Multiversity #1

[superfangirl1]

Earth 8

Comments

[starwolf_oakley]

Grant Morrison never quite gets the difference between "trippy" and "this will make sense if you read it while high."

[crimsonmoonmist]

Blue Baby Hulk is certainly the latter.
I still won't deny I'm all for getting on this ride.
I always enjoyed the Silver Age's silly atmosphere
and, while Morrison has certainly taken that nature to its logical extremes and then some, there is still something nostalgic about reading his more eccentric stuff that only he can pull off without completely devolving into the raving insanity that would have taken a lesser writer.

[drtechnobabel]

Wait, I just got it. Hulk's entire shtick is that he gains power by throwing temper tantrums. LIKE A BABY!

...Oh God, what was in that cookie I just ate?

...Genius powder. It was genius powder wasn't it? Maybe I should have a few more...

[shadowpsykie]

i love grant, it's a given that his shit is some special kind of shit... just go along for the ride

[shadowpsykie]

oooh let me guess... the lady in brown... Brown Recluse?

[kd_the_movie]

I love this Superman's costume. It has the collar and some of the "segments" of Kal's costume but it actually *looks* like clothing and comes across less aggressive than Kal's.

Aquawoman is pretty hot also.

[drtechnobabel]

Well if I remember correctly, this Superman IS the President. It would make sense for him to want to look more diplomatic than his 'reporter/blogger' counterpart.

[junipepper]

Mostly like it, but the cape is kind of pointlessly weird.

[falkner]

I felt like most of it flew right over my head while reading it.

Not-Hal and not-Barry, though, that made me laugh.

[halloweenjack]

Much of this is just... OK. Black Human Torch expy, well done Grant, you've been keeping up with Bleeding Cool.

[big_daddy_d]

Ok...I love this. If this is any indication, this will be a fun series. I expected grimdark crisis shit but instead finding something more lighthearted than I expected that also seems to speak to fans. I look forward to more of this.

[violetclm.livejournal.com]

Interesting to see who's supposed to be big name Avengers characters right now. Black Widow and Captain Marvel have found their way in, I see, plus... Phoenix? Hmm. Or maybe Wasp. So who's the woman in red at bottom right?

Nerdy Red Racer is making me miss the Flash from Stan Lee's Just Imagine.

Oh and something something incursions

[silverhammerman]

The Bug is a gender swapped Spider-Man.

[big_daddy_d]

The woman with the wings is supposed to be a version of Falcon I suspect.

[thezmage]

In the third panel posted, is that the young Wonder Woman from the world where nothing bad ever happens from the two issue Superman/Batman arc? 'Cause that's one of my favorite alternate worlds.

[superfangirl1]

Yes, she the same loveable character from the Li'l Leaguers alternate earth.

[bizarrohulk]

So, given the entire DC multiverse to play with, literally the first thing Morrison does is have his characters meet a bunch of Marvel expies?

*sigh*

[icon_uk]

The world with the Retaliators/Champions of Angor/Generic Marvel expy's, has been around since 1971, and revisited a time or two since, so it's an established Mulitversal Earth. At least this gets it out of the way I suppose.

[citygod]

srsly? This is 70's canon? Awesome...

[beyondthefringe]

Yup. DC had the heroes of Angor, who have been through a few revisions along the way--they showed up a few times during the '90s JLA/JLE/JLI era, with several (Blue Jay, Silver Sorceress) hanging around for quite a while as members of the League. They again saw revisions during the Countdown era, and here we are again, with DC's take on Marvel heroes. They've been aliens from an Earthlike planet, residents of a parallel Earth, and who knows what else.

At the same time, Marvel introduced the Squadron Supreme, which have never been better than when Mark Gruenwald wrote them, and worse than when JMS took a turn. :)

[icon_uk]

Well, a variation thereof. The original heroes were known variously over the years as the Justifiers, the Assemblers and eventually the Meta Milita in 2007.

It was part of one of those exchange scheme things, the DCU had the Assemblers, and MU had the Squadron Supreme, each an expy of the other companies team.

(See also the Shi'ar Imperial Guard's remarkable ;) resemblance to the Legion of Superheroes)

The Assemblers had Wandjina, Silver Sorceress, Bluejay and Jack B Quick (Thor, Scarlet Witch, Yellowjacket/Wasp, and Quicksilver)

A group of equally expy villains called the Extremists (Lord Havok, Dreamslayer, Gorgon, Dr Diehard and Tracer (Dr Doom, Dormammu, Dr Octopus, Magneto and Sabretooth)) eventually laid waste to their world, and Silver Sorceress, Bluejay and Wandjina came through to the DCU, Wandjina quickly died and the others joined the JLE, and the Extremists appeared a time or two as villains. IIRC Both Bluejay and Sorceress eventually died in action.

[silverzeo]

.... I can't help but think how CC would react to see his N52 take of himself... and how odd that this came out almost as soon as that Avengers Decade parody of JLA....

[night4345]

Love adorable kid Wonder Woman, Gender-Bent Aquaman and Lord Havok and the rest of the Not! Marvel universe. I wonder if it's going to be destroyed as payback for the Illuminati destroying the Not! Justice League's earth.

[penguinzero]

You know, the one thing that niggles at me out of all of this is that Captain Carrot ought to be much more definite about the idea that one reality's heroes can be reflected in another reality's comics. I mean, he's actually met Super-Squirrel and the Justa Lotta Animals, heroes that he's actually written the comics for. Saying he 'always suspected' is kind of underplaying things a bit.

Yes, out of all of the weirdness of Multiversity, that's the point that I get stuck on. Nostalgia is a cruel master.

[zapbiffpow]

Oh my God, Aquawoman is wicked hot.

In terms of Morrisonness, though, this is still reasonably manageable.

[obsidianwolf]

So I just read issue one and you know what there are things I like and thinks I dislike in it. It is a bit too self aware and meta for my taste if that keeps going for way to long it will get on my nerves.

But it is the best of the current the Multiverse are in trouble stories going on now. IN fact this one issue blows away Hickman's attempt at telling an epic the multiverse is dying story.

[akodo_rokku]

So based on the comments here, the way to make Aquaman a hit is just a gender swap.

I'm good with that if DC is.