April 2014 – Page 9 – Multiversity Comics

Comics Should Be Cheap! (4/23/2014)

By Multiversity Staff | Apr 22, 2014 | Columns

Buying comics can be an expensive hobby. A lot of fans simply can’t afford everything they’re interested in, due to rising prices and the over-saturation of the market with superhero titles. That’s why we’re here. Every week, the Multiversity staff is asked “What would you buy this week if you couldn’t go over $20?” and […]

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Podcasts

Robots From Tomorrow: Pull List #121

By Mike Romeo | Apr 22, 2014 | Podcasts

Welcome to Robots From Tomorrow! For this episode, the one hunderd and twenty first installment of the weekly Pull List series, the guys pick a couple of comics hitting shelves this week and talk about why they’re excited to read them. Clocking in at around 15 minutes, this bite-sized audio nugget is the perfect companion […]

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Reviews

How Adventure Time Pulled a Game of Thrones, and How It Totally Earned It [Review]

By Matthew Meylikhov | Apr 22, 2014 | Reviews

As a note, unfortunately, this article discusses spoilers for last night’s Adventure Time premiere. Please do not read further if you’ve not yet watched the episodes. Last night on a popular hit television show, some major and shocking events took place. First, a popular character was killed by a nefarious villain in a rather gruesome […]

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News

The Rundown: Rogue’s “Days of Future Past” Absence Explained, BOOM! Goes Big, and more

By Brian Salvatore | Apr 22, 2014 | News

Welcome back to The Rundown, our daily breakdown on comic news stories we missed from the previous day. Have a link to share? Email our team at either david@multiversitycomics.com or brian@multiversitycomics.com. – X-Men: Days of Future Past screenwriter Simon Kinberg has revealed why Rogue was cut out of the film – and it is a […]

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Columns

MC2: Expectations For the Next Big Event, “Original Sin”

By David Harper and Matthew Meylikhov | Apr 21, 2014 | Columns

David: The latest event at Marvel is starting up – in one sense – with this week’s Original Sin #0, a comic that is neither written nor drawn by the team who is writing and drawing the actual event comic itself. With a gestation period that is moderately comical and hype from Marvel that is […]

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Podcasts

The Hour Cosmic, Episode 64: Not Rom with Gerry Duggan

By Brian Salvatore, Chad Bowers and Matthew Meylikhov | Apr 21, 2014 | Podcasts

Welcome to another installment of The Hour Cosmic, your favorite comics game show! This week, our guest is “Deadpool” and “Nova” writer Gerry Duggan! On this week’s show, among other things, we discuss: – Slade and Wade! – Teenage Heroes! – Our perfect planets! Let’s meet our guests, shall we? Gerry Duggan is the writer […]

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Columns

Soliciting Multiversity: Dark Horse’s Top 10 in July 2014

By Vince Ostrowski | Apr 21, 2014 | Columns

Greetings and Solicitations! This month’s highlight is a crossover between two characters that is as perfect as comic book crossovers get, yet I wasn’t sure we would ever be lucky enough to see. Aside from that, we’ve got a few Mike Mignola books of note, one of comics’ best creative duos putting out a new […]

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News

Ellis and Lotay to Re-Introduce Supreme with “Blue Rose”

By Matthew Meylikhov | Apr 21, 2014 | News

It looks like “Trees” is not the only outing for Warren Ellis at Image, as he’ll be taking on a brand new and arguably more difficult project: a revamp of Rob Liefeld’s character “Supreme,” as made famous by Alan Moore’s incredible run. Written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Tula Lotay, very little is said […]

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Columns

The History of Comic Lettering: Early Years to 1940

By Drew Bradley | Apr 21, 2014 | Columns

Lettering – adding text representing speech, thoughts, and sounds to images – is much older than the modern comic. It was an invention of political cartoons, and was a natural progression of an image’s caption moving into the image itself. Its first use is impossible to track down, but the method of putting words into […]

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Columns

Looking at Lettering: An Introduction to Lettering Week

By Drew Bradley | Apr 21, 2014 | Columns

Reading this new series of articles will ruin your life. Ok, that’s a little extreme. Let’s turn down the hyperbole. Reading this new series of articles may ruin your life, and will remove the shine from some of your favorite comic books. Still think it’s extreme? It’s not. Bear with me. Lettering is only noticed […]

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Previews

Exclusive: Behold, the Death of the Rocket Boy in “Rust”v3 [Preview]

By Matthew Meylikhov | Apr 21, 2014 | Previews

Earlier today we talked with Royden Lepp about the next installment of his “Rust” series, entitled “The Death of the Rocket Boy”. And now, courtesy of our friends at BOOM! and Archaia, we have the first ten pages of the book to share with you today as well. Take a look: And here’s the official […]

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Interviews

Talking about the Death of the Rocket Boy with “Rust’s” Royden Lepp [Interview]

By Matthew Meylikhov | Apr 21, 2014 | Interviews

One of the current popular all-ages series currently being released, Royden Lepp’s “Rust” series is about to hit a turning point: we’re about to see the Death of the Rocket Boy. It’s not all as dire as that, but with the latest volume of the series the story does reach a turning point. Following up […]

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