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See what new and upcoming graphic novels, collections, reference books and more are now available in bookstores near you!

This October, dive into middle-grade anthology Marvel Super Stories, join Shang-Chi on a Quest for Immortality, and unpack the official timeline of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with an insider reference book. Plus, all-new stories for Marvels youngest fans, and plenty of collectors favorites for the True Believers in your life.

Read about each new October release, then order online or pick up in stores near you.

Marvel Super Storiesis the first-ever middle-grade anthology from Marvel and Abrams Books, featuring all-new comics stories by fifteen all-star cartoonists!

Edited by #1New York Timesbestselling illustrator John Jennings, Marvel Super Stories features all of your favorite Marvel super heroes in original six-page stories by some of the biggest names in comics for young readers while offering a fun, fresh look at Marvels greatest super heroes and delivering all-new comics for fans of all ages. These mighty team-ups include:

Black Panther:Jerry Craft(New Kid), Wiccan:Mike Curato(Flamer), Miles Morales Spider-Man:C. G. Esperanza(Soul Food Sunday), Iron Man:John Gallagher(Max Meow), Shang-Chi:Gale Galligan(The Baby-Sitters Club), the Hulk:Chris Giarrusso(G-Man), Spider-Man:Nathan Hale(Nathan Hales Hazardous Tales), Captain America:Michael Lee Harris(Choco Leche), Hawkeye:Ben Hatke(Zita the Spacegirl), Ms. Marvel:Priya Huq(Piece by Piece: The Story of Nisrins Hijab), Daredevil:John Jennings(Kindred: The Graphic Novel Adaptation), Thor and Loki:George OConnor(The Olympians), Namor:Lincoln Peirce(Big Nate), Squirrel Girl:Maria Scrivan(Nat Enough), and Ghost Spider:Jessi Zabarsky(Witchlight).

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A new staging of a classic opera and a master class led by Grammy Award-winning American soprano Christine Brewer are among the highlights of the fall voice and opera season at the Bienen School of Music.

The new staging of Viktor Ullmanns opera The Emperor of Atlantis opens Thursday, Nov. 16 at 7:30 p.m. It incorporates a modern twist with elements of artificial intelligence. The opera, performed by Bienen voice and opera program students together with the Contemporary Music Ensemble, was composed while Ullmann was a prisoner of the concentration camp at Terezn in the Czech Republic. Its plot explores a war-torn world in which Death goes on strike, granting immortality to all.

"Ullmann's opera is so witty and smart, and so insightful in its political satire, said Alan Pierson, conductor of the Contemporary Music Ensemble. There's so much rich material for these talented young musicians to tear into. And it's particularly meaningful to shine a light on the extraordinary work that Ullmann created amid the horror of Nazi Germany."

Director Joachim Schamberger spoke of the operas conception in the midst of inconceivable darkness, and how it recalls humanitys lowest and highest capabilities. In our production, we explore how the phenomena which led into this darkness are still alive in our times and beyond, he said.

In the Tichio-Finnie Vocal Master Class series, voice and opera students receive coaching from renowned professionals. Novembers class is taught by Christine Brewer, who has received acclaim for her appearances with many of the worlds leading orchestras, particularly for her titular role in Richard Strausss Ariadne auf Naxos and her myriad performances of his Four Last Songs.

I am thrilled that our Bienen School voice majors will have an opportunity to work with Christine Brewer in her Tichio-Finnie master class, said voice and opera program artist-in-residence Nancy Gustafson, who has performed with Brewer and the New York Philharmonic. She always sings with a consummate elegance. Giving our students an opportunity to work with her on song literature is a once in a lifetime experience.

The series will continue in the winter quarter with a master class given by multi-Grammy Award- and 2018 Olivier Award- winner Joyce DiDonato on January 8.

Joyce DiDonato is among the most inspiring artists of this generation. Her commitment to have a real impact for good throughout the world is apparent in each project and performance that she takes on, said W. Stephen Smith, voice and opera program coordinator. She is a model for how our voice program strives to enable impactful vocal artists for coming .

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Have you ever heard Crystal Coffin? Because you really need to. The band is releasing their third record The Curse Of Immortality on October 31 and it's all the melodic, slightly progressive black metal you could ever want. I mean seriously, three albums in and everyone really should be tuning into Crystal Coffin at this point.

As far as a concept, The Curse Of Immortality is described as such: "Less a formal concept album from its predecessor, the eight tracks loosely depict a protagonist whose failed attempts at suicide have placed him into a rehabilitation center wherein clandestine medical personnel experiment on the captured and unconscious patients at night in chambers below. Through a combination of cryogenetics, evil rites, and state control, the subject involuntarily becomes the first successful completed case for verified immortality a life that will no longer require death."

The awesome cover art for The Curse Of Immortality was done by Crystal Coffin multi-instrumentalist Lenkyn Ostapovich. Stream the record in full below courtesy of the Black Metal Promotion YouTube channel and pre-order it here.

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Participants present their projects during the poster discussion session of the second annual Sustainability Symposium held in the Discovery Building on Oct. 25, 2023. Photo by: Bryce Richter

Mo Abbasian (left), research associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, talks with attendees about hydro-climate extremes research during the poster discussion session. Photo by: Bryce Richter

Jon Starfeldt, student of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences & Data Science, talks with attendees about UWMadison potential rooftop solar energy potential. Photo by: Bryce Richter

Christina Treacy, sustainability chair for the Associated Students of Madison (ASM), talks with attendees about the work of the ASM Sustainability Committee. Photo by: Bryce Richter

Hien Vu, a third-year PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering, talks with attendees about sustainable dairy farming using wearable technology for heat stress detection. Photo by: Bryce Richter

Travis Blomberg, Campus Resource Coordinator in the Office of Sustainability, talks with attendees about UWMadisons food scrap collection pilot program. Photo by: Bryce Richter

Saurabh Gupta, research assistant in mechanical engineering, talks with attendees about flex fuel vehicles in large machines. Photo by: Bryce Richter

Over the course of the second annual Sustainability Symposium, nearly 400 students, faculty and staff gathered at the Discovery Building to engage in exciting conversations about research, education and the advancement of sustainability at UWMadison.

From a keynote address on improving food security through a circular economy, to lightning talks on campus sustainability initiatives and poster sessionson research projects across UWMadison, enthusiastic attendees learned, swapped ideas and inspired one another.

The keynote address was given by Weslynne Ashton, a professor of environmental management and sustainability at Illinois Institute of Technology. She focused on a theme that carried throughout the symposium: real world applications of research.

Keynote speaker Weslynne Ashton, a professor of environmental management and sustainability at Illinois Institute of Technology, spoke about a community project to create love fridges, which she described as a form of mutual aid, where neighbors help neighbors in times of need. Photo by Lauren Graves/UWMadison

What if our food system was organized around principles of love, justice and circularity, rather than money, exploitation and consumption? she asked.

Ashton, who works on increasing sustainability and equity in urban food systems, spoke about a community project to create love fridges, which she described as a form of mutual aid, where neighbors help neighbors in times of need.

People are invited to take what they need and leave what they can, she said. They are an expression of solidarity, not charity.

Ashton described how she collaborates to develop food waste prevention and management strategies for the City of Chicago. In the city, the predominantly white and affluent north side of Chicago produces more waste and enjoys more access to food than the predominantly Black and brown south and west sides.

To confront the citys mounting inequities, Ashton gathered food providers, food rescue organizations, food waste recyclers and policymakers to devise a more cohesive strategy.

This example helped introduce her argument for a circular economy. A linear economy, she said, carries the belief that the Earth holds unlimited resources, with enough space to accommodate the millions of tons of food Americans waste each year. But in reality, Ashton said, that pushes against the limits of our planets biogeochemical functions.

A circular economy on the other hand, is restorative and regenerative by design. She said the new economic model can respect the planets boundaries through recycling and waste reduction.

Our food system and food waste is a complex challenge thats affecting both people and planet, she said. We have to confront the values that are inherent in our linear economy and find creative ways to navigate the tensions that are required for our food systems transformation to make space for justice, for equity and for circularity.

Matt Ginder-Vogel, an environmental chemistry and technology professor at UW, spoke during the lightning talks round about a new initiative for sustainability research. Photo by Lauren Graves/UWMadison

During the symposiums lighting talks, Matt Ginder-Vogel announced the start of the Sustainability Research Hub, a Nelson Institute and Office of Sustainability initiative to make the University of WisconsinMadison a preeminent destination for sustainability research. The hub will facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration toward sustainability, bringing researchers together to apply for large, interdisciplinary grants and coordinating the proofreading, editing and graphic design of their projects.

We want to add to the body of research that is already happening at the university and bring people into sustainability research that dont have the chance to participate now, said Ginder-Vogel, who will oversee the program.

Other presentations detailed ongoing sustainability projects on campus like tracking the volume and cost of food waste in dining and culinary services, the financial and environmental benefits of opting to use water-based cleaning systems on campus and the solutions resulting from efforts to connect local government partners with UWMadison student researchers.

Like last year, the Sustainability Symposium welcomed a major UWMadison decisionmaker who voiced support for sustainability initiatives and research. Provost Charles Lee Isbell Jr. described the symposium attendees work as both essential and the living embodiment of the Wisconsin Idea. He added that the university needs to embrace this work and continue to strive to be a leader in sustainability.

What is the world were going to create if we act and behave in the right ways, and what is the world if we do nothing 25 years from now? he asked.

Provost Charles Lee Isbell Jr. described the symposium attendees work as both essential and the living embodiment of the Wisconsin Idea. Photo by Lauren Graves/UWMadison

The future is on Isbells mind and the minds of the hundreds of symposium attendees who feel compelled to work thoughtfully, urgently and collaboratively to prevent the worst results of climate change.

I care about immortality, Isbell concluded. When I was young, I wanted to live forever.

To Isbell, immortality means, that you somehow touched not just this generation but the generation that follows and the generation that follows that. You do work and have change and make impact. Thats the closest most of us will ever come to immortality, and its the kind of immortality thats worth having.

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Twitching Tongues is celebrating Halloween with a brand new Misfits covers EP, appropriately titled . The EP was engineered and mixed by Taylor Young at (sadly now doomed) The Original Pit Recording Studio, mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege, and can be streamed in full below.

"Bittersweet because it's our last recording ever at the OG The Original Pit Recording Studio, where everything we've ever done has been made, but this was my first time 'singing' on a full record in 6 years and it was the most fun I've ever had playing music," said Twitching Tongues' Colin Young. "Records available for 138 hours. Happy Halloween"

Twitchfits Vol. 1 also has a limited vinyl run available here at Twitching Tongues' website. Interestingly, the vinyl run of Twitchfits Vol. 1 isn't limited to a number of pressings, but instead only available for pre-order for the next 138 hours obviously a reference to Misfits' "We Are 138". So get one quick!

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After 52 years in North Texas, the Rangersfinallywon the World Series.

I always suspected Id write that sentence someday, just as I presume Ill eventually do so for the Cowboys and the Super Bowl. It is awfully difficult for big-market franchises with any modicum of brain power, spending power, and star power to stay down forever, and the Rangers have spent good chunks of the last quarter century flush in all three. Sooner or later, they were bound to get theirs.

But absolutely no part of me imagined that we would be here, now, watching this team do what five decades worth of other Ranger squads could not. Not one year after losing 94 games and two years year after dropping 102 in the clubs first triple-digit-loss season since 1972. Not yet. The 2023 Texas Rangers were supposed to be several injury breaks and several more relievers away from achieving baseball immortality. They were supposed to be too inconsistent to win big. Too light on playoff seasoning and all the steel that provides.

This year was the prelude, not the full concerto.

Except it wasnt.

The Rangers ascent from baseballs depths to its absolute pinnacle felt equal parts instantaneous and painstaking, a fast sprint to complete a long marathon. This was an exhausting baseball team, but an incorrigible one, too, which is how no setbackhowever daunting, frustrating, and occasionally self-inflictedproved too big to overcome.

And so, they did.

And now, everything has changed.

The Rangers are no longer the lesser child among the regions big four teams, not after theynot the big, bad Cowboys, nor the Luka Doncic-led Mavericks, nor the perpetually contending Stars, but the historically hapless Rangersare the team to end North Texas 12-year championship drought. They are the kings of North Texas, the new measuring stick for on-field excellence.

Corey Seager is on the fast track to becoming one of the best Rangers of all time. Adolis Garca is a North Texas playoff legend. Bruce Bochy, until proven otherwise, is infallible. Jose Leclerc, fallible at the very worst moment against Houston, is redeemed. So, too, is Marcus Semien after the insurance homer in Game 5 and that bombastic Game 4, which, thanks to one of those lovely improbabilities that makes baseball so wonderful, will nevertheless be known as The Andrew Heaney Game. Jordan Montgomery and Mitch Garver are about to get paid. Evan Carter, who now has almost as many career postseason plate appearances as regular-season ones in his two-month-long career, will soon enjoy one of the most anticipated rookie years in decades around here. Nathan Eovaldi, signed to be Jacob deGroms understudy in the rotation, is now deGroms benchmark for how spectacular a thirtysomething coming off a second Tommy John surgery can be.

A week ago, I wrote that the key to understanding this group and its many, many twists and turns was to examine them less through trends than possibilities. Why not the Rangers, I wondered, before winding down with the following:

Why not the Rangers, who have spent seven months defying, disproving, and disabusing every notion that an obviously flawed team cannot also be a great one, a special one, perhaps even a transcendent one?

Why not the Rangers?

Why not now?

The answer, we know now, is that there was no answerno stopping this team that, for so many reasons and on so many occasions, seemed destined to become like the other 51 Texas Rangers teams who never knew November baseball. This was not the most talented Texas Rangers team of all time, and it damn sure wasnt the healthiest or the least calamitous.

But it was the most determined, the most resilient, the absolute toughest to kill.

The hottest team in baseball through the All-Star break couldnt solve the 2023 Texas Rangers.

A 100-win team couldnt scratch them.

Their archnemesis couldnt outlast them.

An even more improbable World Series foil couldnt shock them.

If all of that doesnt make this the best Rangers team of all time, it undoubtedly makes it the greatestalthough, it should be noted, the competition for that first title didnt employ a hitter as good as Seager or a manager on par with Bochy, either. And they are certainly the benchmark for all the Texas Rangers squads to come, ones that could soon be even more talented once uber prospect Wyatt Langford bursts onto the scene and if deGrom returns to full form.

Come next spring, baseball will regard the Rangers as predators, not prey. This is the gravitas, the respect, theyve earned by outlasting 29 other teams. They will never again be grouped with clubs like Seattle, Colorado, Tampa Bay, Milwaukee, and San Diego in the cloister of franchises yet to taste World Series glory. They will never again be seen as less than.

Someday, perhaps someday soon, a different Rangers group will surpass this one. A bigger, badder bunch, with no fewer than two relief pitchers who dont make everyone queasy. But that team wont be the first team, the catalyst. Only one group of players could carry the idea of Texas Rangers, Championship Ball Club, into reality. You just finished watching them withstand an ocean of Arizona Diamondbacks baserunners before drowning themselves in confetti and cheap champagne.

One team had to go first. And at long last, one team has.

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Mike Piellucci is D Magazine's sports editor. He is a former staffer at The Athletic and VICE, and his freelance

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