VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), a premier company in the fields of publishing, animation distribution, and global entertainment licensing, announces the latest edition of the BLEACH anime series on Blu-ray with the home media release of Set 2 on January 31st.  

Orange County, CA based Hard Rock outfit NEW YEARS DAY are preparing to hit the road for their first tour of 2017. The band will be direct support to Attila on the upcoming “Let’s Get Abducted” Tour in the US. New Years Day continue to tour throughout North America and internationally on the strength of their third studio album, Malevolence (2015).  

Image Comics is pleased to reveal interior preview artwork from the forthcoming ROYAL CITY—a new ongoing monthly series written and illustrated by New York Times bestselling author Jeff Lemire (DESCENDER, Sweet Tooth) and set to launch in March 2017. First announced in Entertainment Weekly this Spring, ROYAL CITY promises to be a sprawling, serialized graphic novel that will chart the lives, loves, and losses of a troubled family and a vanishing town across three decades.  

Once upon a time, the Thunderbolts were the Masters of Evil, villains posing as heroes. Two decades later, their leader has returned…and Baron Zemo will reclaim the legacy of the Thunderbolts – with the infinite power of the cosmic cube!  

Superstar creators Mark Millar (Kingsman: The Secret Service) and Greg Capullo (Batman) join forces to create the sci-fi story of the year—REBORN. A beautiful hardcover edition from Image Comics will collect issues 1-6 and hit stores this May.  

Extreme metal giants ARCH ENEMY have released a new live video for the song “War Eternal”. The video was filmed at Wacken 2016 and is featured on the band’s upcoming live DVD/Blu-ray “As The Stages Burn!”, which comes out March 31st  

 Penny Arcade, to host one of the internet’s largest gaming communities, and ReedPOP, the world’s leading producer of pop culture events, announced PAX Unplugged, its first tabletop gaming focused event, in front of tens of thousands of attendees today at PAX South. PAX Unplugged, the sixth addition to the international line-up of PAX events, will debut at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, November 17 – 19, 2017.  

The war between Mutantkind and Inhumanity heats up and is taking the comics industry by storm! The blockbuster Inhumans vs. X-Men event is just past the halfway point, and you haven’t seen anything yet! Today, Marvel is pleased to present a special trailer for the action packed series, hot off the heels of INHUMANS VS. X-MEN #3 – on sale now!  

Greek meditative dark trance/ambient/shamanic act SHIBALBA has signed a record deal with Agonia Records. The band is preparing to release a new studio album titled “Psychostasis – Death Of Khat” in April.  

Slo Burn, Unida, Hermano, Vista Chino, the former singer of Kyuss – yes, desert legend JOHN GARCIA may rightfully be considered as the ultimate incarnation of stoner rock. His first solo album and opus eponymous from 2014 is followed roughly three years later by ‘The Coyote Who Spoke In Tongues’, a comparatively relaxed and purely acoustic affair, set to be released on Friday, January 27th 2017 on Napalm Records!  

What do you get when a secret government agency forms a super team comprised completely of bad guys? – “Worst. Heroes. Ever”! Straight from the DC Comic’s summer blockbuster Suicide Squad comes Harley Quinn.  

Dynamite Entertainment has published some of the most celebrated stories in the long history of the Turok, Solar, Magnus, and Doctor Spektor publications. Now, the publisher will introduce a new era for these long-running comic book staples with The Sovereigns #0, the oversized 48-page launch issue priced at $1.00 retail as the perfect jumping-on point for new readers!