Weekanerd NYC: Comics Sell, Hulk Smashes, Lou Reed Waffles, and So It Goes

Monday, January 28

• 30% Off Everything in the Universe
  
• Jim Hanley's Universe, 4 W 33rd St, Manhattan
  

Usually comic shop sales stall out at 20-25%, so take notice of this 30% off sale for "customer appreciation month." It's a better deal than you may ever get again, so get to JHU and stock up on all those sexy hardcovers you can't afford. The sale runs through Tuesday, and it also applies to their Staten Island location, if you are so... inclined.

Hit the jump for a sitdown with Greg Pak, a meditation with Lou Reed, and a stage adaptation of some book you read in high school...

Tuesday, January 29

• Comic Book Club w/ Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente
  
• $5, 8pm @ The People's Improv Theater, 154 W 29th St, Manhattan
  

The boys that host this show are getting more press attention everyday, so go see 'em while their still in a cramped room for five bucks. This week's show features Greg Pak, mastermind of the recent World War Hulk saga, which was brilliant in concept but fell apart in execution. Ask him about that. Also on the extremely saggy couch is Fred Van Lente, founder of Evil Twin Comics.

Wednesday, January 30

• Lou Reed Discusses Hudson River Wind Meditations
  
• $25, 7pm @ Rubin Museum of Art, 150 W 17th St, Manhattan
  

"Lou Reed introduces his latest meditation compositions and discusses them with mind science scholar Rob Hogendoorn." I think that if you attended this talk and thought of Lou Reed as a Jedi Master coaching you in the ways of the Force (transcending the body and all that), you will come away with a greater understanding of yourself and the energy that surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the galaxy together.

Thursday, January 31

• Slaughterhouse-Five or: The Children's Crusade
  
• $25, 8:30pm @ 59E59, 59 E 59th St, Manhattan
  

Kurt Vonnegut's time traveling anti-war opus has been brought to the stage by Godlight Theater Company, the same folks that brought you stage adaptations of Fahrenheit 451 and A Clockwork Orange. Get some tickets and prepare yourself for what The New York Times calls "a pressure-cooker production, an intense, kaleidoscopic 90-minute tour without intermission through Vonnegut’s nonlinear narrative." Runs through February 17.

Weekanerd NYC: Live Nude Fanboys, Star Trek at Midnight, The Last Great Coen Flick

Friday, September 21, 2007

• iFanboy's 100th Pick of the Week Podcast
  
• 8pm @ Jim Hanley's Universe, 4 West 33rd St, Manhattan
  

Listening to these three dude talk comics on the iFanboy Podcast was a big part of what converted me from a casual TPB browser to an actual, in-the-store-every Wednesday comic reader. Watch them do their show live at Jim Hanley's and then head over to a local bar for the afterparty.

Saturday, September 22, 2007

• Star Trek II: Wrath of Kahn
  
• Midnight @ The Sunshine, 143 E. Houston Street, Manhattan
  

KAAAAHHN!

Sunday, September 23, 2007

• Fargo
  
• 4:30 @ MOMA's Roy and Niuta Titus Theater, 11 W. 53rd Street, Manhattan
  

The Coens greatest work? No, that would be Barton Fink. Still, Fargo - nothing to sneeze at.

Weeknerd NYC - Body Snatchers, The End of the World, Spooky Books, and Cronenberg

Monday, September 10, 2007

• Invasion of the Body Snatchers
• Various Times @ BAM Cinema, 30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn

If The Invasion didn't do it for you, give the 1978 original a shot.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

• David Pinchbeck - 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl
• 7pm @ McNally Robinson, 52 Prince Street, Manhattan

This isn't the most relaxing day to be a Manhattanite. Head over to this Nolita bookstore to be assured that the world actually won't end until 2012.

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

• Brom
  
• 5pm @ Jim Hanley's Universe, 4 W. 33rd Street, Manhattan

Gothic artist Brom celebrates the release of his new book, The Devil's Rose. It's described on BromArt.com as a "tragic western set in Hell". There isn't a single thing about that description I don't like.

Thursday, September 13, 2007

• Eastern Promises (Preview Screening with David Cronenberg)
• 7:30 @ The Director's Guild Theater, 110 W. 57th Street, Manhattan

This new Cronenberg crime thriller stars two members of geek royalty - Naomi Watts and Viggo Mortensen. Something for everyone! This is a Moving of the Moving Image event, $12 members and $18 for non.

Weekanerd NYC - Star Trek Improv, The Warriors, Super Cheap Comics

Friday, August 17, 2007

• Start Trekkin' New York
  
• 7:30pm @ The Tank, 279 Church Street btwn Franklin and White, Manhattan
  

Need new Star Trek episodes? FanFic leaving you cold? Check out these fully improvised live episodes based on the Kirk-era series. The critically acclaimed (really?) show originated in Austin, where it's still performed. Visit the NYC Crew's MySpace here.

Friday and Saturday, August 17 & 18, 2007

• NYC Noir: The Warriors and Superfly
  
• Various times @ Film Forum, 209 W. Houston Street, Manhattan

The Warriors is one of those few cult films that is even better than what you've heard. At least if you like campy machismo, gangs who aspire to Dick Tracy villain levels of visual gimmckery, and fights with baseball bats. If you played the fantastic Rockstar videogame based on the movie, you'll probably appreciate it on a deeply personal level. Superfly is pretty fun too.

Sunday, August 19, 2007

• 70% Off Back Issues (under $20) at Jim Hanley's Universe
  
• All day @ 4 West 33rd St, Manhattan or 325 New Dorp Lane, Staten Island
  

This giant back-issue sale conntinues, and will peak at a whopping 90% off on Tuesday the 21st. But Sunday will likely be your last chance to get anything good, so grab your Indy fedora and do some comic execvation.

Sales This Week At Two Major NYC Comic Shops

NYC comic fans are so spoiled. Two of Manhattan's major comic stores are having sales over the next few days.

Forbidden Planet is offering 15% off all posters in the store today and tomorrow, with this coupon. If you've ever thought of buying that really ugly poster with all the Simpsons characters standing in a big clump, now is the time.

Jim Hanley's Universe is having a huge sale on back issues under $20, starting on August 13th with 10% off, and then knocking off another %10 percent per day all the way to 90% off on August 21st. Yow! Forget that poster sale, buy these in bulk and wallpaper your apartment!