More Cha-bot

Morgan Pielli | January 25, 2012

By Devin T. Quin Forget about elections, snow, wild tigers ripping at your face, bills, those same tigers ripping at your legs, problems with your girlfriend, problems with your boyfriend, problems with your tiger, global warming, house fires, the mumps, the whooping cough, rubella, zombie bites, swarms of bees, bees and tigers mating to breed [...]

Deadman on Camus

Morgan Pielli | January 18, 2012

By Unkiedev High fives for DC! High fives for everybody! I’m high right now, and I have the emotional maturity of a five year old! What am I high on?! THIS WEEK’S COMICS! …and rabies meds. We’re into the fifth issues of many NEW 52 titles…some of which are being cancelled, while new titles are [...]

Cover Bland

Morgan Pielli | January 11, 2012

By Unkiedev This past weekend I picked up a back issue for a strange little 70’s monster comic called Creatures on the Loose #13 from Marvel. WHY? Because it featured a shaggy white monstrosity in a gold skirt walking out of a rainbow colored television while scaring the beejeezus out of some square. This monster [...]

New Year’s Read Solutions

Morgan Pielli | December 28, 2011

By Unkiedev Welcome to the Weekly Planet, Forbidden Planet’s in-shop (and online) newsletter! The Planet is always jam-packed with fun recommendations and product highlights, and this week WOULD be no exception t’were it not New Years Week. New Years isn’t a time for regrets, and that’s why New Years resolutions should be made in the [...]

Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a Time

Morgan Pielli | December 21, 2011

By Unkiedev In 1995 director Lars Von Trier, tired of the special effects and genre tropes he felt were ruining cinema, created a list of rules for filmmakers to follow in order to make superior, modern artistic worth. This new style for film-making was called “Dogma 95.” Rules like “Filming must be done on location,” [...]

Unkiedev’s Amazing Stuff #1

Morgan Pielli | November 2, 2011

Unkiedev’s Amazing Stuff Why haven’t I thought of this before? You guys must be super bored of reading my crumble-down, old timey column of words, thoughts, and comic book related highlights. THAT is why the Flash went to an alternative universe and got a glimpse at an ALL NEW, ALL DIFFERENT Unkiedev. A glimpse so [...]

Life is Like a Hurricane

Morgan Pielli | October 19, 2011

By Unkiedev With the New York Comic Con behind us, what do we have to fill the thermos of our fickle attention spans? How about some choice graphic novels from this weeks new comics! DUCK TALES: RIGHTFUL OWNERS, Warren Spector (W),  BOOM! Studios. Comics is too big a field to make statements like “Comics fans [...]

Countdown to NYCC part 2

Chris | October 13, 2011

by Chris Troy Hey FPNYC faithful, in a few short hours, yours truly will be at the Javitis Center, fan-gasming over the nerdfest that is the 2011 New York Comic Con. Despite being a show veteran, this is my favorite convention of the year, and I’m really excited to see what the likes of Marvel, [...]

The Good, The Bad, and the Far too Pretty

Morgan Pielli | September 28, 2011

By Unkiedev Back after a week off during which I dressed up as a pirate, drew silly comics, and tackled a fire in my cave. Some careless animal tried to toast pine cones in my toaster while I was gone and, predictably, they got jammed in the slot.  It was probably that jerk, the bullfinch. [...]

Have You Considered Letting Justice League #1 Into Your Heart?

Morgan Pielli | August 31, 2011

By Unkiedev We’re just jumping in head first like a seal into a wood chipper! Dark Horse has the Goon #35, Faith and Angel #1 and a brand new Star Wars original graphic novel called Chewbacca & the Slavers of the Shadowlands. Chewie hates slavers almost as much as Mr. T pities a fool, and [...]