Saturday Showdown

Saturday Showdown – Avengers Round-Up

By Matthew Meylikhov and Gilbert Short | Aug 21, 2010 | Columns

There are 7 Avengers titles on the market right now. No, seriously! There’s Avengers, New Avengers, Secret Avengers, Avengers Academy, Avengers: Prime, Ultimate Comics Avengers 3, and Avengers: Children’s Crusade – and that doesn’t even include all the mini’s that are planned (such as Avengers and the Infinity Gauntlet, out this week by Atomic Robo […]

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Sunday Showdown: The Harvey Off

By David Harper and Matthew Meylikhov | Jul 18, 2010 | Columns

This past week saw the announcement of the 2010 Harvey Award nominations, and with any sort of award nominations you both get analysis of the nominees as well as talk about who didn’t make it that should have made it. The Harvey Awards are no different, and to discuss these nominations we’ve got myself and […]

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Sunday Showdown: Did Kick-Ass in fact, Kick Ass?

By Gilbert Short and Matthew Meylikhov | Apr 18, 2010 | Columns

This last weekend, Marvel’s latest entry into the Theatrical arena hit screens across the country, and it has been nearly ubiquitous. On every comics-related website you go to, there are articles covering nearly every bit of it. Well, we here at Multiversity are no different, as we’ve discussed the movie from the script stages all […]

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Sunday Showdown: Eisner Choices

By David Harper and Walt Richardson | Apr 12, 2010 | Columns

Today we’re back with a delayed version of Saturday Showdown, now Sunday Showdown due my obsessive need for sociability and the horrors of alcohol consumption. On this week’s showdown, Walt and I go over all of the Eisner nominations and select who we think was the finest example in each category. In a year where […]

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Saturday Showdown: Most Anticipated Title of 2010

By Matthew Meylikhov, David Harper, Gilbert Short and Brandon Burpee | Jan 9, 2010 | Columns

This isn’t our typical type of showdown, as we aren’t actually debating anything. This week in Saturday Showdown we’re taking a look at what each of our writers most anticipated title, arc, or basically anything comic related of 2010 is. We really think 2010 is going to be a great year for comics, and each […]

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Saturday Showdown: Will Kick-Ass Kick Ass?

By David Harper and Matthew Meylikhov | Jan 2, 2010 | Columns

For this week’s Saturday Showdown, we have the hottest topic of debate around the Multiversity offices: will Matthew Vaughn’s adaptation of Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.’s Kick-Ass be good or a new level of terrible for comic book movies? While some would say there is middle ground available here, as comic book fans we […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Saturday Showdown: Blackest Night at the Half

By David Harper and Matthew Meylikhov | Nov 8, 2009 | Columns

For this edition of Saturday Showdown, we have Matt and I discussing Blackest Night at the half way point. We’re now four issues in to Blackest Night proper and a lot has happened. The question is simple: has it lived up to the hype. Is it everything we thought it could be and more…or does […]

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Saturday Showdown: Steve vs. Bucky

By David Harper and Matthew Meylikhov | Oct 31, 2009 | Columns

For the second edition of our Saturday Showdown series, Matt and I discuss one of the hottest topics in comics today: should Steve Rogers or Bucky Barnes be Captain America after Captain America: Reborn. Matt felt very passionately that Steve is the one and only Captain America, while I took a slightly different approach. Which […]

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Saturday Showdown: Matt Fraction’s Uncanny X-Men

By David Harper and Matthew Meylikhov | Oct 24, 2009 | Columns

Look at Wolverine’s bicep! We have a new weekly feature for you starting today, it’s called Saturday Showdown, in which two of our writers will take a current event, title, concept, or whatever as long as it involves comics and provide two opinions that live in direct opposition of each other. Recently while doing reviews […]

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