Author Archives: Leo Johnson

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Manifest Destiny Monster Clark Annotations
Dispatches From The Frontier: “Manifest Destiny” And The Horrors Of The Fog

By | Mar 22, 2017 | Annotations

Welcome back to Dispatches From The Frontier, Multiversity Comics’ “Manifest Destiny” annotations column. Following up on the last entry, we’re digging into issue 27 of “Manifest Destiny”, the Skybound Entertainment comic from Chris Dingess and Matthew Roberts that follows Lewis and Clark on their journey to rid the Louisiana Purchase of great and terrible monsters. […]

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Zander Cannon Talks The Future of “Kaijumax”

By | Mar 21, 2017 | Interviews

“Kaijumax” has been a Multiversity favorite ever since the first issue dropped. Zander Cannon’s insane mashup of kaiju and prison dramas has been a critical and commercial hit, getting an Eisner nomination and already producing two seasons of the comic. People really like giant bugs and lizards shanking each other and plotting jail breaks, it seems. […]

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Dispatches From The Frontier: “Manifest Destiny,” from ‘Flora and Fauna’ to Fog

By | Feb 22, 2017 | Annotations

Welcome to Dispatches From The Frontier, Multiversity Comics’ “Manifest Destiny” annotations column. There’s a lot to catch up on with this book from Chris Dingess, Matthew Roberts, and Skybound Comics, with the story into its fifth arc and the Corps of Discovery, led by Captain Meriwether Lewis and Second Lieutenant William Clark, already having moved […]

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Jason Shiga Talks “Demon”

By | Feb 21, 2017 | Interviews

Comics often seems a pretty straightforward medium. There’s pages full of various pictures and those pictures, together, tell a story of some sort. It’s when a creator does interesting, unexpected things with the medium that the versatility of comics is truly shown. One such creator is Jason Shiga. Shiga has, in the past, created “Meanwhile,” […]

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Jeff Lemire Heads To “Royal City”

By | Jan 31, 2017 | Interviews

We aren’t really sure how Jeff Lemire has time to sleep. As you’ll read shortly, he is currently writing four series, as well as writing/illustrating his new creator-owned book, “Royal City,” for Image. The series, which drops on March 1st, sees Lemire returning to the types of stories he told before bringing his talents to […]

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My Comics Year: Finally, a Local Comic Shop

By | Dec 27, 2016 | Columns

I’ve read comics off and on for most of my life, with some of my very first comics being battered copies of late 80s/early 90s books that my brother and I would track down at local flea markets for fifty cents. Those issues, never in any sequential order and often only telling part of the […]

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Fabian Rangel, Jr. Talks “‘NamWolf”

By | Sep 7, 2016 | Interviews

“‘NamWolf” is your recently announced comic with Logan Faerber. What’s the general idea of the story for those they may not know? Fabian Rangel, Jr.: “‘Namwolf” started as something Logan said at HeroesCon 2014 that I misheard. We were tabling next to each other and somehow started talking about Predator, and werewolf movies, and I could’ve […]

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