Andy Diggle's new Marvel Comics project unveiled

Marvel Comics has revealed the first details of a new Andy Diggle project.

Senior vice president of publishing Tom Brevoort was speaking to Comic Book Resources about commissioning new titles and said that the new comic was called Six Guns.

"Andy Diggle came to me a few months back... he had a hole in his schedule and he had an idea for taking the names of some of the classic Marvel western characters and reimagining them as new modern day characters," he said.

"And I said that it sounded good and asked him to go off and write a pitch on what the project could be. It's called Six Guns, it's a contemporary action-adventure thriller set within the Marvel Universe - along the lines of something like Andy's The Losers, but with a bit more of a super-heroic bent to it."

Six Guns is being illustrated by Davide Gianfelice, who was Diggle's collaborator on Daredevil Reborn.

Diggle is also currently working on the creator-owned project Snapshot with long-time collaborator Jock.

Six Guns will debut in October.