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The Rundown: September 14, 2020

By | Sep 14, 2020 | 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, the 2020 Ignatz Awards were held; DC Comics unveiled December’s crossover ‘Endless Winter‘; Titan acquired Jodorowsky and Jérémy’s “Knights of Heliopolis“; First […]

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2020 Ignatz Awards Winners Announced

By | Sep 13, 2020 | News

The winners of the 2020 Ignatz Awards, honoring the year’s best independent and small press comics, were announced during last night’s virtual Small Press Expo. So without further ado, here are the recipients of the prizes: Outstanding Artist: Rosemary Valero-O’Connell, who previously won three awards last year for “Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me.” […]

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Titan Acquires Jodorowsky and Jérémy’s “Knights of Heliopolis”

By | Sep 11, 2020 | News

Per Comic Watch and ComicOn, Titan Comics’ foreign language imprint Statix Press have acquired Glénat’s fantasy series “Knights of Heliopolis” (French: “Les Chevaliers d’Héliopolis“). Written by Alejandro Jodorowsky, and illustrated by mononymous Belgian artist Jérémy with colorist Felideus Bubastis, the comic is described as a reimagining of Alexandre Dumas’s The Man in the Iron Mask, […]

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Chuck Austen Returns with comiXology’s “Edgeworld,” with Art by Patrick Olliffe

By | Sep 11, 2020 | News

Via io9, comiXology have announced their next exclusive title will be “Edgeworld,” the first comic book written by Chuck Austen in over a decade. The five-issue series is a space western, that follows Killian Jess, a magistrate protecting the backwater world of Pala with one of its native inhabitants, Cheela. The creative team also consists […]

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Marvel Announces “King in Black: Namor” Miniseries

By | Sep 10, 2020 | News

This article has been corrected since its publication. Via Syfy Wire, Marvel have announced “King in Black: Namor,” a five-issue series tying into Donny Cates and Ryan Stegman’s upcoming event, also beginning in December. Written by Kurt Busiek with art by Ben Dewey (“The Autumnlands”) and Jonas Scharf (“Avengers of the Wastelands”), the comic will […]

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Exclusive Preview: “Immortal Hulk” #37

By | Sep 10, 2020 | Previews

We’re big fans of Al Ewing and Joe Bennett’s “Immortal Hulk” here at Multiversity, having named it the best ongoing comics series for the past two years running. A thoroughly sinister, gloomy, and gory Hulk adventure, it is arguably the most successful portrayal of Bruce Banner’s tale as a horror story ever published. We are […]

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“Flake”

By | Sep 7, 2020 | Reviews

This review contains minor spoilers. Earlier this year, Matthew Dooley’s debut graphic novel “Flake” became the first comic book to win the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, the UK’s only literary award for comedy literature. It is, indeed, a very funny book, but it’s also a somber reflection on the mundanity of working class life in […]

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Jim Janes, Comic Book and Storyboard Artist, Has Died

By | Sep 5, 2020 | News

[Header image from “Legion of Super-Heroes” #270 (December 1980)] CBR reports artist Jim Janes has died. Writer Paul Kupperberg, who collaborated with Janes on “Secrets of the Legion of Super-Heroes,” tweeted on Friday, “I just learned of the death of artist Jim Janes, my long ago collaborator on the ‘Secrets of the Legion of Super-Heroes’ […]

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