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Multiversity 101 – Putting a Ring on It

By Joshua Mocle | Mar 7, 2011 | Longform

Over the last couple of years, a somewhat unprecedented (within the relatively short history of the medium) number of company exclusive agreements have taken hold within the realm of mainstream comics. While the idea of a creator exclusively working with a given publisher is not a new one, it seems like its becoming standard practice […]

Multiversity 101: Digital Comics State of the Union

By Multiversity Staff | Feb 28, 2011 | Longform

Article originally written by Ryan Closs Please welcome into the Multiversity fold our newest contributor Ryan Closs, who will be joining us for Multiversity 101! Back in 2009 digital comics were primarily an illegal collection of scans you could read on your computers. 2010 brought us the iPad and a handful of apps to buy […]

Multiversity 101 – Death on the Quarters

By Joshua Mocle | Feb 21, 2011 | Longform

Last week, Marvel Vice President David Gabriel made quite the controversial announcement. Apparently, after the wildly successful marketing push surrounding the death of Johnny Storm over in Fantastic Four last month (and before that, the death of Captain America back in 2007), Marvel has decided to make large character death a normal occurrence at least […]

Multiversity 101: To Cape or Not to Cape?

By Joshua Mocle | Feb 7, 2011 | Longform

Legendary creator Eric Powell made waves this past week with a rather untoward personal manifesto on the state of independent comic books. Don’t go looking for it though, as fan and creator response to the video resulted in Powell (quite uncharacteristically, in my opinion) taking the video down rather hastily. Finding it after the fact […]

Multiversity 101: Myths and Realities (Creator Edition)

By David Harper | Jan 28, 2011 | Longform

As a supplement to my Multiversity 101: Myths and Realities post from earlier, I wanted to share all of the responses I got from creators about the industry’s inability to draw in new readers (and what books they think would be good to hook new readers). I polled a wide variety of creators and critics […]

Multiversity 101: Myths and Realities About the Next Generation of Comic Fans

By David Harper | Jan 28, 2011 | Longform

Whenever fan fervor boils over to the point of a near online movement, it’s hard not to stand up and notice…and that’s what happened recently when Marvel announced that they were canceling Roger Langridge and Chris Samnee’s beloved (but short-lived) Thor: The Mighty Avenger. This book was a) all-ages friendly, b) critically lauded and c) […]

Op/Ed: Why Do We Insist On Spoiling The Things We Love?

By Matthew Meylikhov | Jan 26, 2011 | Longform

Today/yesterday is the day that Fantastic Four #587 hits, offering up fans the answer to the question every fan of Marvel has been asking themselves for several months now: Which one of Marvel’s First Family is going to die? Or rather – it would have if the answer hadn’t been spectacularly branded across news sites […]

Multiversity 101: The Last Days of the CCA

By Joshua Mocle | Jan 23, 2011 | Longform

This past week was a bit of a watershed moment for comics…and I bet most readers didn’t notice or care and, frankly, I’m gonna go ahead and say thats a good thing (for once). Even without the graphic to the left, you’d probably recognize the familiar seal of the Comics Code Authority. It’s been prominent […]

Multiversity 101: A Matter of Concern Involving Mattering

By Joshua Mocle | Jan 9, 2011 | Longform

Let’s face it, we all have our own particular reasoning for the comics we buy and the comics we don’t. We all have our irrational connections to a given series or to our favorite characters and we all make certain jumps in logic when shopping for funny books. But in recent years, a new and […]

Multiversity 101: Best and Worst of 2010

By David Harper | Jan 2, 2011 | Longform

The first Sunday of 2011 brings what is hopefully the first in a year straight of Multiversity 101’s. This article was started in 2009 here to give us a column of industry analysis and thoughts on the happenings in comics, but we grew rather inconsistent with its release. This year, fellow MC writer Josh Mocle […]

Multiversity 101: The Triumphant Return of $2.99 (or is it?)

By Joshua Mocle | Oct 30, 2010 | Longform

Welcome, you voracious viewers you, to the triumphant return of Multiversity 101! This week we’re going to look at some recent upheavals within the industry in the wake of the upcoming price shift by some companies BACK to a $2.99 price-point for standard 22 page comic books. We’ll take a look back at the $3.99 […]

Multiversity 101: The Present and Future of Anthologies

By Walt Richardson | Aug 1, 2010 | Longform

Back in the early days of comics, nearly every issue was an anthology of multiple stories. Granted, that’s partially because the stories were compressed to the point that what we’re used to taking five issues occurred in only five pages, but that’s besides the point. The anthology-based approach, which used to be the standard, has […]

Multiversity 101: Gratuitous Storytelling In Comics

By Matthew Meylikhov | Jun 13, 2010 | Longform

If there’s one thing that I’ve noticed lately as far as internet discussions go, it’s that everyone wants to throw in their two cents in about the dark side of comic books – the side that revolves around the darkest emotions and events. Of course, this is spawned by the actions taken in certain comic […]

Multiversity 101: Waiting For Trade

By Matthew Meylikhov | May 16, 2010 | Longform

We’ve all heard or used this phrase before. “Are you reading Chew?” “No, I’m waiting for trade.” It happens. In today’s economy, a lot of people find that buying comics on a weekly basis is simply not feasible. It’s unfortunate, but it happens. This is one of the reasons why companies release collected versions of […]

Multiversity 101: We’re a Year Old…Now What?

By David Harper | May 2, 2010 | Longform

In the past year, Multiversity has grown by leaps and bounds. We’ve added new writers, created a bunch of new columns, reviewed damn near everything that was reviewable, talked to a laundry list of creators, and become a small but viable voice in the world of comic criticism. We’re young, but we sure try hard. […]

Multiversity 101: $3.99 is the New $2.99

By David Harper | Apr 25, 2010 | Longform

When I first started Multiversity 101, one of my initial goals was to try and find a reason why the average age of comic fans continues to grow and why readers that are children are disappearing. When I was a kid, I’d go to the comic shop and flip through issues of X-Men or Wolverine […]

Multiversity 101: Premature Solicitation

By Matthew Meylikhov | Apr 18, 2010 | Longform

We live in a digital age. Everything is available to us for a few clever Google searches and a few clicks of the mouse button. We no longer have to wait for a movie to come out to know how it ends because someone somewhere saw it and they’ll write it all online. We no […]

Multiversity 101: The Actually Amazing Spider-Man

By Matthew Meylikhov | Apr 4, 2010 | Longform

Or: How I Learned To Stop Fanboy Crying And Learn To Love ‘One More Day’ Yeah, you read the subtitle right: I openly support One More Day, which is easily the most maligned Spider-Man “event” of the past decade. I can’t even count the amount of times that I’ve walked into a comic store and […]

Multiversity 101: Understanding Grant Morrison

By Matthew Meylikhov | Mar 28, 2010 | Longform

Last week when I wrote the Batman article, I noticed that a few of the comments through links mentioned that it gave the reader “a new appreciation for Grant Morrison’s style.” As much as this is a legitimate site for news, reviews, and everything in between, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that […]

Multiversity 101: The Bat Man

By Matthew Meylikhov | Mar 21, 2010 | Longform

Apparently it’s Batweek at Multiversity Comics for the first time in our history! Last week we published a lot of Bat-related material, which is usually against what I want for the site (save it for the God damn Batblog!). However, just as earlier this week Gil tackled the misunderstanding of Batman, I too am going […]

Multiversity 101: The Event Part 3 – The Solution?

By Matthew Meylikhov | Mar 14, 2010 | Longform

The first week I broke down the Event: what we can usually expect from our events, what works and what doesn’t. The second week I tackled the Tie-Ins: why they exist, why we buy them, and when we need to buy them. Today, I’m going to tell you how it should be done, and I’m […]

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