Author Archives: Christopher Chiu-Tabet

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Columns
We Want Comics: Stephen King’s IT

By | Oct 30, 2018 | Columns

Happy Halloween readers, and welcome to an appropriately sinister edition of We Want Comics, the column about everything we at Multiversity want to see adapted into comic books. This week, we’re looking at Stephen King’s classic horror novel IT, which, with the help of a TV and film adaptation, unleashed the titular shapeshifting beast (aka […]

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Reader Poll: What is the Best Comic Version of Frankenstein and/or His Monster?

By , and | Oct 26, 2018 | Reader Poll

This year marks the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, one of the most important novels of all time. The book has launched more plays, films, television series, and, for our purposes, comics than nearly any other single novel. Beyond strict adaptations, the Monster has appeared in countless comics, from joining […]

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The Rundown: October 26, 2018

By | Oct 26, 2018 | News

Welcome 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, next year Legendary will release “Godzilla: Aftershock,” and IDW will publish “Dungeons & Dragons: A Darkened Wish.” We also interviewed Thom Zahler, and […]

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Television
Five Thoughts on Black Lightning‘s “The Book of Consequences, Chapter Three: Master Lowry”

By | Oct 24, 2018 | Television

On this week’s Black Lightning, Henderson and Pierce briefly set aside their differences to find Whale, Lynn got a creepy new colleague, Anissa continued her Robin Hood act, and Jennifer started seeing a therapist. 1. Titular Choices It’s strange then, the episode is named for Jefferson’s replacement at Garfield High, Mike Lowry (P.J. Byrne), who […]

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The Rundown: October 22, 2018

By | Oct 22, 2018 | 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, long-running comic strip “Jane’s World” came to an end, and Dead Reckoning announced their Spring 2019 slate of graphic novels. We also […]

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Anthea Bell, “Asterix” Translator, Dead at 82

By | Oct 18, 2018 | News

Deutsche Welle reports Anthea Bell, one of the translators who worked to bring the French “Asterix” comics to the English market, died this morning, aged 82. Bell was born in Suffolk, England, on May 10, 1936. She attended boarding school in Bournemouth, and then studied English at Somerville College in Oxford. She specialized in translating […]

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Five Thoughts on Black Lightning‘s “The Book of Consequences, Chapter Two: Black Jesus Blues”

By | Oct 17, 2018 | Television

This week’s Black Lightning began with a bang when Wendy Hernandez – one of the metahuman children from 30 years ago – was inadvertently awoken and escaped from cryo imprisonment. While Jefferson tracked down the missing girl, Lynn counseled the resurrected Green Light Baby Issa Williams. Oh, and Jefferson had to deal with the consequences […]

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Brubaker and Phillips’s “Criminal” Returns

By | Oct 16, 2018 | News

Image Comics have announced that Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’s crime anthology “Criminal” will return as an ongoing series on January 9, 2019. Here’s the press release: PORTLAND, OR, 10/16/2018 — Hot off the critically acclaimed, bestselling series KILL OR BE KILLED and breakout hit original graphic novel MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN JUNKIES, crime […]

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Five Thoughts on Black Lightning‘s “The Book of Consequences, Chapter One: Rise of the Green Light Babies”

By | Oct 10, 2018 | Television

Black Lightning‘s back with season 2 and oh boy, was the season premiere a stressful one, dealing with the spectacularly disastrous consequences of the first season, with Jefferson being taken to task by the school board for disappearing after Tobias Whale’s attack on Garfield High. Freeland as a whole was dealing with the revelation of […]

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New “The Goon” Series to Mark the 20th Anniversary

By | Oct 9, 2018 | News

In a press release, Albatross Funnybooks have announced they will publish a new “The Goon” series to mark the 20th anniversary of the comic in 2019. For the first time, creator Eric Powell will collaborate with other writers and pencilers on the adventures of the titular zombie-fighting gangster and his sidekick Franky. Powell states, “You’ll […]

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