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Saturday Trending Topics: Marvel Relaunch

Published Sun, 01 Jul 2012 01:10:14 -0500

Last updated Sun, 01 Jul 2012 01:10:36 -0500

The coming week could be a big one for comic news — SDCC pre-announcements and breaking rumors of such should dominate the week. And then there's this: We've been running a number of stories over the last few weeks looking at rumoured new creative teams for existing books, and for new books. The word is that you're going to see a bunch of them start again from issue – but this is not a line wide relaunch in the same fashion as the New 52 – and it won't be a continuity replacement either. You may see a lot of newly designed characters however… it also looks as if it may start in November, if the Captain America timeline is anything to go by.

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