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“The Autumnal” #1

By John Schaidler | Sep 25, 2020 | Reviews

Kat and Sybil trade city life for a quaint northeastern town. There’s something beautiful, but deeply unsettling about the colorful leaves, especially with the fall equinox coming. (Warning: may contain minor spoilers.) Written by Daniel Kraus Illustrated by Chris Shehan Colored by Jason Wordie Lettered by Jim Campbell Following the death of her estranged mother, […]

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“Miles to Go” #1

By Kobi Bordoley | Sep 25, 2020 | Reviews

“Miles to Go” #1 takes what could have been a collection of usual crime tropes–killer with a haunted past, wayward hero with nothing to lose–and turns them into a subtle, well crafted story. “Miles to Go” #1 is a masterful first issue, and successfully marries moments of intrigue and violence with quieter, more low-key scenes. […]

“Barking”

By Jodi Odgers | Sep 25, 2020 | Reviews

Comics seek to explore themes of mental health on a fairly regular basis, but I have never seen it done as viscerally or as devastatingly as in “Barking”. Lucy Sullivan has brought the spectre of depression to live by infecting every aspect of comics with its influence, from the art style to the layouts to […]

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“Detective Comics: Batmen Eternal”

By Joe Skonce | Sep 24, 2020 | Reviews

Endings are hard, especially in comics. It’s a delicate thing, finding a way to create a sense of finality, but not close the book so hard that others can’t pick up the pieces. But with the right set of emotions and character beats, it’s not impossible. The end of James Tynion IV’s run on “Detective […]

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“The After Realm” #3

By Christa Harader | Sep 24, 2020 | Reviews

“The After Realm” #3 catches us up to Oona’s present with a troll battle, a map mishap and an old friend coming to the rescue. Warning: spoilers ahead. Written & Illustrated by Michael Avon Oeming Colored by Taki Soma Lettered by Shawn Lee Oona encounters the dead god, Odin! With his body and mind taken […]

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“X of Swords: Creation” #1

By Matthew Blair | Sep 24, 2020 | Reviews

Remember when the X-Men were a relatively simple cast of characters that were a powerful and effective stand in for discussing race relations and bigotry in 20th century America? Well, now the X-Men have their own nation on the sentient island of Krakoa and while it has proven to be a haven for mutantkind, dark […]

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“The Immortal She-Hulk” #1

By Joe Skonce | Sep 24, 2020 | Reviews

Death in comics is one of those things that’s easy to poke fun at, the idea that (with a few notable exceptions) no one stays dead. Sure characters might disappear for a while and some might come back different than when they died, but they do come back. While some have explored superheroes and their […]

“The Winter of the Cartoonist”

By Paul Lai | Sep 23, 2020 | Reviews

An able teller of subtle tales, Paco Roca retraces a pivot point in Spanish comics history in “The Winter of the Cartoonist” (Fantagraphics Books), showing with Mad Men-like nuance that there was nothing subtle about the forces shaping that vibrant and yet exploitative industry in the winter of 1957. Though specific to the cartooning heroes of Roca’s […]

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“Becoming RBG”

By Christopher Chiu-Tabet | Sep 23, 2020 | Reviews

After the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the associate justice of the US Supreme Court on Friday, it seemed like a good idea to read Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers’ graphic novel to learn more about her life and accomplishments. Written by Debbie Levy with art by Whitney Gardner, the book was only […]

The Webcomics Weekly #105: You’ve Been Chopped…Into Webtoon Format (9/22/2020 Edition)

By Multiversity Staff | Sep 22, 2020 | Reviews

Grab your food processors and stay far, far away from the ice cream machine as we dive back into another week of webcomics. I'm not being extra chipper to hide the existential fear I'm continuing to feel. Nope. Not at all. So let's all "Trekker" on an "American Road Trip" to "A Better Place" and pray that 5781 is a year when things begin the long road to positive change. Please G-d do we need our systems to be radically fixed.

Remembering Amalgam: “The Exciting X-Patrol”

By Drew Bradley | Sep 21, 2020 | Reviews

Shatterstarfire! Dial H.U.S.K! Beastling! Niles Cable! X-Patrol was so popular in 1996 that it received a spin-off, “The Exciting X-Patrol”, in 1997, and it’s the next stop on our journey through Amalgam. The Mash Up Just like “X-Patrol” in wave 1, this comic pulls from a huge number of teams from both universes, but most […]

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Wrapping Wednesday: Micro Reviews for the Week of 09/16/2020

By Rowan Grover | Sep 21, 2020 | Reviews

There’s a lot to cover on Wednesdays. We should know, as collectively, we read an insane amount of comics. Even with a large review staff, it’s hard to get to everything. With that in mind, we’re back with Wrapping Wednesday, where we look at some of the books we missed in what was another great […]

“Angel Sanctuary Vol 5 & 6”

By Justin McGuire | Sep 20, 2020 | Reviews

Kaori Yuki is writing a story of manipulation and control at the highest orders of the universe, with levels of misdirection and false fronts as complicated as you would expect from a parliament of ageless angels. At the bottom of it all is Setsuna, a boy inhabited by an Angel at the top of it […]

“Star Wars: Doctor Aphra” #34-36

By Kate Kosturski | Sep 19, 2020 | Reviews

There’s a lot of twists and turns as we close out the penultimate arc of this series, setting up a finale no one can expect. But is the script here trying too hard to do too much? Written by Si Spurrier Illustrated by Cris Bolson, Andrea Broccardo, Wilton Santos and Caspar Wijngaard Inked by Marc […]

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“Conan: Battle for the Serpent Crown” #5

By Robbie Pleasant | Sep 18, 2020 | Reviews

Ever since Conan was brought into the Marvel universe, he’s been making his mark among with the characters we know and love. In addition to “Savage Avengers,” he’s been undertaking a solo adventure in “Battle for the Serpent Crown” that has him cross paths with characters like Mephisto and Namor, so how does it end? […]

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“Detective Comics: Fall of the Batmen”

By Joe Skonce | Sep 17, 2020 | Reviews

Redemption is a tricky thing, the desire to overcome your past and be the best version of yourself you can be. There’s something admirable in trying to be better, but sometimes there are difficult roadblocks to achieving this. Usually, it’s a fixation on something unachievable, but some degree of pride forces you to want to […]

“Batman” #99

By Alexander Jones | Sep 17, 2020 | Reviews

Despite the fact that James Tynion IV has written over a dozen “Batman” issues, it still feels like his time with The Dark Knight is just getting started. Tynion and artist Jorge Jimenez’s biggest story yet, ‘The Joker War’ is coming to an end. We are here to cover the penultimate issue of the story […]

“Pulp”

By Elias Rosner | Sep 17, 2020 | Reviews

Westerns, WWII, and Crime. Put ‘em in a blender and what do you get? A slurry of strange ideas, an affinity for guns, and the questions of where the lines between lawlessness and criminality really lie or, in another word, a pulp story. Or in another, another word THIS “Pulp” story. Also lots of punching in the jaw. Why they love punching in the jaw?

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“Slaughterhouse-Five”

By Johnny Hall | Sep 17, 2020 | Reviews

If ever there was a time to feel “stuck in the amber of the moment,” it is now. It certainly seems so for Americans, where the economy has stalled out due to a nationwide pandemic that has trapped people in their homes and forcibly separated them, even from their loved ones. Where institutional forces long […]

“Giant-Sized X-Men: Storm” #1

By Kenneth Laster | Sep 17, 2020 | Reviews

“Giant-Sized X-Men: Storm” #1 is very pretty but leaves a bit more to be desired. beware spoilers! Written by Jonathan Hickman Illustrated by Russell Dauterman Colored by Matt Wilson Lettered by VC’s Ariana Maher Designed by Tom Muller HICKMAN & DAUTERMAN TAKE FLIGHT AGAIN! In GIANT-SIZE X-MEN: JEAN GREY & EMMA FROST, Hickman and Dauterman […]

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“The Manhattan Projects” Volume 6

By Luke Cornelius | Sep 16, 2020 | Reviews

Welcome to our Summer Comics Binge of “The Manhattan Projects” by Jonathan Hickman and Nick Pitarra. I’ve read work by both creators before, namely Hickman’s X title relaunch and half of “East of West” (that’s on hold until I finish “The Manhattan Projects”), and Pitarra’s short-lived “Leviathan.” I’ll be reviewing a volume of the series […]

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