Sure, the highly anticipated HOWARD THE DUCK #1 from Chip Zdarsky and Joe Quinones hits comic shops in March, but Marvel is keeping the celebration going all the way into April! Today, Marvel is proud to unveil WHAT THE DUCK?! Month – a series of 20 special variant covers for April featuring that fabulous fowl, Howard The Duck! Now is your chance to see some of the most popular artists in the industry provide their own spin on that magnificent mallard!  

This May, when everything ends, it’s time to go back to the future! Behold Secret Wars’ WARZONE! and prepare for the ride of your life in SECRET WARS 2099 #1 – the newest Secret Wars series from the acclaimed Spider-Man 2099 creative team of Peter David and Will Sliney!  

The Marvel Universe is no more. There is now only Battleworld and Marvel.com is the only place where you will be able to learn about the building blocks of the new Marvel Universe.  

STB Records is proud to present one of the smoothest splits your ears will hear this year. Sweden’s retro-laced Le’ Betre and New York’s king of doom blues, King Buffalo, have come together on a massive, riff-laden, blues blasted journey of a split on the titanic DIY record label, STB Records!  

All Them Witches, the Nashville band Native Magazine said “concoct a potent brew of dark, shrieking Delta blues that crackle with mystical psychedelic energy,” release the latest in an ongoing series of live albums with At The Garage, released independently on Feb. 10.  

Copperhead is a grimy, dusty mining town on a distant planet, not exactly the kind of place where a single mother would choose to settled down—but Clara Bronson is the new sheriff in town, and she has some secrets. And secrets won’t last long in a small town, especially when Clara’s profile is about to get a lot larger as she investigates a grisly massacre in COPPERHEAD, the new Image Comics space western series by Jay Faerber (GRAVEYARD SHIFT, NEAR DEATH) and Scott Godlewski (Dracula: The Company of Monsters).  

My love for splits is amazingly well documented, so it should come as no surprise that I am doing another one! This time its a ridiculously dirty little album out now on Horror Pain Gore Death Productions, the Solanum/Epi-Demic split, Passages to Lunacy! Part punk, part noise,a third Thrash, all crusty and gross, its coming up!  

Bestselling writer Mark Millar (Kingsman: Secret Service, Kick-Ass, WANTED) and artist Sean Gordon Murphy (PUNK ROCK JESUS, The Wake) team up for a time-travel adventure story that puts a fresh spin on the science fiction genre in CHRONONAUTS. Image Comics is pleased to reveal process pages, inks and final colors, from issue #1.  

Famed Metal Maniacs editor Katherine Ludwig has passed away from Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Katherine was the editor of Metal Maniacs, the only magazine at the time (early and mid 90’s) that covered extreme metal when no other outlets did.  

Legendary British classic rockers UFO are set to release their latest studio album A Conspiracy of Stars March 3rd in North America on SPV/Steamhammer.  Today UFO has partnered up with GuitarWorld.com the online home of Guitar World Magazine for an exclusive song premiere.  Check out a stream of the song “Run Boy Run” Here!   A Conspiracy of Stars will be available in jewel case, vinyl blue colored double LP and download through SPV/Steamhammer.  It is available for pre-order on Amazon and iTunes.   Last week, the band released a new teaser for the upcoming album.  The trailer is available for viewing HERE.   Of course you don’t need to attach more importance to this piece of news than it... 

This February, Image Comics is proud to announce the digital release of MORIARTY: ENDGAME, the new short story by the original MORIARTY team writer Daniel Corey, artist Anthony Diecidue, and letterer Dave Lanphear.  

Earth’s Mightiest Heroes converge to face a new threat thousands of years in the making in AVENGERS: MILLENNIUM, the brand new Marvel Infinite Comic series hitting digital devices this February! Fan favorite writer Mike Costa (Scarlet Spiders, A+X) along with artists Carmine Di Giandomenico (All-New X-Factor) and Geoffo & Mast (Deadpool: The Gauntlet, Iron Man: Fatal Frontier) bring you a brand new tale only the Infinite Comics format could contain!