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A new creative team and new direction for a relaunched Secret Avengers book was the headline announcement at Marvel's Avengers panel at New York Comic Con on Saturday -- but there were also some other secrets revealed, including the names of three additional members of the sprawling non-secret Avengers line-up...

This week on War Rocket Ajax, we're joined by Jonathan Hickman! As the incoming writer of Avengers, he has a lot to talk about, but what we really want to hear is his experience at last week's MorrisonCon, a convention that was an entirely different experience than anything else he's been to -- and you can listen to the whole show right here on ComicsAlliance...

Jonathan Hickman has been talking about his new New Avengers series, and plans for moving the entire Avengers franchise forward. Are you ready for an Avengers team that "looks more like the world"?On today's "Next Big Thing" conference call and live blogs, Hickman said that his line-up for the Avengers book will ultimately reach somewhere around 24 members, with -- in a break w

Devised by the Ignition Sequence (Isotope proprietors James Sime and Kirsten Baldock and iFanboy co-founder Ron Richards) MorrisonCon was first announced in January as a kind of hip, forward-thinking antidote to the organizational chaos and overt commercialism of the traditional comic book show...

In a lot of ways, Jonathan Hickman tends to approach writing comics like a science experiment-- everything is meticulously planned years in advance, engineered to produce a specific result when it's all said and done. It's fitting, then, that for The Manhattan Projects, his creator-owned book with Nick Pitarra from Image that stars a team of historic scientific heavyweights like Einstein, Oppenhei

Marvel has released three interlocking covers by Dustin Weaver revealing the assembled might of Jonathan Hickman and interior artist Jerome Opeña's Marvel NOW! Avengers team, which will kick off with Avengers #1 in December. The lineup will look pretty familiar to those who have seen the Avengers movie and/or have followed the team through the Bendis Era, although there are some notable additions

First announced back in January, MorrisonCon is designed to be a stylish and forward-thinking antidote to the chaos and commercialism of the traditional comic book trade show. Curated by Grant Morrison and the Ignition Sequence (a collaboration of Isotope proprietors James Sime & Kirsten Baldock and iFanboy co-founder Ron Richards) MorrisonCon features no showroom floor, no merchandise dealers

Jonathan Hickman is a comics writer known to his peers, collaborators and hardcore fans as a methodical plotter. The creator of The Nightly News and Pax Romana and writer of Secret Warriors is indeed so diligent in his preparations that his series outlines eschew the standard text-based format and take the form of intricate charts or graphs that delineate precisely what and when something will occ

First announced earlier this week, Marvel NOW! is a new and ambitious publishing initiative whereby Marvel Comics will launch (or in several cases, relaunch) new ongoing series nearly every week between October 2012 and February 2013. While not a reboot of its long-running narratives and mythologies, Marvel NOW...

Marvel has announced plans to lure new and lapsed readers by launching or relaunching new series every week between October and February and reassigning popular creators to different franchises for the first time in years. Called Marvel NOW...