Multiversity Rewind

Robots From Tomorrow – Episode 216: Janson & Fiffe In Conversation [Podcast]

By Greg Matiasevich | Aug 6, 2015 | Podcasts

This week we’re bringing you the second of our two HeroesCon 2015 episodes: a conversation between Michel Fiffe & Klaus Janson. They may be from two different generations of the industry, but make no mistake: these guys are of one mind when it comes to making great comics. And they aren’t afraid to speak that […]

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ColumnsReviews

Multiversity Manga Club: Jaco the Galactic Patrolman [Review]

By Zach Wilkerson | Jul 30, 2015 | Columns, Reviews

Welcome back to the inaugural edition of the Multiversity Manga Club! This month’s reading was the delightful “Jaco the Galactic Patrolman,” written and illustrated by the legendary Akira Toriyama. Originally serialized in the pages of “Weekly Shonen Jump,” “Jaco” is a delightful action comedy that pays homage to “Dragon Ball” and various popular manga tropes. […]

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Podcasts

Robots From Tomorrow – Episode 214: Kamandi, The Last Boy on Earth [Podcast]

By Mike Romeo and Greg Matiasevich | Jul 30, 2015 | Podcasts

In 1970, DC proclaimed, “The Great One Is Coming!” And they were right! Jack “The King” Kirby went across the street from Marvel to the Distinguished Competition and hit their publishing line like an atomic bomb. The New Gods! Mister Miracle! The Forever People! The Demon! Omac! But few of them had the specific impact […]

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Podcasts

Robots From Tomorrow – Episode 212: Jack Davis at BCGF 2011 [Podcast]

By Mike Romeo | Jul 23, 2015 | Podcasts

While sorting through the digital bric-a-brac that litters the subterranian RFT recording studio, we came across something very special buried deep on a harddrive. Back in December 2011, the one and only Jack Davis was the guest of honor at the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics festival. Fantagraphics had just released “Drawing American Pop Culture,” a […]

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Longform

What Censorship Looks Like: The “Palomar” Library Challenge Emails

By Greg Matiasevich | Jul 20, 2015 | Longform

The story of Rio Rancho High School pulling the Gilbert Hernandez graphic novel “Palomar” from their library due to a parent challenging it as “child pornography” has received a fair amount of attention since it broke last February. We’ve covered it several times on this site. But new facts have come to light. Specifically, internal […]

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Longform

Welcome to the Spectrum Age

By Paul Lai | Jul 14, 2015 | Longform

Following Saturday’s Eisner Awards announcements at San Diego Comic Con, comics watchers’ commentaries will no doubt note that despite standbys like JH Williams III, Dave Stewart, and Darwyn Cooke, the industry is again spotlighting its diversity of subjects, audiences, and creators: “Lumberjanes” came away a big winner, Venezuelan artist Jorge Corona got Russ Manning Award-love, […]

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Longform

“Airboy” #2: A Discussion

By Brian Salvatore and Alice W. Castle | Jul 13, 2015 | Longform

We at Multiversity try to be an even handed bunch – sure, we get fired up about our funny books, but we always try to react to industry news or controversies with a measured response. So, when “Airboy” #2 got released, we wanted to comment on it, but we also wanted to do so in […]

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Interviews

Capullo & Snyder on Bat-Thoughts, Bat-Drinks, and “Batman #42” [Interview]

By Greg Matiasevich | Jul 9, 2015 | Interviews

Fifteen minutes. That’s how big of a window I was working with in my phone interview with Greg Capullo and Scott Snyder about their latest issue of “Batman”. Fifteen minutes may sound like a lot, and in sports it can be an eternity of eternities, but I’ve found that you rarely ever feel like you […]

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Podcasts

Robots From Tomorrow – Episode 208: John Arcudi Talks “Rumble” and Leaving “BPRD” [Podcast]

By Mike Romeo | Jul 8, 2015 | Podcasts

As part of their early SDCC announcements, Dark Horse Comics revealed that John Arcudi will be leaving “BPRD” after over a decade as the writer of the series. His tenure will wrap up with issue #147 as he closes out the “Hell on Earth” cycle that began back in 2010. John talks about coming to […]

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Podcasts

Robots From Tomorrow- Episode 196: Daredevil: Born Again [Podcast]

By Mike Romeo | May 28, 2015 | Podcasts

The Man Without Fear is riding a new wave of popularity thanks to having a hit Netflix show under his belt, so Mike & Greg turn their heightened comic senses on one of, if not the, seminal story about Matt Murdock: Frank Miller & David Mazzucchelli’s ‘Born Again’. From singles to digital to trade paperback […]

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Reviews

“Style and Fashion Zine” #2 May Be The Nicest Comic I Own [Review]

By Mike Romeo | May 19, 2015 | Reviews

I firmly believe that a huge part of a comic’s magic comes from the object that is the comic itself. It’s easy to think that once pages are inked and colored and the lettering is all in place that the comic is finished. And while, yes, the comic is done, it hasn’t been completed. There […]

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Mignolaversity: The Hellboy Universe Reading Order ― 2015

By Mark Tweedale | May 18, 2015 | Annotations

This is an older reading order. Please check out the 2023 version. Last year, I created a reading order for the Hellboy Universe with the help of Scott Allie. It was an involved process. We considered the publishing order, the internal chronology, the order of certain reveals, the development of certain themes… The order we […]

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