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Supergirl & The Power Of Hope

By Alice W. Castle | Sep 14, 2016 | 40 Days of Supergirl, Longform

You have given them an ideal to aspire to, embodied their highest aspirations. They will race, and stumble, and fall and crawl, and curse… and finally, the will join you in the sun, Kal-El. Those words, spoken by Jor-El to this son, Kal-El, from “All-Star Superman” #12 are words that, I feel, embody Superman more […]

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Death Wish, Punisher and Teen Angst Collide in “Revenger”

By Mike Romeo | Aug 30, 2016 | Longform, Reviews

Hyper-violence is no stranger to funny books. Copious amounts of blood have been spilled on countless comics pages for nearly a century. I mean, it’s part of the reason we had the Comics Code, right? And through it all, there was a decade that was especially great for mass market brutality: the 1980s. It was […]

Flame Con: An Experience For All Comic Fans

By Jess Camacho | Aug 24, 2016 | Longform

Every year, hundreds of comic cons take place across the country. Many of these cons attempt to have panels focused on diversity but the bulk of the talent (despite being very good) has been geared toward what’s popular in the mainstream. This means you get a lot of superheroes but not a lot of the hidden […]

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Trina Robbins on Bringing Back “Dope”

By Matthew Garcia | Aug 9, 2016 | Interviews, Longform

Trina Robbins started serializing her comic, “Dope,” in the pages of “Eclipse Magazine” in 1981. She had adapted it from an old pulp novel by British writer, Sax Rohmer — a man most famous for creating Fu Manchu, the evil and racist Asian super villain. (You’ll probably recognize the mustache.) The novel Dope was written […]

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The Tragedy Fetishism Of The Flash

By Alice W. Castle | Jul 26, 2016 | Longform

The Flash is, without a doubt, one of the greatest live action superhero experiences in recent memory. Maybe, even, of all time. I wouldn’t hesitate to already place it in the upper echelon of live action superhero comic adaptations alongside Superman: The Movie, Spider-Man 2 and The Avengers. It is a landmark moment for superhero […]

ComiXology Unlimited, Or I Don’t Think That Word Means What You Think It Means

By Leo Johnson | May 26, 2016 | Longform

I just want to start by saying that I love comiXology a whole lot. It allows me, a comics fan who doesn’t live anywhere near a comic shop, to keep up with the books I love and stay current in discussions relevant to one of my favorite hobbies. ComiXology is basically my lifeline to comics […]

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Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One: Thoughts on “The Killing Joke”

By Greg Matiasevich | May 10, 2016 | Longform

With its animated adaptation only a few months away, people are talking about “The Killing Joke” more than ever before. But the conversations you hear now are different than the ones in comic shops back in 1988, 1998, or even 2008, most likely. Time hasn’t been kind to the story many fans think of as […]

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The DC Strategy: “Rebirth” for the Trinity; Status Quo for the Rest

By Brian Salvatore | Apr 5, 2016 | Longform

As we all know, DC unveiled the entirety of their “Rebirth” line at WonderCon, and much of it looked exciting and new: “Detective Comics” being a Bat-family team up book, “New Superman” from Gene Yang and Viktor Bogdonovic, etc. But there were also parts that were more of the same, some to the point of […]

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“The King’s Ankus”

By Matthew Garcia | Apr 5, 2016 | Longform

While there’s been no shortage of comic adaptations of The Jungle Book, stemming either from the original Kipling stories to the Disney animated film, perhaps the most distinguishable attempts have come from P. Craig Russell. Over the course of his career, Russell has made a name for himself by translating operas, plays, fairy tales, and […]

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Waiting for Gadot: Exhaling Batman V Superman and DC Rebirth

By Paul Lai | Mar 29, 2016 | Longform

“VLADIMIR Let us not waste our time in idle discourse! (Pause. Vehemently.) Let us do something, while we have the chance! …To all mankind they were addressed, those cries for help still ringing in our ears! But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. […]

Why “Assassination Classroom” Has Replaced “Teen Titans” For Me

By Ken Godberson III | Feb 25, 2016 | Longform

Originally, I was going to review “Teen Titans #17” this week since I kind of threw down the gauntlet and, for as Nietchzte once said: “Gaze ye not into the abyss, lest the abyss put in a pretty good writer only for three issues.” (May be paraphrasing a bit) However, with the announcement of DC’s […]

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Comics in the Spectrum Age: A Conversation with David Brothers, Image’s Branding Manager

By Paul Lai | Feb 15, 2016 | Longform

If you have attended an Image Comics panel at a convention of late, listened to the official Image Comics podcast, “The i Word,” or interacted with imagecomics.com and the company’s social media presence, then you’ve been exposed to David Brothers, branding manager, editor of Lazarus, and all-around toastmaster for the Image assemblage of empowered creators. Having […]

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“It’s the Rest of the World That’s Weird”: What Bart Allen Means to Me

By Ken Godberson III | Feb 11, 2016 | Longform

Every person that has ever picked up a piece of entertainment has a special character, whether it’s comics, video games, movies e.t.c. When it comes to superheroes, it’s not the Dark Knight I think of or the Last Son of Krypton or the First Avenger. No no. When I think of my favorite superhero in […]

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“Uncanny X-Men”, “Uncanny Inhumans” & Death in Comics

By Ken Godberson III | Jan 27, 2016 | Longform

Note: If the title didn’t make it clear, there will be massive spoilers to “Uncanny X-Men #2”, “Uncanny Inhumans #4” and a bunch of other comics that are older and I have no problem spoiling. I have made it clear, both on Twitter and on this site, I have a particular soft spot for young […]

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A Jessica Jones ‘Alias’ Conversation

By Paul Lai, Matthew Garcia and Jess Camacho | Nov 18, 2015 | Longform

Marvel’s Netflix series Jessica Jones (dropping Friday, November 20th) has already generated significant buzz and anticipation, remarkable for a character whose name recognition was Wasp-sized two years ago. But the attention has been galvanized by the quality of the Daredevil series, smart casting of lead Krysten Ritter, David Tennant as Kilgrave, Carrie-Anne Moss, Mike Colter, […]

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Autopsy of the Awful: DC’s “Teen Titans” Problem

By Ken Godberson III | Nov 10, 2015 | Longform

I have a confession to make: I was not fully on board with DC’s whole “DCYou” initiative they launched after “Convergence”, essentially a large line-up of new books in an effort to appeal to new demographics (specifically, those that didn’t compose the middle-age white, straight, male demographic). And now, it’s not because of some “Oh, […]

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The Pleasures of Peanuts

By Paul Lai | Nov 6, 2015 | Longform

The new Peanuts movie opens Friday, November 6, from 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios. The Snoopy Industrial Complex, perennially active, has kicked into high gear, circulating the newly-3D Charlie Brown and the Gang on Fox NFL Sunday, big box store ads, and all over social media in the form of Peanutized avatars of every […]

On the Anniversary of Her Death, Two Comics Celebrate Laika, the Space Dog

By Matthew Garcia | Nov 3, 2015 | Longform

On November 3, 1957, a stray dog named Kudryavka became the first animal to reach the Earth’s orbit. She never returned. It was never part of the plan for her to return. Just one month previous, on October 4, 1957, the Soviets successfully launched the first spacecraft into the planet’s orbit: it was called Sputnik […]

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Manga: A Reconciliation

By Paul Lai | Oct 26, 2015 | Longform

At Multiversity, we love comics. Sometimes, love is complicated. This is a story of why an Asian-American comics reader departed from Asian comics, and why he came back. My relationship with manga has been symptomatic of complicated relationships between culture and identity, reading and longing. But at some point, I had to ask myself those […]

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“Don’t Forget 3 Oct 11”: What Fullmetal Alchemist Means to Me

By Ken Godberson III | Oct 3, 2015 | Longform

“Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is Alchemy’s First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world’s one, and only, truth.” October 3rd is an incredibly important day to a great deal of people. […]

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Humor, Humility, and Heroism: A Conversation with Gene Luen Yang (Part 3 of 3)

By Paul Lai | Sep 30, 2015 | Longform

If you’re searching for significance in Gene Luen Yang’s oeuvre, you need look no further than his very first page: A kid’s nose is pregnant with an alien. That’s the premise introduced at the start of Yang’s “Gordon Yamamoto and the King of the Geeks,” his first published comic. I’m not going to go digging too […]

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