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Posted by Seb Patrick at 11:23 on 23 Oct 2015

Best Comics of 2014: The Multiversity
Posted by Seb Patrick at 23:59 on 30 Dec 2014

But even aside from that, with what seemed to be Morrison's final definitive statement on the superhero comic, in his epoch-defining Batman run, finally at an end, and following the apparent inability of his Action Comics to stake out a claim for greatness in this new era, this supposed final hurrah began to feel like little more than an afterthought. Sure, it would be nice to see a bit of new Frank Quitely art, especially if he was drawing the Blue Beetle. But would The Multiversity really have anything new to say?
It turns out that yes, it did. And what it had to say was The Man Don't Give A Fuck.
Comixology Sale Picks: Batman 750
Posted by Seb Patrick at 11:45 on 23 Jul 2014

Seven hundred and fifty Batman comics? Seven hundred and fifty? No way are we going to be able to give you a yes or no on every single item featured in Comixology's mammoth Batman anniversary sale, but if we go through and pick out a few choice things we think are worth looking at, it might help you actually navigate the sale without it taking the entire week that it lasts for...
Review: The Multiversity: The Just #1
Posted by Seb Patrick at 21:17 on 23 Oct 2014

And it further turns out that The Just, an issue that I have to admit I wasn't necessarily expecting to be much in the way of great shakes based on its cover and its solicit, is Morrison attempting to do something akin to The Kingdom (which is in itself ironic given that The Kingdom brought Morrison's once-abandoned "Hypertime" concept into official continuity for all of five minutes), only actually good. So it's a story of a world in which the Golden and Silver Age DC heroes age in real time, and so by the year 2014 have mostly (but not entirely) been replaced by their offspring and other successive generations. But rather than being made-up possible future heroes, they're all the legacy heroes from the '90s and beyond.
Or, to put it another way: The Multiversity: The Just is a Silver Age-style "imaginary story" featuring 1990s characters, filtered through a distinctly Morrisonian layer of metatextuality. With Damian Wayne in it.
I mean, if there's anything that I could better wave in people's faces and say "this is how I like my comics", I'd like to see it.
5 + 2 reasons to buy 52
Posted by Seb Patrick at 12:20 on 14 May 2014

Interview: Grant Morrison on UK Comics
Posted by Graham Kibble-White at 21:40 on 18 Apr 2014
