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Multiversity 101 – Whatever Happened to the Marriage of Tomorrow?

By Joshua Mocle | Sep 5, 2011 | Longform

Last week saw the much anticipated launch of the DCnU and while we haven’t been able to dive into 51 of the “New 52” yet, there has been a disturbingly consistent trend made evident by the pre-release info for these books: apparently when the DCU restructured after Flashpoint, marriage didn’t exist. Now obviously I’m exaggerating […]

Multiversity 101: Breaking Down the DCnU

By David Harper | Aug 29, 2011 | Longform

This week brings the moment the whole industry has been waiting for: the launch of the DCnU. Wednesday brings the last issue of Flashpoint as well as the first issue of Justice League from Geoff Johns and Jim Lee, and the beginning of a whole new era of DC Comics that could be a boon […]

Multiversity 101: Comic Overload

By Joshua Mocle | Aug 22, 2011 | Longform

It’s moving season time again! These next few weeks are a busy time for many of us as whether we are heading back to school or, like me, running out our leases and moving into new places to live (yeah, maybe I’m aging myself with that statement but I think the average age of most […]

Op/Ed: The Deadpool Discussion 2 – Electric Boogaloo

By Matthew Meylikhov | Jul 27, 2011 | Longform

I was talking to my friend Kristin (artist of Control, new page out today! /shameless plug) about comics coming out today, and the conversation came to “characters we love whose books we hate.” I mentioned Deadpool – who has a one-shot I’m remotely interested in reading – and the conversation turned to why I don’t […]

Multiversity 101: The DCnU vs. Diversity – Myths and Realities

By Matthew Meylikhov | Jul 25, 2011 | Longform

It is without a doubt that if you are even remotely the tiniest of comic book fan, you have heard about the epic change-up coming in September with the DCnU. The quick recap is: Flashpoint ends in August, and with it the entire DC Universe is relaunched. This means new books, new creative teams, and […]

Multiversity 101: The Changing Face of the LCS

By Joshua Mocle | Jul 18, 2011 | Longform

Right before I sat down to write this article (give or take a few hours), I filled out my first sub-order form in a very very long time. Having a local comic shop hold your books for you every week may seem like a simple no-brainer for some, but for me it’s often been a […]

Multiversity 101 Special Edition: Observations at the Half

By Joshua Mocle | Jul 11, 2011 | Longform

Alright you voracious viewers, you! This week we’ve got a special edition Multiversity 101 for you. Last week saw the release of new chapters of both Marvel’s latest “Earth Shattering Event” Fear Itself and DC’s current blockbuster that promises to “change everything forever,” Flashpoint (although this time they might not be lying). As we usually […]

Multiversity 101: How Alan Moore Saved Comics

By David Harper | Jun 27, 2011 | Longform

Pretty soon, everyone can own Action Comics #1 and Uncanny X-Men #1. These collectors items, previously likely to set you back somewhere between thousands and millions of dollars can be acquired for a cool $3.99. Not bad for a legendary collectors item. Except they aren’t the genuine article. The former is a renumbering of the […]

Multiversity 101: The Art of the False Start

By Joshua Mocle | Jun 20, 2011 | Longform

The Twelve. All-Star Batman and Robin. Daredevil: The Target. Image United. Four different books from three different companies starring wildly different characters. What do they have in common? Well, that would be the fact that their next issue is now horribly and unforgivably late, and given the caliber of the creators working on them, it […]

Multiversity vs the DCnU: An Open Letter To Geoff Johns

By Matthew Meylikhov | Jun 13, 2011 | Longform

With the last few weeks we’ve enjoyed the show that DC has put on in order to entice us all into checking out their rebooted titles. They’ve given us a wide spectrum of books to choose from, all at a reasonably affordable price and specifically with jumping on points for all walks of life. Of […]

Multiversity 101: Shaking off the Dirt

By Joshua Mocle | Jun 6, 2011 | Longform

In mainstream comics, the concept of a team book is almost as old as the medium itself. The advent of the super hero team was essentially an excuse to get the biggest of the big all in one book together, however if you look at Marvel’s premiere super hero team The Avengers, you find that […]

Multiversity 101: Looking At The Big Flashpoint Reboot

By Multiversity Staff | Jun 1, 2011 | Longform

Article originally written by Ryan Closs I had been working on another Multiversity 101 for this week, talking about making page count a primary factor in your comic buying decisions and how (spoilers) that’s a stupid thing to do. That said, I didn’t have much more to say than that, so when the rumors of […]

Multiversity 101: Compare & Contrast – Brian Michael Bendis & Geoff Johns

By Multiversity Staff | May 17, 2011 | Longform

Article originally written by Ryan Closs It’s been a fairly slow news week, at least as far as comics go. I usually try and use some news as a springboard, but since there’s nothing from which to spring this week I figured I’d do some comparing and contrasting. Let’s gather round and look at the […]

Multiversity 101: Snowflakes

By Joshua Mocle | May 9, 2011 | Longform

For those of you who haven’t read Warren Ellis and John Cassaday’s phenomenal epic Planetary (and shame on you for THAT), you would have missed one of the most inspiring and apt representations of the idea of a multiverse conceived within the medium (in my slightly-enlightened opinion anyway); that of a stunningly beautiful snowflake. The […]

Multiversity 101: Comics Addiction – A Rebuttal

By Multiversity Staff | Apr 25, 2011 | Longform

Article originally written by Ryan Closs So last week my M101 co-writer, the esteemed Joshua Mocle, took a bit of IM conversation between us and used it to springboard an interesting look at Comics Addiction (the actual existence of which is a little dubious in my mind). I figured this week I could share my […]

Multiversity 101: Comics Anonymous #1

By Joshua Mocle | Apr 18, 2011 | Longform

I find it excessively appropriate to begin this particular piece with a conversation snippet between myself and my M101 co-writer Ryan Closs: JM: Marvel is fucking with me personally, and I am not amused. Seven double shipping books (in June??) Seriously??RC: So you get more good books/month, and?JM: My wallet isn’t made of money!RC: So […]

Multiversity 101: Sketches Anonymous

By Multiversity Staff | Apr 12, 2011 | Longform

Article originally written by Ryan Closs Hi, my name is Ryan and I’m a comic art addict. I guess I can trace my addiction back to Fanexpo 2009. I had been to my first comic convention earlier that year (NYCC) and, while awesome, I never even went into Artist Alley. I thought it was intimidating […]

Multiversity 101: One and Done

By Joshua Mocle | Apr 4, 2011 | Longform

Firstly, I have to say that it being convention season makes writing a comic industry/culture column with the specific goal of ripping topics from the headlines so much easier. That said, amongst the myriad of announcements to arise from this weekend’s Wondercon, the one that I want to focus on happens to be the take-over […]

Multiversity 101: What’s With the Mini Hate?

By Multiversity Staff | Mar 28, 2011 | Longform

Article originally written by Ryan Closs Something about EiC Matt’s review of Nonplayer stuck out to me: he docked it for not being an ongoing. That doesn’t sit well with me, and it brings up something I’ve noticed among comic readers these days (and I felt the same way for a long time), that mini-series […]

Multiversity 101: What’s Old is New and New is Blah Blah

By Joshua Mocle | Mar 21, 2011 | Longform

Amongst the myriad of news and rumored news to come arising out of Chicago this past weekend, one particularly stood out to me: the supposed renumbering of Captain America. Now, I really shouldn’t be surprised. There’s a Captain America movie coming out and Marvel needs to capitalize on that as much as they can (or […]

Multiversity 101: The Hard Pitch

By Multiversity Staff | Mar 14, 2011 | Longform

Article originally written by Ryan Closs One of my favourite (sporadically published) books, RASL, has just been optioned as a movie, so I figured this was a good a time as any to talk about the growing trend of a) comics being turned into movies and b) comics being used as some kind of movie […]

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