]
Happy Valentine’s Day! Well, for those of you who like Valentine’s Day. To the rest of you…Happy Singles Awareness Day! You know how love can sometimes seem completely unfair? At this time on the calendar […]
Dave Lizewski became the vigilante known as Kick-Ass. The bullied bumbling high schooler became the hero he always dreamed of being…sort of. I mean, for a little while until something would go really wrong and […]
The question every employee gets asked at Forbidden Planet multiple times daily is, “Is the new Saga out?” Finally, all of us can tell you relentless readers out there, “YES!” Get your tissues and favorite […]
Rocket Girl Vol. 2 launches onto shelves this week. Will the timey-wimey, wibbly-wobbly saga of DaYoung Johansson have a happy ending? Will the future be saved? Which future? And what qualifies as saved? The answers […]
Volume 2 of Rocket Girl releases on Wednesday the 6th of December, and creators Amy Reeder and Brandon Montclare will once again be signing at FPNYC to celebrate. They’ll also sign anything else in their […]
‘Tis the season for a crazy drunken ex-cop turned hit-man to track down a monstrous child killer in a Santa suit. And a tiny blue horse called Happy. It’s just another twisted hilarious tale from […]
Another New Comic Book Day means another Image Comics series debut! This Wednesday we welcome to our shelves Coyotes #1from creators Sean Lewis (who brought us the kickass The Few, which if you haven’t read, […]
This week a new edition of the biblically epic The Goddamned comes out and since I missed out on singing its praises the first time, I’m grateful to have a second chance to do so […]
It begins with a tale as old as time (I guess modern times to be fair): Boy meets girl (well, boy meets girl online). Boy falls in love with girl. Girl inspires him to be […]
Tons of new toys and toy restocks today in our gallery (and our store!). It’s also New Comic Book Day, so here’s a plethora of product coming atcha. I can’t possibly show you all that […]
Arguably the most prolific creator in the comics industry today is at it again. Jeff Lemire, in an ambitious and, reportedly, very personal project, spins this yarn about a family from the small factory town […]
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