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The Decade According to Multiversity: Best Mini-Series

By David Harper | Dec 8, 2009 | Columns

Best Mini-Series. This category was an extremely difficult to define one, and it is one where we basically placed any questionable call titles. Is a title not quite an OGN and not quite an ongoing? It’s now a mini. That’s basically what went with. While you may debate some of our selections as to whether […]

The Decade According to Multiversity: Best Original Graphic Novels

By David Harper | Dec 7, 2009 | Columns

For me, this is the hardest category of all to choose. There are just so many options of brilliant original graphic novels out there that I really felt like I needed to read a lot before finalizing this list. I didn’t get nearly as many titles read for this list as I would have liked […]

Saturday Showdown: DC vs. Marvel for Publisher of the Decade

By David Harper and Matthew Meylikhov | Dec 5, 2009 | Columns

When the votes were tallied for the publisher of the decade category, it was a dead split. We had two people voting for Marvel and two voting for DC, with second place going to the one each person had not voted for. It was Gil and David versus Brandon and Matt, and neither side would […]

The Decade According to Multiversity: Best Single Issue

By David Harper | Dec 4, 2009 | Columns

Unsurprisingly, this category featured the most variation for choices. Out of 30 total possible slots, there were 26 total titles chosen (Gil abstained from this category). Given the sheer amount of comics that came out I should not have been shocked, but I still was somewhat. Even more surprising? Amongst this massive mess, two of […]

Friday Recommendation: Casanova

By Gilbert Short | Dec 4, 2009 | Columns

Before Matt Fraction was killing it on Invincible Iron Man and Uncanny X-Men, he had a smaller creator owned book with Casanova. It’s a trippy sci-fi spy book put out by Image, which deserves to be read over and over again, just to peel back all the layers of the Fraction’s multilayered yarn. When I […]

The Decade According to Multiversity: Best Event

By David Harper | Dec 3, 2009 | Columns

Love them or hate them, event comics are becoming more and more prevalent in mainstream comics. Whether or not you’re lamenting them, claiming a bad case of “event fatigue” and desperately yearning for decade break from massive battles and “things will never be the same” stories, it’s hard to argue that they do not generate […]

The Decade According to Multiversity: Best Heroes

By David Harper | Dec 2, 2009 | Columns

What an incredible decade filled with huge moments from our favorite characters in the world of comics. Whether it was the return of our favorites (Hal Jordan, Barry Allen, and more), the deaths of others (Captain America, Martian Manhunter), or the creation of brand new ones (Yorick Brown, Bigby Wolf, Rick Grimes), this was a […]

This Month In Comics: A Wrap Up of the Best and Worst of November

By Brandon Burpee | Dec 1, 2009 | Columns

This Month in Comics was a mixed bag. Some truly great books were delivered to us and some absolute duds were dropped on us like turds from birds. So what was the most abysmal and what was the grandest? Well let’s take a look. Best Book of the Month: Blackest Night #5 Awesome book that […]

The Decade According to Multiversity: Best Villains

By David Harper | Dec 1, 2009 | Columns

Today’s edition of The Decade According to Multiversity, we’ll take a look at the best villains comics brought to fans. Given that this was a decade that gave us three Crises from DC, an Invasion, a Dark Reign, a Civil War, and House of M from Marvel, not to mention two types of Annihilation and […]

Small Press Spotlight: Mister Blank

By David Harper | Dec 1, 2009 | Columns

This week is a real blast from the past in my Small Press Spotlight series. I’ll be taking a look at Slave Labor Graphics’ (as part of their Amaze Ink imprint) Mister Blank, a limited series created by Christopher J. Hicks and published between 1997 and 2000. In the year 2000, I was working at […]

The Decade According to Multiversity: Comic Book Movies

By David Harper | Nov 30, 2009 | Columns

For the first day of our The Decade According to Multiversity project, we’re going to look at the best comic book movies of the decade. The ascension of comic book movies as not only a viable genre but an incredibly profitable one not only was a major news story for the decade in comics, but […]

Comics of the Decade

By David Harper | Nov 28, 2009 | Columns

Starting this Monday, November 30th, we will be posting our choices for Multiversity’s favorite comics of the decade. Gil, Matt, Brandon and myself voted for our top 10 favorite of eleven different categories and then combined those votes to come up with our comprehensive list of best titles. Those categories and when they will be […]

Friday Recommendation: The Abominable Charles Christopher

By David Harper | Nov 27, 2009 | Columns

When I originally was considering what to write about for my Friday Recommendation this week, as per usual many, many ideas popped into my head. However, I decided to go with the most unlikely option – Karl Kerschl’s brilliant (and Eisner nominated) web comic The Abominable Charles Christopher. I had not heard of it until […]

Small Press Spotlight: Terry Moore’s Echo

By David Harper | Nov 24, 2009 | Columns

This week on my Small Press Spotlight series, I have Terry Moore’s Echo as brought to us by his creator owned imprint Abstract Studio. This is the first creator owned imprint, creator owned release I’ve looked at here. Such is the life of Moore, one of the most renowned creators of the past couple decades […]

LCBS Spotlight: The Outer Limits

By Matthew Meylikhov | Nov 24, 2009 | Columns

As I wrap up my tout of Massachusetts before LCBS Spotlight begins to branch out to other states (remember: if you have something to say about your LCBS, please e-mail me a review and I’d be happy to post it here), I come ot a store I spent a great deal of time at in […]

Saturday Showdown: Mouse Guard vs. Mice Templar

By David Harper and Matthew Meylikhov | Nov 21, 2009 | Columns

On this week’s edition of Saturday Showdown, we have Matt and David once again (evidently they are argumentative) pitching their case as to which prominent mice warrior title is superior – David Petersen’s Mouse Guard or Bryan Glass and Michael Avon Oeming’s Mice Templar. We recently took a look at Mouse Guard in our Small […]

Friday Recommendation: Powers

By Matthew Meylikhov | Nov 20, 2009 | Columns

Oh Friday Recommendation. How I’ve missed you. There are so many books I wish to recommend, so much to talk about. The reason for my prolonged absence in writing this column is my own fault. I wanted to hold off so I and I alone could have the pleasure of writing this particular article. That […]

LCBS Spotlight: Bedrock Comics

By Matthew Meylikhov | Nov 17, 2009 | Columns

We’re coming close to the end of MA reign of LCBS spotlights. While there are several stores I’ve been too that are worth mentioning, I don’t visit them enough in order to be able to write concise commentary on the store. As far as memory serves, there’s only two stores I have left that I […]

Small Press Spotlight: Blankets

By David Harper | Nov 17, 2009 | Columns

In this week’s edition of my Small Press Spotlight series, I’m targeting one of the most critically lauded and popular graphic novels of the past decade: Craig Thompson’s Blankets. This title was released by Top Shelf Productions in 2003, and has since went on to win Harvey, Eisner and Ersatz awards for his writing, art, […]

Saturday Showdown: Who is Norman’s Secret Weapon?

By David Harper, Matthew Meylikhov, Gilbert Short and Brandon Burpee | Nov 14, 2009 | Columns

With Brian Michael Bendis’ Dark Reign culminating event Siege coming up, there is a lot of excitement. We have the return of the classic Avengers, we have an epic battle over the fate of Asgard, and much, much more. Yet perhaps the plot point that is being received with the most interest on the eve […]

Friday Recommendation: Madame Mirage

By Gilbert Short | Nov 13, 2009 | Columns

A small beef was ignited a couple of weeks ago during our Francis Manapul. It was nothing serious, and I don’t even think anyone at Top Cow was truly miffed, but our interviewer made a small crack about the genre of so called “T & A” comics and it was misconstrued as us not liking […]

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