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OSLO, Norway – May 23rd, 2019 – Hours of gameplay, new locations to visit and a new leading character await fans of the award-winning tactical adventure game Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden, as Funcom and The Bearded Ladies today announce the upcoming expansion Seed of Evil.
The turn-based tactical adventure game Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden received critical acclaim for its gameplay, artwork and captivating characters. Set in post-apocalyptic Sweden, the player controls a group of mutants searching through the ruins of civilization for salvation or simply something to eat. Using a mixture of stealth and combat strategy, while evolving your characters through a series of interesting mutations, is paramount to overcoming the evil that is threatening to eradicate what is left of decent society.
A new menace is looming in the expansion. Powerful and ominous roots have emerged and seem to be taking control over the minds of friends and foes alike. Fortunately, a new hero has arrived, and players can now add Big Khan the moose to their squad of mutants. He is not only skilled at landing critical hits but comes with the unique mutations Ground Pound and Flame Puke, giving the option to apply a more diverse playstyle in order to succeed.
The expansion and the retail release on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch was originally set to release on June 25th. The new release date is now July 30th. The expansion and the full game will also be available digitally on all platforms.
PC gamers can preorder the expansion on Steam later today for $ 14.99 (pricing may differ across territories). A Digital Deluxe Edition will also be released today on Steam, consisting of both the original game and the upcoming expansion. The Deluxe Edition will also be available in retail.
SAN DIEGO, CA (May 22, 2019) – IDW Publishing is proud to announce the latest addition to their Marvel Action line of comics aimed at middle grade readers: Captain Marvel! From the stellar creative team of writer Sam Maggs (Marvel: Fearless and Fantastic! Female Super Heroes Save the World), artist Sweeney Boo (My Little Pony), and colorist Brittany Peer, the first thrilling chapter hits stores in August!
Carol Danvers’ quiet night with BFF Jessica Drew (Spider-Woman) takes a catastrophic turn when Manhattan’s bodegas are suddenly overrun by a host of angry felines! And not just any felines—Flerkens, the most terrifying, pocket-dimension-holding, tentacle-devouring kitty-look-alikes in the entire universe! Can Captain Marvel overcome the formidable foes before it’s too late?
“I feel so privileged to help launch Captain Marvel’s solo title for Marvel Action,” says Sam Maggs. “Carol has always been my favorite super hero; I love how she’s truly come into her own, culturally, and is finally being widely-recognized as the star that she is. Being able to write for Carol is the most exciting and terrifying thing that’s ever happened to me. I can’t wait to share this arc with everyone!”
Sweeney Boo says, “This comic is for everyone! If you have seen Captain Marvel’s movie and want more of her, and if you are a cat lover, this is definitely for you. This title has everything – it’s funny and sweet, it has powerful moments, and it’s absolute cat madness!”
“Working with Sam and Sweeney on a story featuring one of the most iconic super heroes of our time has been a dream,” says Megan Brown, assistant editor. “I adore Carol — she’s strong, capable, funny, and someone that anyone can look up to. In Marvel Action, we’re also highlighting the strength of her friendship with Jessica Drew, and it’s been such a positive, uplifting experience bringing this rock-solid bond between two absolutely amazing ladies to life.”
Marvel Action: Captain Marvel will be available with a regular cover by Sweeney Boo, plus a special retailer incentive variant by Brianna Garcia (Disney Princess).
For information on how to secure copies of Marvel Action: Captain Marvel, please contact your local comic shop or visit www.comicshoplocator.com to find a store near you.
Pop-Culture Spectrum has previously provided the official press release for the upcoming Harry and The Potters album “Lumos“. Here we express your insistence on getting your hands on it.
The Kickstarter ends at 8 PM Eastern on May 23rd, 2019 and is fully funded at over $40K. The album itself is recorded and ready for your ears. The Kickstarter essentially a pre-order method to cover physical CDs, Vinyl and even amazing discography USB drives.
We’ve been a long supporter of Wizard rock here, a fan of a variety of performers and groups. One of the greatest things about the genre is that while based upon J.K. Rowling’s Potterverse in lyrics, most if not all songs tend to work outside of their trappings as both rollicking good numbers and words that explore material beyond its base creation.

The same can be said of this new album, 13 years since their last, from Harry and The Potters. While the album is clearly based in chapters and sequences from the last book The Deathly Hallows, as the press release they clearly reached further than this. What the test of an album like this though are the songs just good songs, no matter what they are about. For that I’ve chosen to go the track-by-track mini review method.
1-Lumos: A ditty that starts soft and light but then goes heavy with chill spoken word. A great intro track.
2-You’re Not The Wizard: Seems like an 80’s synth pop jazzy with heavy drums as well.
3-Good Riddance: A melancholy grunge style.
4-The Trace: The first official single released, it falls under folk rock and early 00’s alternative in its feels.
5-On The Importance of Media Literacy: This track reminded me of something you might hear in the middle of a 90’s Rom Com when things seem their darkest but somehow you know it might all be okay.
6-Hermione’s Army: There’s some what sounds like Sax in this number with a very steady drum beat, the singing style and bass line reminds me of something that might happen had Devo teamed with B-52s.
7-What Happened to the Cat?: Possibly my favorite track on the album. It’s slow and drifty evoking Smashing Pumpkins in ways. It’s the shortest track on the album at 1:35 with very spare lyrics… I didn’t even know we had a cat… but it just hits.
8-The Banality of Evil: Very folky, the kind of sound one generally feels when thinking of Wizard Rock in it’s purest best sense.
9-Gone Campin’: A country like ditty you might hear sung over a campfire, roasting marshmallows as the title suggests.
10-Where’s Ron?: A sweet smooth piano duet with Kimya Dawson on co-vocals. Calm, relaxed, a lovely follow up to Gone Campin’ if taking the album as the story it is telling from Potter, but as every other track powerful. The Kimya Dawson vocals definitely add a gravitas to the importance of this album.
11-No Pureblood Supremacy: This track is super nerdy and folksy pop, building and building at speed as it goes along until a headrushing instrumental till returning back to its singing line.
12-Voldemort in Your Head: The second shortest track on the album, melancholy with short bursts of wild energy.
13-The Sword, The Cup, and the Dragon: A very dance style track with some rollicking drums, percussion and stark synth lines. This one will get your body moving.
14-The Cloak: A very fast track, not truly dancing, but your foot will start tapping and with invokes of the prior track.
15-The Stone: The longest track on the album at 9 minutes and 30 seconds. It has epic orchestral tones with what seems accordion. It is slow and deep for the entirety of the song… giving you the feel the end is near but not quickly.
16- The Wand: The final track. Lyrics definitely heavy on the spoilers ending for Potterverse, but also a very heroic triumphant rock ditty. Killing isn’t the only way to win indeed!
As a whole, this album truly goes through a variety of style but in the end is clearly a modern rock album inspired and influenced by everything that has probably come into their sphere in the 12 years since Deathly Hallows and the 4 since their last short ep. It is highly entertaining even for a non-Potter fan as all three pior albums from the group have been. So get to that Kickstarter now or you’ll have to wait till the digital album is out for all on June 21st.
By now, you’ll know PCS in a major supporter of BOOM Studios. BookExpo will have lots of amazing stuff for booksellers, librarians, and press, but the small line-up for the Expo is great. Boom also some amazing new books coming up in August as well further in October including new original works and GNs as well new stuff from their license franchises such as Cartoon Network & Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
Acclaimed Publisher Debuts New Booth & Exclusives in May 2019
LOS ANGELES, CA (May 22, 2019) – BOOM! Studios announced today their presence at BookExpo from May 29-31, 2019 at the Javits Center in New York, NY, with acclaimed authors R.L. Stine (Just Beyond: The Scare School), Lev Grossman (The Magicians: Alice’s Story), and Victor LaValle (Victor LaValle’s Destroyer).
The award-winning publisher will debut an all-new booth (#1748) environment with special advance readers copies of hotly anticipated graphic novels including Just Beyond: The Scare School by R.L. Stine and Nicole and Kelly Matthews, The Magicians: Alice’s Story by Lev Grossman, Lilah Sturges and Pius Bak, as well as Victor LaValle’s Destroyer bookmarks and much more.
Throughout the weekend, attendees will also have an opportunity to speak one-on-one with the writers behind some of the most anticipated graphic fiction of 2019 during signing events including:
Visit the award-winning publisher’s booth for the exclusive chance to meet your favorite creators. Fans will have the opportunity to get exclusive merchandise signed by these special guests at the BOOM! Studios booth. Signing schedule below:
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
1:00PM-2:00PM Meet The Author: Lev Grossman
3:00PM-4:00PM Meet The Author: Victor LaValle
Thursday, May 30, 2019
11:00AM-12:00PM Meet The Author: R.L. Stine
1:00PM-2:00PM Meet The Author: Lev Grossman
3:00PM-4:00PM Meet The Author: Victor LaValle
Friday, May 31, 2019
12:00PM-1:00PM Meet The Author: R.L. Stine
“BOOM! Studios is excited to bring three of the biggest writers in modern fiction – R.L. Stine, Lev Grossman and Victor LaValle – to BookExpo to meet with fans,” said Arune Singh, VP Marketing, BOOM! Studios. “Our company is committed to the idea that comic books are for anyone so we make them for everyone – and we know that everyone who visits the BOOM! Studios booth will find their first – or their next – obsession in our wide variety of offerings.”
For more news on BOOM! Studios at BookExpo, stay tuned to www.boom-studios.com and follow @boomstudios on Twitter.

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This series has barely even started and the excitement level for the first three issues alone should be super high. It’s going to be so cool seeing how ANGEL would exist in the world of 2019.
The Vampire With A Soul Reimagined In Thrilling and Historic New Comic Book Series in July 2019

LOS ANGELES, CA (May 20, 2019) – BOOM! Studios in partnership with 20th Century Fox Consumer Products today revealed the cover of the latest issue of the highly praised reimagining of the brooding vampire – ANGEL #3 by all-star creative team of acclaimed writer Bryan Edward Hill (Batman, American Carnage) and Gleb Melnikov (Saban’s Go Go Power Rangers), along with visionary writer and director Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Marvel’s The Avengers), available July 31, 2019.
Meet Angel – a vampire cursed with a soul who has spent centuries protecting humanity from the monsters that lurk in the dark…including himself. Now, looking for redemption for the atrocities committed by the monster he was when he was first turned at the age of 18, Angel stumbles upon a new demon uprising and a shocking truth: The restoration of his humanity can only come if he takes one more life: a certain Slayer from Sunnydale who he’s never met…but may now be his greatest enemy.
Darkness has possessed another innocent…and Angel has no choice but to fight them. Trapped in an empty hospital with nowhere to go, Angel needs to find a way to save the host from this deadly and elusive demon, or have yet another life on his conscience. Will his new ally Fred be able to help him…or is she the reason he’s battling this monster in the first place?
ANGEL #3 features a main cover by artist Dan Panosian (Slots) and a variant cover by Scott Buoncristiano (Buffy the Vampire Slayer).
Created by visionary writer and director Joss Whedon (Marvel’s The Avengers film franchise), Angel premiered on the WB Network on October 5th, 1999 and was a spin-off from Buffy The Vampire Slayer. The series ran for five seasons from 1999-2004, starring David Boreanaz as “Angel,” the tortured vampire destined to walk the earth with a soul who moved to LA to set up shop as a supernatural private investigator. Despite Angel’s best efforts to deal with the sins of his past all by himself, Angel Investigations soon became home to other lost souls searching for redemption and willing to fight by his side.
ANGEL is the newest release from BOOM! Studios’ eponymous imprint, home to critically acclaimed original series, including Once & Future by Kieron Gillen and Dan Mora;Faithless by Brian Azzarello and Maria Llovet; Abbott from Saladin Ahmed and Sami Kivelä; Bury The Lede from Gaby Dunn and Claire Roe; Grass Kings from Matt Kindt and Tyler Jenkins; and Klaus from Grant Morrison and Dan Mora. The imprint also publishes popular licensed properties including Joss Whedon’s Firefly from Greg Pak and Dan McDaid; Buffy The Vampire Slayer from Jordie Bellaire and David Lopez; and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers from Ryan Parrott and Danielle Di Nicuolo.
Print copies of ANGEL #3 will be available for sale on July 31, 2019 exclusively at local comic book shops (use comicshoplocator.com to find the nearest one). Digital copies can be purchased from content providers, including comiXology, iBooks, Google Play, and the BOOM! Studios app. Print copies of the surprise drop ANGEL #0 are available now exclusively in comic book shops everywhere.
For continuing news on ANGEL comic books, graphic novels and more from BOOM! Studios, stay tuned to www.boom-studios.com and follow @boomstudios on Twitter. And follow Angel on Facebook.

First up in this post the first single/video from the new album. Titled “The Trace”, the fourth song on the upcoming release.
And now the official press release and tour info:

