DACK FAYDEN posted:

Was skeptical Multiversity would ever exist. Let's see if I'm proven right in two days when completely blank books with gorgeous covers are shipped nationwide.

Flameingblack posted:

Yeah, it's certainly a Morrison comic alright.

drrockso20 posted:

ah Zalgo, probably one of the better early Creepypasta sort of things, also have some content people;

d00gZ posted:

rrf http://comicsalliance.com/multiversity-annotations-part-3-morrison-ben-oliver-just-dc-comics/

Space Fish posted:

Latest issue got my hopes up that Multiversity and Convergence will somehow make good on the whole "every comic happened" premise and integrate other DC continuities, if not into the main post-Convergence series, then into continuing Elseworlds books.

Neurosis posted:

I only drift in and out of reading the main DC/Marvel continuities (Hickman is a huge draw), but how many of the 52 universes shown (sans the 7) were pre-existent? Because I feel like very many of them were just boring heroic iterations. I know Morrison likes optimistic superheroes, so he doesn't have a reason to imagine 'gritty' universes, but I like those settings and it forecloses any kind of Wildstorm type spinoffs.

Teenage Fansub posted:

Ultra Comics preview and Gmo interview
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/03/exclusive-preview-interview-grant-morrison-unleash.html

redbackground posted:

Toph Bei Fong posted:

The issue with the deconstruction that Morrison does is that he's already done it, multiple times, and, well, what's he trying to say exactly?

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Paste: Multiversity is just so big and massive in scope, panning out to dissect how the realities between comic fiction and the world intersect. It’s also a theme playing out in Annihilator, albeit as a reflection on the film industry. This project feels so definitive and absolute; are there more meta comic events that you could write past this? Am I being unimaginative by asking where do you go from here?

Morrison: I realize it’s my master theme. A lot of times I’ll be working on a thing, and I’ll be thinking here’s another story where a person wakes up to the true nature of reality and I’ll think, ‘Grant, come on—why do you keep doing this?’

Lord Krangdar posted:

This Ultra story was like a much less scatalogical and random Filler Bunny issue, complete with the dreaming-tank.

People here seem convinced that the members of the Gentry represent various aspects of comics that Morrison wants the medium to finally move beyond, but I don't think that's quite it. They're cast as comic book villains, and the defining feature of comic book villains is that they're fought off over and over but never fully defeated. Just like Batman will always fight the Joker but never finally defeat him, superhero comics will always struggle with these issues (extreme darkness vs. naive innocence, intellectualization vs. visceral enjoyment, nostalgic stagnation vs. alienating experimentation) without fully resolving them. That's why you get to the end of the reversed Watchmen-analogue and arrive right back at the same moment that set all of it in motion in the first place. The only way out of that is to stop reading.

But that's okay, because struggle is necessary for life- see the very first page of the first issue. It ties back to Seaguy, where he can never be happy in a world without conflict. The Just kinda tackled the same idea, but IMO less effectively.