This year, celebrate Pride Month with one of comics’ most iconic super hero families in WICCAN & HULKLING: RAID OF ULTRON #1, an all-new Marvel’s Voices one-shot hitting stands May 27. The special spotlights fan-favorite couple Wiccan and Hulkling along with their amazing—and complex—family including Scarlet Witch, Vision, Speed, and Viv Vision. Bringing together an incredible lineup of superstar LGBTQIA+ talent and rising stars, WICCAN & HULKLING: RAID OF ULTRON #1 will feature stories by Wyatt Kennedy, Josh Trujillo, Marvel’s Stormbreaker Luciano Vecchio, Zoe Tunnell, Rachael Stott and more! The saga will spotlight the importance of re-centering community in times of darkness as Wiccan and Hulkling... 

Few live albums capture spectacle, danger, and pure heavy-metal theater the way Lizzy Borden – The Murderess Metal Road Show does. Recorded at the height of the band’s rise, this ferocious live set documents Lizzy Borden in full command—blades flashing, crowds roaring, and American metal exploding from the Sunset Strip straight onto wax.  

2026 marks a powerful cultural intersection: the 40th anniversary of Run-DMC and Aerosmith’s “Walk This Way,” the 35th anniversary of Public Enemy and Anthrax’s “Bring the Noise,” and the 33rd anniversary of the landmark Judgment Night soundtrack that hard-wired rap-rock into the mainstream. As these milestones reignite conversations about creativity, collaboration, and cultural fusion, WHEN ROCK MET HIP-HOP: How Run-DMC, Aerosmith, Anthrax, the Beastie Boys & More Shattered Boundaries and Rewired Culture by Steven Blush arrives as the definitive chronicle of how rock and hip-hop collided and reshaped the cultural landscape forever.  

This summer, the Avengers undergo a transformation the likes of which hasn’t been seen since Avengers: Disassembled in ARMAGEDDON, a new Marvel Comics event from Chip Zdarsky. The superstar writer is currently laying key groundwork for ARMAGEDDON in his acclaimed run of CAPTAIN AMERICA as well as WOLVERINE: WEAPONS OF ARMAGEDDON, a prelude series launching later this month. Today, fans can see what’s to come in both titles this May, just before ARMAGEDDON arrives the following month.  

In a major crossover between the comic and film worlds, Blumhouse-Atomic Monster is adapting the breakout supernatural thriller comic book series, THE EXORCISM AT 1600 PENN. An IDW Publishing original horror from creator and writer, Hannah Rose May, and artist, Vanesa Del Rey, the acclaimed series will make the leap from page to screen in what is a landmark collaboration between one of horror’s most influential studios and one of the genre’s boldest emerging storytelling voices.  

Progressive rock group EchoVerse introduces the next chapter of the band with their forthcoming sophomore album, Fall Towards The Sky, due out on March 27th, 2026. Along with the album announcement comes the first single and video for “Radical Rebirth,” blending Christian spirituality with modern progressive and hard-rock influences.  

MEGADETH have good reason to celebrate. The Grammy Award-winning and multi-platinum metal titans’ self-titled final studio album—released last week (January 23) to worldwide critical acclaim—has exploded onto the charts at #1 on the Billboard 200 in their native U.S. (highest previous position #2). This debut also marks the band’s 9th Billboard Top 200 album.  

Poison Ruin’s Hymns from the Hills ambitiously rewrites the very rules of what punk is capable of achieving, pushing their sound into expansive new terrains without sacrificing an ounce of the bleak symbolism and uncompromising aggression that first established them as an urgent new voice in the world of extreme music.  

Amazon’s Prime Video has picked up an eight-episode show based on the acclaimed graphic novel series Sex Criminals by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Kumail Nanjiani, Emily V. Gordon (The Big Sick) and Tze Chun (Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai) are co-creators of the series, and Nanjiani is also set for an acting role.  

While long enshrined amongst the hallowed halls of metal, after nearly three and a half decades, Cryptopsy are as insatiable as ever. After cracking year-end lists at Decibel, Metal Injection and BangerTV with their latest Billboard-shaking album, An Insatiable Violence, the most vile band in death metal were just crowned headliners of the longest-running heavy metal tour in North America. Now, as they continue to bang heads on their current European tour, the Canadian legends are proud to add another honor to their Hall of Fame career.  

One week after announcing their 15th studio album ONE, GRAMMY® Award–nominated metal icons Sevendust return with their first new music of 2026, releasing the powerful new single “Is This The Real You.” The track showcases the unmistakable sound that has propelled the band to the top of rock radio throughout their career.  

The Ultimate Universe may be coming to an end, but its legacy lives on in REBORN: ULTIMATE IMPACT! Following the final issue of ULTIMATE ENDGAME in April, REBORN: ULTIMATE IMPACT will reveal the Ultimate Universe’s lasting effect on the main Marvel Universe.