At Marvel’s San Diego Comic Con ‘Next Big Thing’ panel 6 X-Men series have just been announced… Now new series by themselves or as a complete line restructure for any of Marvel’s ‘families’ has rather become business as usual – the more things change… and all that. But sometimes the selections of creative team, titles and characters just gets a buzz going – and this is one of those times.

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Here at this panel at the MCM Comic Con 2019 it’s hard to tell whether the crowd are primarily aspiring creators here for advice or fans of and here for the panellists. Serious aspirants are likely to have built a portfolio of repeated advice – will this panel deliver more of the same or are there any hidden nuggets to be unearthed?

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Either way, this panel is about breaking into comics in different eras so for the comic fans generally it’s going to be as much an insight into different eras and creators as the advice fest some will be here for.

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	We’re very much about the comics and also very much about the music. So when news like this comes in we just have to jump on it.
	Having a real interest in diversity in comics – not to mention his recent debut in Captain America: Civil War and upcoming solo cinematic debut in 2018 – Marvel’s The Black Panther has been very much on our radar. The latest series is by the creative team of correspondent and author Ta-Nehisi Coates and comics mainstay artist Brian Stelfreeze and already looks set to become one of those defining runs on a character (the first collected volume is due September this year).
	But Marvel are also promoting the book with author commentary on where the series is, integrating that with music – this time being THE PRODIGY!
	Check out what Marvel have to say below by followed by the integrated Black Panther video, then the Prodigy tune Beast With It ft. Mark the Beast on YouTube!

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	We’ve hit an era in comics where big comic events are essentially continual – but Secret Wars is as big as they come. Paying homage to arguably the first big official event in name and somewhat in plot, Secret Wars paves the way for a ‘restructured’ Marvel Universe and a new era: and there’s a lot of it!
	So whether you’re an interested casual reader, a bookseller needing some more info on the graphic novel side, or an event completist, we thought a comprehensive page on Marvel’s Secret Wars collections might help. You can find the rest of Marvel’s Oct-Dec output on our dedicated page here (wherein there’s a montage and a link here of these titles) which contains details on the ‘Last Days’ collections which lead up to Secret Wars. We’ll be maintaining and updating this page with the event titles coming in early 2016 – for now here’s those for October to December with a short summary…

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	Here’s a look at the Graphic Novels / Collections Marvel have coming for you over the period Oct-Dec 2015!
	We’ll be bringing you our particular recommends of all publishers together shortly by month of publication.

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DC and Marvel have been unrelenting in new starts over the last years. But when the scheme of their current event Secret Wars was unveiled it became clear that a truly fresh start was coming. Under Jonathan Hickman’s Avengers epic universes are colliding and being destroyed, and the Marvel Universe you know is on a direct course for the Marvel Ultimate Universe (which you may also know!)

The result? A combined new-ish Universe. Check out the latest news below – Opinion’s my own but I’ve got to say – the understandable cynicism of old-school readers aside – there has not been one announcement so far that has not been somewhere between ‘damn interesting’ and ‘Hell yes!’

I’ll be updating with more as it comes…

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Beginning in October, Al Ewing and Paco Medina bring you a monthly superhuman fight-fest in Contest of Champions. You can read more on our All-New All-Different Marvel (news and opinion) page or just get straight on and check out our preview of interior pages of issue 1 below!

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	How Miracleman came to land at Marvel is a story unto itself (a little on that here) but it’s a big deal, no less the material finally seeing the light of day from Messr’s Gaiman, Buckingham and D’Israeli. And #1 of Miracleman: The Golden Age is, of time of writing, about to be published!
	Read on for the press release from Marvel and see below our preview of the opening sequence and more including variant cover art; we might add that variant covers are something we normally leave for the specialist sites but, again, this is just something a bit special…

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	CAPTAIN AMERICA: WHITE #1 – by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale – Coming September 2015
	For the uninitiated Loeb and Sale have an ongoing gig in the form of their ‘Color’ series’ with Marvel, chronicling the formative years of Marvel characters and taking a defining colour from the character or costume for the title. So far they’ve done Spider-Man: Blue, Daredevil: Yellow and Hulk: Gray, Daredevil’s original costume being yellow and blue in the comic, the Hulk actually originally being grey (and returned to that scheme by the brilliant Peter David in the late 80’s).
	Readers and retailers can look forward to the same pro-treatment and a solid well-written standalone series / collection of Marvel’s flagship supersoldier beginning September – check out our preview below!

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	INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #1, written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS, Art by DAVID MARQUEZ – coming October 2015
	Along with the rest of the Marvel stable Iron Man is relaunching. Not a surprise with new armour and a new creative team, but we did earmark this as something a bit special both for the character, the creators – and of course then for readers. So scroll on and check out our preview: if anything with more convinced than before!

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	SPIDEY #1, Written by ROBBIE THOMPSON, Art by NICK BRADSHAW, On sale November 2015
	Spider-Man started off as a High School teenager but, with the sliding-scale time of comic books, the huge majority of his history has been in his young adult years. So when you’re reworking your publication line after a reality rework why not get in some new adventures for your flagship character? Check out our preview of interior art by Mr Nick Bradshaw below…

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	There’s another great helping of Graphic Novels / Comic Collections coming our way this month: so here’s our top picks of the fantastical, the weird, the literary and the superheroic all together publishing in September!

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	Herein, via links to individual pages, lies the more-or-less complete output of UK SFF and major worldwide Graphic Novel publishers for July to December 2015!
	We’ve applied selection criteria with the assumption that readers with a penchant for paranormal romance and titles more for the American market will have no problem finding those elsewhere; reissues and classic reprints are included sparingly.

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	Here’s a look at the Graphic Novels Marvel have coming for you over the period July to December 2015!
	We’ll be bringing you our particular recommends of all publishers together shortly by month of publication.

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	@vincentabnett (Dan and wife Nik Vincent-Abnett)
	On Wikipedia
	(Photo by Luigi Novi – sourced from Wikipedia)
	Professional writer – SFF in prose and comics; co-creator of the comic series on which the Guardians of the Galaxy film was based, and much more…

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Dan Abnett is one of the most prolific writers in SFF, scripting both comics and prose. Of the former he’s been a mainstay of the UK and then US scene since the 80’s. In his earlier British comic work perhaps the most noteworthy has been Knights of Pendragon, the radical revamp – with Andy Lanning and Liam Sharp – of Deaths Head, and then with artist David Millgate the origination of a core strip to 2000 AD, Sinister Dexter.

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	There’s another great helping of Graphic Novels / Comic Collections coming our way this month: so here’s our top picks of the fantastical, the weird, the literary and the superheroic all together publishing in May!

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