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11 - Young Avengers returns!
(Marvel Comics - January) Fan favourite Marvel Comics’ series Young Avengers returns with an all-new ongoing in time for Marvel NOW! Originally launched in 2005 by Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung it became a fast critical and commercial hit, marred only by scheduling delays. With Heinberg and Cheung having finally completed their story (with 2010-2012’s bimonthly shipping Avengers: The Children’s Crusade) its time for some new blood to take over and bring our favourite teen superheroes back to the comic shelves – enter the dynamic duo of Phonogram fame: Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie. Set to kick off in January, expect some fun times ahead.
Image © Orbit Books, 2012

Image © Marvel Comics, 2012

12 - Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time epic book series finally concludes

(Orbit - January)

January marks the release of the concluding part in Robert Jordan’s expansive Wheel of Time book series, entitled A Memory of Light. Begun in 1990, predating George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones by six years, The Wheel of Time has spread across fourteen bricksized tomes and caught fantasy readers’ imaginations with its sprawling mythology and rich characters. A bestseller and fan-favourite series, its

fate was put into doubt when author Robert Jordan died in 2007 whilst working on the final book in the series. Jordan’s widow, Harriet McDougal, picked rising star author Brandon Sanderson to bring the series to an end, based on Jordan’s rigorous and detailed notes. These notes were so detailed that the final book was split into three separate novels – A Memory of Light being the last part. Sanderson has proven his writing chops well with his own Mistborn and Stormlight Archive series’ and he promises to bring the series to an epic and satisfying end.

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