(The) Multiversity - FINALLY!
CageNarleigh
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So it's FINALLY here folks. As in SOLICITED and COVER ART and SYNOPSIS! Huzzah!
THE MULTIVERSITY #1
Written by GRANT MORRISON
Art and cover by IVAN REIS and JOE PRADO
1:10 B&W Variant cover by IVAN REIS
1:25 Variant cover by CHRIS BURNHAM
1:50 Variant cover by BRYAN HITCH
1:100 Variant cover by GRANT MORRISON
Blank variant cover available
On sale AUGUST 20 • 48 pg, FC, $4.99 US • RATED T
Retailers: This issue will ship with six covers. Please see the order form for more information.
The biggest adventure in DC’s history is here!
Join visionary writer Grant Morrison, today’s most talented artists, and a cast of unforgettable characters from 52 alternative Earths of the known DC Multiverse! Prepare to meet the Vampire League of Earth-43, the Justice Riders of Earth-18, Superdemon, Doc Fate, the super-sons of Superman and Batman, the rampaging Retaliators of Earth-8, the Atomic Knights of Justice, Dino-Cop, Sister Miracle, Lady Quark, the legion of Sivanas, the Nazi New Reichsmen of Earth-10 and the latest, greatest Super Hero of Earth-Prime: YOU!
Comprising six complete adventures – each set in a different parallel universe – plus a two-part framing story and a comprehensive guidebook to the many worlds of the Multiverse, THE MULTIVERSITY is more than just a multipart comic-book series. It’s a cosmos spanning, soul-shaking experience that puts YOU on the frontline in the Battle for All Creation against the demonic destroyers known as the Gentry!
In issue #1, pencilled by superstar artist Ivan Reis (AQUAMAN, JUSTICE LEAGUE), President Superman of Earth-23 uncovers a threat to all Reality so apocalyptic it will take a team of incredible heroes from across the Multiverse to face it – including Captain Carrot, like you’ve never seen him before!
But even with a multitude of alternate worlds to choose from, where every variation is possible, can anyone hope to prevail against the onslaught of ultimate evil and undying hatred – in the unstoppable form of a one-time cosmic defender with unimaginable powers?! Join us, if you dare, for the beginning of THE MULTIVERSITY!
THE MULTIVERSITY #1
Written by GRANT MORRISON
Art and cover by IVAN REIS and JOE PRADO
1:10 B&W Variant cover by IVAN REIS
1:25 Variant cover by CHRIS BURNHAM
1:50 Variant cover by BRYAN HITCH
1:100 Variant cover by GRANT MORRISON
Blank variant cover available
On sale AUGUST 20 • 48 pg, FC, $4.99 US • RATED T
Retailers: This issue will ship with six covers. Please see the order form for more information.
The biggest adventure in DC’s history is here!
Join visionary writer Grant Morrison, today’s most talented artists, and a cast of unforgettable characters from 52 alternative Earths of the known DC Multiverse! Prepare to meet the Vampire League of Earth-43, the Justice Riders of Earth-18, Superdemon, Doc Fate, the super-sons of Superman and Batman, the rampaging Retaliators of Earth-8, the Atomic Knights of Justice, Dino-Cop, Sister Miracle, Lady Quark, the legion of Sivanas, the Nazi New Reichsmen of Earth-10 and the latest, greatest Super Hero of Earth-Prime: YOU!
Comprising six complete adventures – each set in a different parallel universe – plus a two-part framing story and a comprehensive guidebook to the many worlds of the Multiverse, THE MULTIVERSITY is more than just a multipart comic-book series. It’s a cosmos spanning, soul-shaking experience that puts YOU on the frontline in the Battle for All Creation against the demonic destroyers known as the Gentry!
In issue #1, pencilled by superstar artist Ivan Reis (AQUAMAN, JUSTICE LEAGUE), President Superman of Earth-23 uncovers a threat to all Reality so apocalyptic it will take a team of incredible heroes from across the Multiverse to face it – including Captain Carrot, like you’ve never seen him before!
But even with a multitude of alternate worlds to choose from, where every variation is possible, can anyone hope to prevail against the onslaught of ultimate evil and undying hatred – in the unstoppable form of a one-time cosmic defender with unimaginable powers?! Join us, if you dare, for the beginning of THE MULTIVERSITY!
Comments
I mean, they say "...and the latest, greatest Super Hero of Earth-Prime: YOU!" & "It’s a cosmos spanning, soul-shaking experience that puts YOU on the frontline in the Battle for All Creation" & "...with a multitude of alternate worlds to choose from".
What if you have to CHOOSE the alternate earth/universe team and pick up the corresponding issue where the adventure continues with the team you chose? It sounds simultaneously dumb AND awesome...
*OK. Actually frustrating and incoherent, but I like the parallel phrasing of "awesome/awful" and "Insane/incoherent" too much to not use it.
Still, I'm excited about this.
Morrison is either my first or second favorite comic writer ever.
But I'm like... so over this kind of stuff from him. Another goofy alt-reality story from him, with undoubtedly all sorts of weird 'insights' about politics and the myths of superheroes. And I am so freaking tired of his 'superheroes are our gods!' routine; he's overreached with it; it's silly and boring and not even all that true. I don't care to see him use 'subversive' Nazi supermen anymore, or weird anamorphic characters, or Obama supermen, or Watchmen stand-ins. I don't care for any more metacommentary on why he doesn't like grim-n-gritty/Alan Moore comics. I've heard it all before, and he said it better the first ten times he tried to drive these points home.
He's been doing this for 25 years now. If I want a bunch of weirdo Grant Morrison characters, I'd just reread the later issues of Animal Man.
I feel like everything he's done for the last 15 years has just been a more elaborate reshuffling of Flex Mentallo.
And I've REALLY LIKED most everything he's done since, but lately it's been a case of diminishing returns. Case in point: With all of the Superman stand-ins here I'm reminded of his Action Comics run. Which was basically a mess. I enjoyed it overall, barely, but it was indeed a mess, a very sloppy comic story, and for all the heavyhanded and 'daring' multiverse/timeline interplay... he didn't really have anything to say.
So I look at this Multiversity stuff and just think "Yeah, he doesn't have anything new to say. It's the same stuff."
I feel like people are looking at this and getting hyped for it the same way they got hyped for Final Crisis. Along with the 'carrot' (pun intended) that Captain Carrot is going to be involved. I actually liked Final Crisis for the most part, but I just don't have it in me to get excited for more of the same.
I'd rather reread Seven Soldiers or something, back when GMo was breaking some genuinely new ground within a DCU context.
But I honestly can't think of anything more redundant or unnecessary right now than another Grant Morrison story involving different versions of the same damn DC characters. At what point does that routine stop being interesting and start being... predictably random? I don't need to see any more wacky versions of these characters. I've already seen more alternate reality stories than I ever needed to see. It feels like the Big Two have produced more of them in the last five years than they did in the previous 70.
Sorry, I just can't get excited for it. I hope it's great and everyone loves it. I might pick it up eventually when it's collected. I'd rather he was finishing SeaGuy or doing something new.
And I don't mean amount to something in the continuity, "Does this MATTER/ Does this COUNT/ Is this IMPORTANT" sense, because I don't care about any of that, especially for the current DCU. Rather, I hope that there is some inventiveness to the form. Some fun meta trick that makes the reading experience of it something other than just a catalog of the IPs of the alternate Earths.
I will say, and here I should probably remind/disclose that I enjoyed Final Crisis more than many, that I have actually pretty rarely been let down by Morrison. Certainly there is some work of his I like better than others. But there has been little of it that I have not at least enjoyed. It doesn't always work, but is rarely forgettable (with his recent run on Action Comics being an unfortunately recent exception).
So, we'll see. I am game. And, given how long he has beaten the drum on this one, hopefully he is ready to really bring his A game to this one. But I do get the concern that some of the description in the solicitation makes it sound like an easy gig. Which is to say, introduce a bunch of versions in a bunch of settings, and let the stellar art team go to town. I do hope it is more than that. I hope that real time has been put into the structure, and that there is an idea at play worth chasing, so it amounts to something more than a guided tour and a Who's Who. We'll see.
I liked Final Crisis.
I've talked about it before (in discussions about Bendis and Johns), but it's a lot harder to be interesting/fresh/new when you've been consistently very good-to-great for so many years. Morrison is no different.
I'm expecting Multiversity to be good. GMo is a good writer and this is something he has been hammering out for years. I'm going in believing it won't be Chinese Democracy.
I think it has to with hearing ideas in the same voice for such a long period of time. At on point we all championed for a creator to be at the top of the comics mountain, and he/she got there. After a while we just get tired of looking up the same skirt so to speak.
If GMo and Gaiman had traded seats.
Let Morrison write Sandman Overture and give the Endless a strange new twist.
Let Gaiman go nuts with alternate histories, his amazing job on "Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?" was a tease of what he could have done.
Those would be fresh and exciting.
As it is, both projects seem like going to a McDonald's in a new town: we know exactly what we're gonna get.
I'm glad it's finally (almost) here.
Now we just need his Wonder Woman Earth One project to surface too.
Major buy for me..I've read it twice now and it probably wont be the last.
i never read crisis on infinite earths...
will this stick since DC is going to reboot the new 52 eventually...
I'm in on this one...sounds like DC just gave him a blank check and said "Go nuts." :)
It reminded me of:
Yes, I loved the way it involved the reader.
I liked how the heroes were pulled from their worlds to an old Monitor satellite..reminiscent of CoIE.
Lots of Marvel Comics(Major Comics) references.
The Monitor from the beginning of the story. turns into one of the monsters...makes me wonder if they are all deformed Monitors. Bah! Forget about continuity and worrying about this sticking or not. I suggest you just read it and experience it. If you don't like issue one then just move on but at least try it. I don't think you need to have read CoIE or even Final Crisis..though there are references to both.