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Soliciting Multiversity: The Best of the Rest for February 2021

By Matthew Garcia | Nov 27, 2020 | Columns

This is it, folks, our last Soliciting column of 2020. We’ve looked at upcoming releases from DC, Marvel, Image, and manga publishers, so here’s some highlights from publishers indie, alternative, small press, and otherwise. Over the next month, we’re going to reflect back on what we read, what we loved, and what we forgot from […]

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Soliciting Multiversity: The Best of the Rest for January 2021

By Matthew Garcia | Oct 30, 2020 | Columns

It’s difficult to think that 2021 will actually exist. I guess even if we were in the middle of an apocalypse, Diamond would still go forward with their current lineup. We’ve already seen what’s coming up from DC, Marvel, Image, and manga publishers, so here’s some of the books coming out this January 2021 from […]

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Soliciting Multiversity: The Best of the Rest for December 2020

By Matthew Garcia | Sep 25, 2020 | Columns

We’re nearly at the end of this hellish year. And though it’s not like all these problems are going to go away in 2021, as if a persistent and rampant systematic racism and sexism and homophobia and oppression we see in our day to day life is going away, maybe there’s a chance we’ll have […]

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Five Thoughts on Mission: Impossible’s “The Psychic”

By Matthew Garcia | Sep 20, 2020 | Television

“The Psychic” originally broadcast on April 22, 1967. Directed by Charles Rondeau and written by William Read Woodfield and Allan Balter, this episode finds the IMF preventing a corrupt businessman from selling illegal acquired patents for top-secret defense hardware. What makes this mission impossible is hat this businessman, Lowell, has fled to South America to […]

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Five Thoughts on Five Additional Mission: Impossible Episodes

By Matthew Garcia | Sep 13, 2020 | Television

1.) The Proctor “The Frame” originally broadcast on January 26, 1967. Directed by Allen Miner and written by William Read Woodfield and Allan Balter, the episode finds the IMF working to thwart a gangster organization. What makes this mission impossible is that these gangsters, known as the Syndicate, somehow exist outside the reach of the […]

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Five Thoughts on Another Five Mission: Impossible Episodes

By Matthew Garcia | Sep 6, 2020 | Television

1.) A Long Search for a Cold Day “Snowball in Hell” originally broadcast on February 18, 1967. Directed by Lee Katzin and written by Judith and Robert Guy Barrows, the episode finds the IMF preventing a sadistic prison warden from selling nuclear secrets. What makes this mission impossible is that those secrets come by the […]

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Five Thoughts on Five More Mission: Impossible Episodes

By Matthew Garcia | Aug 30, 2020 | Television

Mission: Impossible definitely ranks among the top spy shows of all time. It’s also one of the shows that established a formula early on and found numerous creative ways to move and operate within that structure, all across 171 episodes. We’re trucking through the first season now, my friends. The train is moving and we […]

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Soliciting Multiversity: The Best of the Rest for November 2020

By Matthew Garcia | Aug 28, 2020 | Columns

November is shaping up to be a hell month in an already hellish year. Maybe some of these comics will help offer a distraction from the inevitable shitshow that will be the post-election weeks. Who even knows anymore? 10. Shake Down, 1969 The first run of “The Eternal” was already dark and bleak and cynical, […]

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Five Thoughts on Five Mission: Impossible Episodes

By Matthew Garcia | Aug 23, 2020 | Television

Mission: Impossible isn’t an easy series to binge. Less a TV series than a collection of mini-movies, the show is about the moments and the payoffs rather than the character development or overarching stories. It makes for a great hour of TV, though taking too many in a row can reveal the form and beats […]

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Five Thoughts on Mission: Impossible’s “Wheels”

By Matthew Garcia | Aug 16, 2020 | Television

“Wheels” was originally broadcast on October 29, 1966. Directed by Tom Tries and written by Laurence Heath, the episode finds the IMF dispatched to a South American country to prevent a fraudulent election, so a police-controlled right wing party won’t become a terrorist dictatorship. What makes this mission impossible is that the team not only […]

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Five Thoughts on Mission: Impossible’s “Odds on Evil”

By Matthew Garcia | Aug 9, 2020 | Television

“Odds on Evil” was originally broadcast on October 22, 1966. Directed by Charles R. Rondeau and written by William Read Woodfield and Allan Balter, the episode finds the IMF dispatched to a tiny Mediterranean principality to stop a despot from launching a war campaign. What makes this mission impossible is that the team are not […]

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Five Thoughts on Mission: Impossible’s “Old Man Out”

By Matthew Garcia | Aug 2, 2020 | Television

“Old Man Out” Part I originally broadcast on October 8th, 1966 and Part II followed a week later, on October 15th, 1966. Directed by Charles R. Rondeau (“Memory”) and written by Ellis Marcus, these episodes find the IMF attempting to break a political prisoner out of an Eastern European penitentiary. What makes this mission impossible […]

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Soliciting Multiversity: The Best of the Rest for February 2021

Soliciting Multiversity: The Best of the Rest for January 2021

Soliciting Multiversity: The Best of the Rest for December 2020

Five Thoughts on Mission: Impossible’s “The Psychic”

Five Thoughts on Five Additional Mission: Impossible Episodes

Five Thoughts on Another Five Mission: Impossible Episodes

Five Thoughts on Five More Mission: Impossible Episodes

Soliciting Multiversity: The Best of the Rest for November 2020

Five Thoughts on Five Mission: Impossible Episodes

Five Thoughts on Mission: Impossible’s “Wheels”

Five Thoughts on Mission: Impossible’s “Odds on Evil”

Five Thoughts on Mission: Impossible’s “Old Man Out”

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