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The Rundown: IDW Acquires Top Shelf, “Uncanny Inhumans” Coming in April, and more

By David Harper | Jan 7, 2015 | 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. – IDW has acquired Top Shelf Productions, one of the best and brightest of (former) independent graphic novel production, and Tom Spurgeon provides his […]

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News

The “Ant-Man” Trailer is Here and So Are the Fan Concerns

By David Harper | Jan 7, 2015 | News

Above, you can see the first trailer to “Ant-Man” – which I’m almost certain you’ve seen already – but this two minute spot has at least left the cross set of comic fans on Multiversity’s staff a little…underwhelmed. In fact, based off the response, you’d think our staff had watched a trailer for a Troma […]

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Longform

All-Ages Week: What Format Do Kids Want to Read Comics In?

By David Harper | Jan 6, 2015 | Longform

No two comic readers are exactly alike. Each has their preference in terms of titles, writers, artists, colorists, lettering styles, publishers and everything else, and that’s what helps develop the diverse and sprawling published product we see today. While we’re all in pursuit of the same thing – comics that are “good” – the vast […]

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Longform

All-Ages Week: The Direct Market vs. The Book Market

By David Harper | Jan 6, 2015 | Longform

Of all of the bizarre issues that face the comic industry, one of the oddest by far is the wild disparity of how all-ages comics perform in the book market (meaning bookstores, Amazon, and bigger stores like Target) when compared to how they perform in the direct market (meaning comic retail stores). At bookstores, all-ages […]

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Longform

All-Ages Week: Do Marvel and DC Do Enough to Draw in New Readers?

By David Harper | Jan 5, 2015 | Longform

Whether it’s fair or unfair, reasonable or unreasonable, there’s one thing that remains consistently true for both industry outsiders and insiders: Marvel Comics and DC Comics are perceived as the center of the comic book universe. Many would fight against this idea, but whether in the minds of mainstream journalists, your average Joe or Jill […]

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All-Ages Week: The State of the Union for All-Ages Comics

By David Harper | Jan 5, 2015 | Longform

As All-Ages Week begins, one of the most important things we can do to start is address where the comic book industry right now is in terms of serving young readers with appropriate material. Throughout much of the industry, or at least in the parts of that it that likes talking about such things, the […]

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Columns

You Know, For Kids: Introducing All-Ages Week

By David Harper | Jan 5, 2015 | Columns

Once upon the time, comics used to be one of the most popular ways for kids to read a story. Images like this one weren’t an uncommon sight, and the most popular comics were ones that people of all ages could read. Many comics could be handed to any girl or boy without fear of […]

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News

The Rundown: Hickman and Bodenheim’s “The Dying and the Dead” Gets a Preview, Marvel Teases “Ant-Man”, and more

By David Harper | Jan 5, 2015 | 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. – Jonathan Hickman and Ryan Bodenheim’s “The Dying & The Dead” gets a preview, and this upcoming Image Comics series looks seriously great. That’s […]

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Columns

The Comics Internet Aggregate Rankings for Best Comics of the Year

By David Harper | Dec 31, 2014 | Columns

The Comics Internet is an increasingly sprawling place, and one that covers a wide breadth of disparate interests when it comes to comics. It’s not just superhero comics, it’s independent comics, esteemed graphic novels, webcomics and many more varieties that get covered on a daily basis. In the process, especially at this time of the […]

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Reviews

Pick of the Week: The Apocalypse Has Never Been So Attractive in “East of West” #16

By David Harper | Dec 31, 2014 | Reviews

One of Multiversity’s favorite ongoings of both 2013 and 2014 continues its journey towards the apocalypse, with Hickman and Dragotta kicking off the official second year of the storyline in an over-sized, variant heavy release this week. Does it start with a bang? A whimper? Is this a portend that there is no tomorrow and […]

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The Rundown: “Constantine” Will Return, Marvel and ESPN Team Up for Project, and more

By David Harper | Dec 31, 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. – It wasn’t certain if NBC was going to bring “Constantine” back to finish out its run (let alone to see a second season), […]

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Jonathan Hickman Taking Marvel Break Post “Secret Wars”

By David Harper | Dec 30, 2014 | News

As both you, our faithful readers, and we, Multiversity Comics, know, Jonathan Hickman is the bee’s knees. The guy showed up into comics like a wrecking ball several years ago, and in the process created some of our favorite creator-owned titles like “The Manhattan Projects” and “East of West” while also reinventing both the “Fantastic […]

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The Rundown: IDW Acquires Top Shelf, “Uncanny Inhumans” Coming in April, and more

The “Ant-Man” Trailer is Here and So Are the Fan Concerns

All-Ages Week: What Format Do Kids Want to Read Comics In?

All-Ages Week: The Direct Market vs. The Book Market

All-Ages Week: Do Marvel and DC Do Enough to Draw in New Readers?

All-Ages Week: The State of the Union for All-Ages Comics

You Know, For Kids: Introducing All-Ages Week

The Rundown: Hickman and Bodenheim’s “The Dying and the Dead” Gets a Preview, Marvel Teases “Ant-Man”, and more

The Comics Internet Aggregate Rankings for Best Comics of the Year

Pick of the Week: The Apocalypse Has Never Been So Attractive in “East of West” #16

The Rundown: “Constantine” Will Return, Marvel and ESPN Team Up for Project, and more

Jonathan Hickman Taking Marvel Break Post “Secret Wars”

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