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Steve, Peggy, Diana & Steve: The Problem With Time Lost Love Interests

By Corrina Lawson | Jan 13, 2021 | Longform

What do you do with love interests when you shift iconic characters from their original time to the modern day? In comics, because the situation has literally decades to play out, the answer has been to create new ones. In movies, the solution isn’t so simple or even successful. Marvel and DC have both flubbed […]

Star Wars: The Selfless Force

By Jaina Hill | Jan 1, 2021 | Longform

Before we bid 2020 a final farewell, we share some of our favorite writing from the past year. We wish all of you a happy and healthy New Year, with the hope for brighter days in 2021. What makes someone strong with the Force? After all, it surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the galaxy […]

Jews in DC and the Uncomfortable Anti-Semitism of One Harley Quinn

By Elias Rosner | Jan 1, 2021 | Longform

Before we bid 2020 a final farewell, we share some of our favorite writing from the past year. We wish all of you a happy and healthy New Year, with the hope for brighter days in 2021. I recently caught up on season one of Harley Quinn, thirteen episodes of hilarious TV-MA comedy that focuses […]

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My Year in Comics: Return to What Brought Me to Comics

By Greg Lincoln | Dec 31, 2020 | Longform

2020 disrupted all our lives. It made us feel unsafe and uncertain about so much of everyday life. My work schedule before the pandemic made it possible for me to pick up my comics on Wednesday, just like when I worked in a comic shop. All that came to a screeching halt in March, when […]

On Ahsoka Tano

By Jaina Hill | Dec 17, 2020 | Longform

Ahsoka Tano was first introduced in 2008’s Star Wars: The Clone Wars. And from this appearance alone, I hated her. She was meant to be the Padawan of Anakin Skywalker, a huge part of his life who he had never mentioned in any of the movies. Young Ahsoka had a real plucky attitude. She didn’t […]

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The Future of the MCU – What We Learned from Disney’s Investor Day 2020

By Jaina Hill | Dec 11, 2020 | Longform

There were a lot of announcements at Disney’s so-called Investor Day 2020. And it’s tough to know how to feel! On the one hand, the entire event is so emblematic of the Disney corporation’s crass commercialism that it’s kind of repulsive. But on the other hand… I love Marvel. I love Star Wars. I love […]

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Ten Comic Books That Would Make Great Video Games

By Christopher Chiu-Tabet | Oct 2, 2020 | Longform

It’s an exciting time to be a comic book reader and video gamer, between Marvel’s Avengers and Spider-Man: Miles Morales; DC’s newly announced Gotham Knights and Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League; and the upcoming Sam & Max VR game, as well as The Wolf Among Us 2. Your thoughts may vary wildly on the […]

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The Surprising Success of Stargirl

By Brian Salvatore | Aug 10, 2020 | Longform

In a lot of ways, Stargirl should have been anathema to my tastes. James Robinson’s “Starman” is my favorite comic series of all time, and I have a deep, deep love for the way that Robinson, David Goyer, Tom Peyer, and Geoff Johns took the inactive Justice Society of America and brought them back to […]

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“Black Stars Above,” Cosmic Horror that Looks Forward by Peering Back

By James Dowling | Jul 27, 2020 | Longform

Sometimes you find comics or films or really any kind of media that you wish everyone was talking about. You fall in love with something that feels special and you’re left waiting for the rest of the world to notice it, “Black Stars Above” is that for me. It comes from three criminally underappreciated talents: […]

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The Best Case Scenario: A Hollywood “Sailor Moon” Movie

By Christopher Chiu-Tabet | Jul 22, 2020 | Longform

If you spend a lot of time in the artistic circles of Twitter, you may have noticed the “Redraw Sailor Moon” challenge was a popular trend in May 2020, with everyone offering their own (sincere or comedic) take on an intense screenshot from the anime. It seems, 28 years after her debut, Naoko Takeuchi’s manga […]

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A Look at the Locations of “Virtually Yours” with Writer Jeremy Holt

By Brian Salvatore | Jul 13, 2020 | Longform

Last week, comiXology Originals announced a new original graphic novel, “Virtually Yours,” by Jeremy Holt and Elizabeth Beals. The book, a modern twist on a romantic comedy, took inspiration from many real places that pop up in the book. Holt talks us through some of the locations, and shows off some of Beals panels that […]

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Batman Begins — 15 Thoughts for the 15th Anniversary

By Christopher Chiu-Tabet | Jun 15, 2020 | Longform

It’s hard to believe, but 15 years ago, well before the Marvel Cinematic Universe became the highest-grossing film franchise in the world, moviegoers were pretty skeptical about a new Batman film. Batman Begins wasn’t a monstrous hit like its sequels, grossing only $373.4 million worldwide against a $150 million budget, but director Christopher Nolan and […]

No New Comics? No Problem!

By Kate Kosturski | Apr 8, 2020 | Longform

It almost seems like a cruel April Fool’s joke: no New Comic Book Day. But it wasn’t. It was the reality of April 1, 2020, as COVID-19 continues its assault on the world, shutting down non-essential businesses (which includes comic shops, as much as we would all want to argue otherwise), and eventually, Diamond Comics […]

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Exclusive Preview and Essay: “A House Divided: The Accursed Inheritance of Henrietta Achilles”

By Brian Salvatore | Apr 1, 2020 | Longform

Next week, Graphic Universe will release “A House Divided: The Accursed Inheritance of Henrietta Achilles,” the first volume in a four part series by Haiko Hörnig and Marius Pawlitza. To celebrate the release, we’ve got both an exclusive first look at the book, as well as an essay from writer Hörnig about how Henrietta Achilles […]

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Exclusive: Julian Peters Shares “Birches” and Discusses Poetry Ahead of His New Anthology

By Brian Salvatore | Mar 26, 2020 | Longform

Poetry can be a tough sell for some people, for reasons that aren’t really apparent. We all sing along to song lyrics, and what are song lyrics if not poetry? Maybe it is the experience of being taught poetry in a stuffy way in school that turned folks off? Regardless, Julian Peters wants to change […]

My Comics Decade: An Uneasy Alliance

By Brian Salvatore | Jan 3, 2020 | Longform

It is incredible to think about to just how different comics fit into the cultural landscape in 2010 versus 2020. By January 3, 2010, exactly two entries in the Marvel Cinematic Universe had been released, one of which was a meager success at best. It had been years since comics themselves, not adaptations, had been […]

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Greg Lockard on Germany and “Liebestrasse”

By Brian Salvatore | Dec 26, 2019 | Longform

Last month, comiXology Originals released “Liebestrasse,” a new original graphic novel by writer Greg Lockard and artist Tim Fish. The book takes place in Germany, and Lockard has twice been to Berlin; the experiences there acted as partial inspiration for “Liebestrasse.” Lockard wrote an essay about the experiences, which we are happy to exclusively share […]

5 Cinematic Tricks That Influenced “In the Flood” by Ray Fawkes

By Multiversity Staff | Dec 23, 2019 | Longform

On December 12, comiXology Originals announced “In the Flood,” a new OGN by Ray Fawkes (“Intersect,” “One Soul”), which came out less than a week later on December 18th. Fawkes is one of the most unique and inspiring cartoonists working today, and so we were thrilled when comiXology asked us if we would like to […]

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Chris Callahan Talks the Afterlife and “The Misplaced”

By Multiversity Staff | Dec 11, 2019 | Longform

Last month, Source Point Press released the first issue of “The Misplaced,” a new miniseries by Chris Callahan. The story is…well, let’s let the solicitation tell the story: Written and illustrated by Chris Callahan From the mind of television graphic designer Chris Callahan comes the first of a 4-issue supernatural mystery miniseries that will leave […]

The Gargoyles Spin-Offs That Never Happened

By Christopher Chiu-Tabet | Nov 26, 2019 | Longform

Disney’s cult classic series Gargoyles recently marked its 25th anniversary, and is beginning to find a whole new audience on the Disney+ streaming service. The possibility of the show’s revival has never been higher, and with that in mind we decided to take a look at the seven known proposed spin-offs, which were developed by […]

What Tom Spurgeon Built

By Benjamin Birdie | Nov 14, 2019 | Longform

There’s a very specific way someone in comics takes a compliment. There’s a step back; sometimes subtle, sometimes pronounced; and some kind of verbal admission of surprise that precedes the one of gratitude. The best and nicest people that read or make or write about comics are always surprised when you tell them how much […]

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