2017 Year in Review

My Comics Year: Thinking Critically

By Elias Rosner | Jan 4, 2018 | Columns

Back in May of 2017, I started writing for Multiversity Comics, with a micro review of “Spider-Gwen” #20. While the first draft was anything but micro (I sent in about a full review’s worth of material I had to chop down), writing was a surprising struggle. The more I looked at the book, the more […]

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Interviews

An Interview With Our Best Writer of 2017, Jeff Lemire.

By Brian Salvatore | Jan 4, 2018 | Interviews

As revealed at the end of last year, the Multiversity staff voted Jeff Lemire as the best writer of 2017. Not only that, but his “Black Hammer” garnered the #1 ongoing series spot from both the staff and readers, and “Royal City” was one of our best new series as well. Clearly, we feel that […]

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Columns

2017 Creators Year in Review: Hopes for 2018

By Multiversity Staff | Dec 30, 2017 | Columns

Every year, we send out a survey to a wide variety of creators and ask them questions about the year in comics. We had an incredible response this year, and got creators from all corners of the comics world to weigh in one what they loved about comics in 2017. Every day this week, we […]

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Columns

My Comics Year: An Expat Nerd in China’s Podcast Picks

By Matt Sadowski | Dec 29, 2017 | Columns

Living in China for four years doesn’t do much to feed one’s comic book fandom. Sure, Marvel and DC have brought comics to the mainstream via superhero franchises, and this success is readily apparent in China (look no further than meteoric box office numbers or Hollywood’s relentless pandering to Chinese audiences). Children know and love […]

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Columns

My Comics Year: Making Comics

By Leo Johnson | Dec 29, 2017 | Columns

During 2017, I probably read fewer comics than I did in 2016. There’s a number of reasons for that – work was busy, I was traveling more, whatever, but one of the major ones had to be that I was also making comics during 2017 too. Don’t get me wrong here, I’m not some indie […]

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Columns

2017 Creators Year in Review: New Discoveries of 2017

By Multiversity Staff | Dec 29, 2017 | Columns

Every year, we send out a survey to a wide variety of creators and ask them questions about the year in comics. We had an incredible response this year, and got creators from all corners of the comics world to weigh in one what they loved about comics in 2017. Every day this week, we […]

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Columns

2017 Creators Year in Review: Best Artists of 2017

By Multiversity Staff | Dec 28, 2017 | Columns

Every year, we send out a survey to a wide variety of creators and ask them questions about the year in comics. We had an incredible response this year, and got creators from all corners of the comics world to weigh in one what they loved about comics in 2017. Every day this week, we […]

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Columns

In Memoriam: The Screen Heroes We Lost in 2017

By Christopher Chiu-Tabet | Dec 28, 2017 | Columns

It’s often said 2016 was the year our heroes died, while 2017 was the year they disappointed us. Meanwhile, on the big and small screen many of our favorite fictional characters were finding themselves confronted by their failures, and that most elusive of foes in comics, mortality. Be warned: there are spoilers follow for all […]

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Columns

My Comics Year: The Changing Face of Comics Journalism

By Matt Lune | Dec 27, 2017 | Columns

2017 marked the first year that I properly dedicated myself to comics journalism. I’ve been writing things for sites for a number of years now, as well as joining people on podcasts and even dabbling in one myself with a friend, but from the start of this year, I began writing reviews regularly for Multiversity. […]

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Columns

2017 Creators Year in Review: Best Writers of 2017

By Multiversity Staff | Dec 27, 2017 | Columns

Every year, we send out a survey to a wide variety of creators and ask them questions about the year in comics. We had an incredible response this year, and got creators from all corners of the comics world to weigh in one what they loved about comics in 2017. Every day this week, we […]

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Columns

My Comics Year: A Shop Grows in Brooklyn

By Kate Kosturski | Dec 26, 2017 | Columns

April 29, 2017 was remarkable in some ways. There was the People’s Climate March. Pope Francis celebrated Mass in Cairo following two bombings of Coptic Christian churches in Egypt earlier that week. It was also the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, which was not attended by a sitting president for the first time in a generation. […]

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Reader Poll

2017 in Review: Readers’ Choice for Best Ongoing Series

By Brian Salvatore | Dec 26, 2017 | Reader Poll

Last week, we unveiled our top 10 ongoing series of 2017, topped by “Black Hammer” by Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston. Later that same day, we asked you to vote on your favorite series of 2017 was, based on our top 10. Obviously, many of our readers would have picked a different top ten, but […]

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