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Nerd of Mouth with Moi
Who was a guest on Mike Lawrence and Jake Young’s Nerd of Mouth podcast last week? This guy. You can listen to the full episode here.
Jeff Ayers
Stuff We Like
The Jeff Ayers Super Awesome Fun Day Mask in action!
If you stopped by the store yesterday, which you probably did. Either because of new comics or our mega signing. You probably noticed something a little special in the newest issue of The Weekly Planet. If […]
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Star Wars Minute Podcast
Peter(r) Bonavita and Alex Robinson of The Star Wars Minute, the daily podcast in which they discuss, dissect and humorously analyze EVERY single minute of The Holy Trilogy, are up to minutes 86-90 of The […]
Marvel Comics
We got it all on FP Transmissions.
Jeff and Vita rapped about the new releases this week as Javier (of Minimate minute fame) and I slaved over a massive shipment with thousands of awesome comics including Slott’s Silver Surfer and Sandman Overture […]
Grrrrrrrrrr
Jeff Ayers Monocle Radio Interview Regarding Kamala Khan
Last night I was a guest on the Monocle Daily discussing Kamala Khan, Marvel’s newly-announced Muslim teen superhero. You can listen to it here if you skip to the 49:46 mark.
Comics and Graphic Novels
Picks of the Week June 26th 2013
…That I wrote for a New York newspaper that didn’t run it. Think I missed a deadline. As we say on Earth, “c’est la vie.” This week I’d spend my dough on: 1. Sex #4, Image Comics. The […]
Card Games
New Magic the Gathering Sorin vs Tibalt Duel Decks
New Duel Decks are releasing TODAY, MTG fans!!! These ready to play 60 card decks showcase some of the best cards in Magic history. Together the Sorin vs Tibalt Duel Decks have ten rare cards […]
Holiday!
Judge Dredd St. Pat’s T-Shirt Giveaway on FPNYC Twitter Feed
So, we’re giving away two extra large (XL) copies of this shirt away today on our Twitter feed. Don’t worry. Neither of these freebie tees are the one I’ve worn on and off to bed […]
From the Coffee Table of Jeff Ayers
Hobbit Day
On Hobbit Day 2012, here’s to my father, who I’ll be forever grateful to for reading THIS edition to me when I was 4 years old on a warm spring afternoon in front of my […]
Stuff We Like
Matt and Alec’s Bogus Video from September 18th and Me from my Desk Last Friday
Forgot to post these new Google+ Hangout videos from last week. Here’s Matt and Alec talking Sons of Anarchy, WWE, NYCC, re-creating telephone calls Alec receives from customers, Just Us League MAD toys and a […]
Comic Book Movies
The Hobbit An Unexpected Journey Poster
So this has been released: I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Seriously though, I’ve watched the current trailer about fifteen times now and I can’t tell if I’m jazzed for these films (3?!) […]
Comic Book Movies
From the Forbidden Planet NYC Stockroom- Tuesday 9/25/12
Got 28 minutes of your life to spend on Matt and I talking new arrivals, Happy #1, Space Punisher, crappy old Image Comics, movies, Star Trek the Next generation, comic cons, Mark Hamill and Corvette […]
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Matt and Jeff Live from the Forbidden Planet NYC Basement
Some goofs on our first take. The store’s wi-fi cut out for about five minutes, thus making us late for the 4pm Hangout On Air. We missed a chance to have a prominent celebrity customer […]
C.R.A.Z.Y.
Forbidden Planet is on Google+
We are indeed on Google+. Come share wonderful, geeky stuff with us! I’ll be Hanging out On Air at 4pm today… fingers crossed. Still working out the logistics, but the plan is to chat from […]
DC Comics
Forbidden Planet NYC Wants to be Invisbles Headquarters
Hell, we practically are already. Take a look around the shop sometime and you’ll realize our customers and staff comprise our own rather large Invisbles cell. The uninitiated will ask, “What is The Invisibles?” Well, […]
Comic Book Movies
E.T. 30th Anniversary Poster Art
Have you seen this yet? It got out earlier today and I gotta say I’m really digging it!!! E.T. tends to vacillate into my top 5 favorite flicks list every few years, and this new […]
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The Con is On
The New York Comic Con is this weekend, and I shall not be attending. I feel I have let myself down; and should you find yourself in the same boat, you should feel the same […]
Comic Book Movies
LOOKEE! for the 14th of October, 2010
Unca Grant as one angry, frilly-shirted badass vs. My Chemical Romance Redemption: The sequel to one of the most ambitious SF cinema flops of all time is expected to become one of the biggest films […]
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Four Years of The Weekly Planet
The Weekly Planet, FPNYC’s newsletter for in-store customers, celebrated its four year anniversary last week. Since that first sweltering summer night we hand-copied and stapled a coupla hundred 8×11 sheets of copy paper on which […]
Graphic Novels
Nightmares NYC and The Zombie Survival Guide
For those of you who’ve not experienced NIGHTMARE’s annual haunted houses the last few years here in NYC you’re really missing out. Those in the know will tell ya, the productions are top notch, the creatives involved dedicated and intensely passionate, and the whole shebang is usually a scarifying adrenaline rush rarely obtained outside of an encounter with a Lamia (watched Sam Raimi’s Drag Me to Hell last night, hence the reference… Man alive was that neat-0). NIGHTMARE creator Timothy Haskell and his crew work on this show all year long and it shows. […]