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We are one week away. http://www.wired.com/2014/08/grant-morrison-multiversity-dc/#slide-id-1401271:full We have a preview. DO NOT READ THIS THREAD. I was gonna post this in the New 52 thread, but kind of figured that this might warrant its own thread, since I imagine we'll get a lot of return DC readers for this. THIS THREAD WILL KILL YOU. There's a map of the multiverse here: http://popwatch.ew.com/2014/07/25/multiversity-dc-grant-morrison/ But anyway, the six-page preview in the Wired link is batshit insane in pretty much the best way I could have hoped for.
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This is gonna be the first comic from either of the big two I've read in over a year. So excited!
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Aug 13, 2014 16:53
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It's going to be good.
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Aug 13, 2014 20:51
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More Nix Uotan. Cam Stew Captain Marvel. Quitely Watchmen. I am ready.
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Aug 13, 2014 21:10
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby_Tyler;_or,_Ten_Weeks_with_a_Circus Mr. Stubbs!
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Aug 13, 2014 23:40
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It'll be okay, I guess.
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Aug 13, 2014 23:45
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My shop is giving me the multiverse map poster, which I'm going to use for a DCU Adventures campaign I'm starting with my friends. I'd like to think Morrison would approve. May just have to shut the lights off and go home after Multiversity. This might be the definitive super hero comic.
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Aug 14, 2014 01:57
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Since reading William S. Burroughs Nova Trilogy I've noticed Morrison has borrowed or built on a lot of the ideas from it over his career (in a good way). "Whose voice is this speaking in your head anyway? Yours?" is probably the most direct connection yet. I don't really get the inclusion of the chimp yet, even with that link d00gZ posted. Art looks surprisingly good; I think I had Ivan Reis confused with someone else.
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Aug 14, 2014 04:25
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The chimp is clearly Dmitri-9.
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Aug 14, 2014 05:01
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:The chimp is clearly Dmitri-9. Ha, I wish! Apparently the chimp showed up in Final Crisis, but I don't remember that at all.
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Aug 14, 2014 05:08
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Lord Krangdar posted:Since reading William S. Burroughs Nova Trilogy I've noticed Morrison has borrowed or built on a lot of the ideas from it over his career (in a good way). "Whose voice is this speaking in your head anyway? Yours?" is probably the most direct connection yet. The chimp was (also for no obvious reason) the one talking in the cell that Nix was thrown into in FC, right before be became the Monitor / Judge of all Evil.
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Aug 14, 2014 05:12
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Normally not a big fan of Morrison but this looks really fun so I'll definitely check it out (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR READING THIS THREAD)
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Aug 14, 2014 05:28
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Starting the series with Ivan Reis  Quitely and Stewart issues will be amazing, but this guy and Ben Oliver are making GBS threads up the joint fierce.
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Aug 14, 2014 09:32
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Good spot! The summary on that page does seem very much like it would fit in with Morrison's ongoing meta-commentary abut the comics industry. quote:Toby Tyler tells the story of a ten year-old orphan who runs away from a foster home to join the traveling circus only to discover his new employer is a cruel taskmaster. The difference between the romance of the circus from the outside and the reality as seen from the inside is graphically depicted. Toby's friend, Mr. Stubbs the chimpanzee, reinforces the consequences of what happens when one follows one's natural instincts rather than one's intellect and conscience, a central theme of the novel. The "aren't we too old to read comics" line from Stubbs in the preview could back this up. Maybe Morrison is using both Nix Uotan and Mr Stubbs as fiction suits in this to examine his own relationship with comics. Uotan as the youthful optimist, Mr Stubbs as the "grown-up" voice. Or maybe I'm just getting ahead of myself... Sod it. The "Don't read this comic" sounds very much like an inversion of this Flash cover that Morrison has mentioned a good few times in interviews. It also brings into play the "You" being a hero in Multiversity.  If it's not obvious, I'm really quite excited for this. I've been less than impressed with Morrison's recent output: Batman Inc vol 2 just faltered for me and it seemed like Morrison himself had lost interest by the end; Action again, just felt a bit half-hearted, like it went on for longer than he had planned. And Happy was just shite. But this... this looks like a proper return to form.
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Aug 14, 2014 09:34
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Is there a connecting thread to this or is it all one shots in different universes?
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Aug 14, 2014 14:01
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Aphrodite posted:Is there a connecting thread to this or is it all one shots in different universes? There're connecting threads, but we don't know the whole picture just yet. We get The Multiversity #1 setting things up, then the one-shots in different universes and the multiverse guidebook, and then The Multiversity #2 wrapping things up. Morrison's said the heroes of the one-shots are going to be reading each others' comics to keep track of what's going on. The solicits suggest a common villain will be popping up as well.
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Aug 14, 2014 14:18
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Aphrodite posted:Is there a connecting thread to this or is it all one shots in different universes? I assume it will be making GBS threads on DC and mainstream comics in general. I think I already read that they communicate with each other using comics.
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Aug 14, 2014 14:18
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I am so on board for an Eternal Darkness-esque comic book. 
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Aug 14, 2014 14:28
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fatherboxx posted:Starting the series with Ivan Reis
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Aug 14, 2014 14:29
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redbackground posted:He's okay, but not who I want to see on a project like this. The ugly, gradient-happy DC house coloring isn't helping set it apart, either. At least I know it'll get a whole lot better. It may be entirely coincidental that some kind of multiversal apocalypse is being set up in DC's house style.
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Aug 14, 2014 14:44
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fatherboxx posted:Starting the series with Ivan Reis What's wrong with Ben Oliver? He saved Action Comics from ol' Lazy Eye Morales.
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Aug 14, 2014 16:36
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It's going to end with all the characters from every DC comic, movie and animated show coming into Grant Morrison's house for a HUGE party.
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Aug 14, 2014 16:48
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Its never said explicitly but its strongly implied in Twin Peaks and especially in the film Fire Walk With Me that the main villain and his associates are some sort of parasite species that evolved to live off of human imagination and emotions. I'm thinking that first page there with the "life evolves anywhere" stuff is hinting at the same sort of concept.
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Aug 14, 2014 17:09
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I took that to be a reference to the existence of life in the Multiverse in general. In the Superman Beyond portion of Final Crisis, life was shown to have arisen in a "flaw" in the heart of the original, primordial Monitor/Overvoid -- which is an analogy for our imagination and the creative process. These characters, which began as imaginary constructs, are now "alive":Morrison, from the Wired interview posted:People have this idea of canon, but there is no canon... To me, it’s all real. Every comic you ever read is real. The anthropomorphic Monitors who descended from the Overvoid (Nix Uotan, Weeja Dell, Mandrakk, etc.) explicitly did become parasites who evolved to feed off of imagination and emotion. More accurately, they drank vampire-style the raw story-stuff - the potentiality of the fictional Multiverse - in the form of Bleed.
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Aug 14, 2014 17:44
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zoux posted:It's going to end with all the characters from every DC comic, movie and animated show coming into Grant Morrison's house for a HUGE party. Merryman will be the GamesmasterAnthony of Multiversity.
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Aug 14, 2014 19:53
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Chris Burnham's #1 variant
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Aug 16, 2014 01:27
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Is this going to actually be monthly or can we expect delays?
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Aug 16, 2014 03:39
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Teenage Fansub posted:Chris Burnham's #1 variant Hahaha that loving cat
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Aug 16, 2014 05:28
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^burtle posted:Is this going to actually be monthly or can we expect delays? The whole project has already been delayed for years, so if there's exists a chance for a Morrison series to come out on time this is it.
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Aug 16, 2014 05:29
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Cameron Stewart apparently did the Thunderworld issue over a year ago and I wouldn't be surprised if Reis, Oliver, Prouse and Mahnke have all done their issues on time. If any issue gets delayed I suspect it'd be Quitely's one.
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Aug 16, 2014 06:13
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AFoolAndHisMoney posted:If any issue gets delayed I suspect it'd be Quitely's one. His was the first art shown in 2012. If it isn't ready for November(?), that'd be amazing. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 06:40 on Aug 16, 2014 |
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Aug 16, 2014 06:18
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Teenage Fansub posted:Chris Burnham's #1 variant Oh. My. God. 
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Thanks
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Aug 16, 2014 08:11
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Teenage Fansub posted:Chris Burnham's #1 variant I think this is the first take on the classic Actions Comics cover where it makes sense. It's an evil anthropomorphic car that Captain Carrot is attacking. Multiversity is going to be brilliant, but then again I love everything Morrison.
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Aug 16, 2014 09:27
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Teenage Fansub posted:His was the first art shown in 2012. If it isn't ready for November(?), that'd be amazing. It wouldn't be surprising however. I'm ready for this, I just pray it won't hit any snags.
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Teenage Fansub posted:Chris Burnham's #1 variant 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.
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Aug 18, 2014 15:25
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DACK FAYDEN posted:It's beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. For once, I am going to throw down the cash for a variant. Oh wow. I'm with you on that one. Hype for the event aside, that cover is gorgeous. The color, the composition, everything.
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Aug 18, 2014 15:28
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Teenage Fansub posted:Chris Burnham's #1 variant Holy poo poo, I want one of these for every universe.
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Aug 18, 2014 21:20
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Updating "interactive" map. http://www.dccomics.com/blog/2014/08/18/the-map-of-the-multiverse Really, they just link to a piece of art and bio for each (3 so far) Earth. I assumed Earth 8 had something to do with 70's-90's DC with the bullet logo type stars around the '8', but I guess not. e: Oops. Didn't click the full bio. I guess that's a Cap America type shield around the 8. quote:
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I want JLA/Avengers redone with The Great Society and the Earth-8 heroes.
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