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Five Thoughts on Stargirl‘s “Summer School: Chapter Nine”

By Brian Salvatore | Oct 8, 2021 | Television

Stargirl continues to play with our expectations of what the JSA was and is. Let’s get right to it. 1. TURN ON A LIGHT I get that the theme of this season is darkness and shadow, quite literally, but I can’t deal with 40 minutes of poor lighting every week. In “Chapter Nine,” there were […]

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Reader Poll

Reader Poll: What Was Your Favorite Star Wars: Visions Episode?

By Brian Salvatore | Oct 8, 2021 | Reader Poll

Late last month, Star Wars: Visions debuted on Disney+. The animated series featured nine short films, presented by seven anime studios, and each told an alternate tale somewhere in the Star Wars mythos. We reviewed each episode, as well as releasing an episode of our Force Ghost Coast to Coast podcast on the series, but […]

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Podcasts

Force Ghost Coast to Coast, Season III, Episode LXI: Star Wars: Visions

By Brian Salvatore, Liz Farrell and Matt Liguori | Oct 8, 2021 | Podcasts

There’s been an awakening…have you felt it? After a long, unplanned break, Force Ghost Coast to Coast returns! Brian, Matt, and Liz dig into the new Disney+ series Star Wars: Visions. With varying levels of anime knowledge/experience under their belts, the three hosts dig into the nine episodes and discuss the highs and lows of […]

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Reviews

“Chicken Devil” #1

By Kobi Bordoley | Oct 8, 2021 | Reviews

“Chicken Devil” #1 from AfterShock comics is full of violence, high-lunacy, glitteringly good illustration, and a plot just wild enough to pull us in for the long haul. In other words, it’s finger-licking good. Think Sin City meets The Big Lebowski meets Hobo with a Shotgun meets…a McDonald’s commercial, I guess? “Chicken Devil” #1 is […]

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Podcasts

Robots From Tomorrow: Episode 700 – Chad Bowers & Mike Mignola [Rebroadcast]

By Greg Matiasevich | Oct 8, 2021 | Podcasts

This episode was originally broadcast on October 8, 2020. For this 700th episode, the lads bring you something old AND something new! Things kick off with Greg talking to Multiversity alum and current comics writer Chad Bowers about his mini-series Snake-Eyes: Dead Game, drawn by comics legend and world’s most energetic human Rob Liefeld. The […]

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News

The Rundown: October 8, 2021

By Reid Carter | Oct 8, 2021 | 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 rundown@multiversitycomics.com. In case you missed it, Scout Comics and the production company Mucho Mas Media launched the Latinx imprint Chispa Comics, and a school district in Houston has […]

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News

“The Breakaways” Banned in Texas School District Over Trans Representation

By Christopher Chiu-Tabet | Oct 7, 2021 | News

Per the Houston Chronicle, Cathy G. Johnson’s graphic novel “The Breakaways” has been banned in Spring Branch (Houston) ISD’s elementary school libraries, after a parent complained that it included a transgender character. District spokesman Terry Abbott said two librarians, two teachers and an administrator reviewed the book and recommended it be banned, claiming it was […]

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News

Scout Comics Teams with Mucho Mas Media for Latinx Imprint Chispa Comics

By Luke Cornelius | Oct 7, 2021 | News

Scout Comics have announced that they have partnered with the LA production company, Mucho Mas Media, for a new Latinx imprint called Chispa Comics. The first title announced for the imprint is “Attack at Acapulco: A Black Demon Tale,” by writer Sebastian Martinez-Kadlecik and penciler Bruno Oliveira. Specific plot details for “Attack at Acapulco” have […]

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Television

Five Thoughts on Good Omens’ “The Doomsday Option”

By Mel Lake | Oct 7, 2021 | Television

Armageddon has arrived! Only seventeen minutes to go until the end of the world. In the second-to-last episode of Good Omens, all our many characters have to make it to an American air force base, where the actual apocalypse part of the apocalypse will take place. 1. You’re My Best Friend Last week, Aziraphale’s beloved […]

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Reviews

“Zero Hour”: A Crisis In Recapping, Part 7

By Rowan Grover | Oct 7, 2021 | Reviews

Folks, you’ve heard about it whispered in the corners of DC fandom. You’ve been confused at the odd reference to it in those “modern comics” you devour week after week. What in the darned heck is “Zero Hour”? Why is it called that? Why is it numbered backward? Who is Extant and should I really […]

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Previews

Exclusive Preview: “Shang-Chi” #5

By Christopher Chiu-Tabet | Oct 7, 2021 | Previews

It was reported this week that Shang-Chi movie director Destin Daniel Cretton is helming a Disney+ series based on Gene Luen Yang’s seminal graphic novel “American Born Chinese.” It feels appropriate, given Yang writes the character’s current comic book series, although the world he and artist Dike Ruan have been building is quite different from […]

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