Comics and Graphic Novels
Every War of the Realms Tie-In for June 5, 2019
Though my bones are old and made of dust, I have not seen the last of the War of the Realms. War of the Realms #5 As if things weren’t bad enough here on Earth, […]
Iron Man
Comics and Graphic Novels
Comic Picks of the Week 3/20/19
Spider-Man: Life Story #1 What is Spider-Man aged in real time as the Marvel universe rolled along? Spider-Man has been around for fifty-seven years. That’s a lot of Marvel history to live through. Spider-Man artist […]
Toys
Val’s Toy Chest- Marvel Restocks/DC Essentials
Marvel toys have been fast and furious this year with the release of several series of Marvel Legends back-to-back. DC hasn’t been as strong this year with their toy releases, though DC Essentials is starting […]
New Item Gallery
New Items Gallery – Tuesday July 17th
PREDAKING!!!! And some other stuff. Click any pic to enter the gallery of full-size images and read descriptions. You can find many of these items on our webstore, or better yet, here on the New Items landing […]
Toys
Val’s Toy Chest- Toy Fair 2018 Part 1- Marvel Figures
Marvel has had a great week with the release of their most recent film, Black Panther and they look as if they will rule the toy aisle this year as well. First and foremost is Hasbro’s […]
Toys
Val’s Toy Chest- Marvel Throwback/New Hot Toys
1990- I was 11 years old and had already become an avid toy collector. One of the figure series that debuted that year was Toy Biz’s Marvel Super Heroes line. I was already familiar with […]
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Mondo Marvel Pins Have Arrived!
Mondo’s Marvel character enamel pins have arrived at Forbidden Planet NYC and they’re just as beautifully designed as the pictures we’d been teased with live up to the hype. Mondo Tees artist Tom Whalen has […]
Comics and Graphic Novels
Chris’ Comics: Invincible Iron Man #1
New York Comic Con is a thing that happened, and a thing that made me grateful I have PTO at my day job, as I did not get out of bed until 10am this morning. […]
Marvel Comics
Troy’s Toy: The One when Marvel makes a come back.
Still no Wolverine Legends, or whatever the crap they’re supposed to be called. I’m hearing September at this point, supposedly comics shops exclusives, so that’s cool. Well it’s only cool if I can snag both […]
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FREE IDEAS
The top picks for this week on many reviewer’s lists will probably include IDW’s X-Files Season 10 #1, the comic book continuation of the hit paranormal investigator drama which started it all. It will probably also […]
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AN APPETIZER OF APOLOGY
Age of Ultron continues to improve, though it had little room to get worse. Issue six was very good, and shows what this series could be. I have to print a mild retraction: I gave […]
Marvel Comics
Rather be playing Bioshock Infinite, but I guess I can talk about Iron Man for a bit.
In my defense, it’s an incredible game. Also expect a full review of the “Art of Bioshock Infinite” artbook (published by Dark Horse comics!) in a week or two when I can look at it […]
Marvel Comics
The Semi-annual big ol’ look at Marvel toys
HUMBLE BRAG: PAX East is in a few days, which means next week I’ll have a fun little write up about the show next week. Insert your jealousy/rage/apathy/excitement here. Happy St. Paddy’s day FPNYC Faithful! […]
Comic Reviews
Talking Comics with the Jersey Devil
Power STILL hasn’t been restored in my cave deep in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, but this is probably due to the fact that it never had any. I knew this was going to be […]
Comic News
Comic Books!
New York Comic Con, like a vestigial tail, is now behind us. Maybe you were one of the lucky ones on the Con floor and know firsthand of the amazing announcements, projects and previews which […]
DC Comics
Injustice for all: Super Hero Lego sets are killing my wallet.
Back from Maine suckers, you miss me? No? That’s….fair. The vacation was fun, but now I’m back, pimping out toys to the masses (and peeing myself in terror at those giant crab photos, what the […]
Comic Book Movies
Merch Point
The Avengers movie is AWESOME, you have to go see it right now! Well, it was alright. Actually, I kinda’ didn’t like it. I know that’s strange, I mean, the director has done such impressive work, and […]
Comic Book Movies
The Summer of Marvel (part 2)
When we last talked, “The Avengers” wasn’t in theaters, and as of today, it has made ALL the money. Well at least a billion dollars worldwide. Will this mean cheaper Marvel comics for fans and […]
Marvel Comics
Initiative War Machine Review
By Loran For reasons I can’t explain, I just… love War Machine. He’s one of the few, if only, cases I can think of where a sidekick has a cooler uniform than the main hero. […]
Marvel Comics
Marvel Legends Extremsis Iron Man
By Loran Just like Hasbro promised, the Marvel Legends line has returned to shelves across the country! I can’t same I’m surprised by the fact that some people thought we were just going to get […]