REVIEW: The Multiversity #1

I'm not a big Morrison fan, but I will admit that when he is REALLY good, then I can get into it (All Star Superman, 52). All in all I thought Multiversity #1 was pretty solid.

The story is definitely weird and very Morrison-esque, but not bizarre enough that it was as hard to follow as this review seems to be stressing. And those first few really weird pages with Nix pay off nicely on the last page.

The rest of the issue nicely introduces an epic story with a big cast of other-earth characters, what's not to like about that? Again, it's still a bit Morrison weird, like the musical-vibration-travel, but the dialogue is mostly on point, and still not as far-fetched as a lot of his stuff.

Oh, and the art is Reis, it's nothing less than amazing. I'm definitely going to be reading more, a solid 7/10 from me.

@nibs I'm confused, where does this take place within the New 52? Calvin Ellis was seen in Action Comics #10-or-9 I believe yet I've heard many say this isn't technically part of The New 52. Timeline confuses the hell out of me.

@phronesis
It seems canon to me, and nobody has told me otherwise.

It mostly takes place in The Bleed on Harbinger's watchtower, and while we haven't seen anyone from Prime Earth, the story goes to Earth 7, Earth 23 (Calvin Ellis), and then ends on Earth 8 (Marvel Universe spoof). Confusing-timeline free!

@mikecantrell83
Morrison is hit or miss for me too. In fact, he's almost always a miss. His stuff is just too weird, often to the point where it doesn't make sense, or there's too much emphasis on a metaphor as opposed to the actual story and it just comes off as ridiculous.

But I have to disagree about this story being too messy, I really didn't find it required multiple reads and it seemed a little more traditional than a lot of his work. I will say that for the amount of dialogue it doesn't seem like much happens, but as a first issue I don't think it needed to, and what aspects it did set up worked well.

But I do get where you're coming from and based on your review here, you definitely are not the target audience.

And of course, it's only issue 1, Morrison still has lots of time to garbage the story up!

Also, I agree with you. The part about how Carrot iterate's that one's fiction is another's reality, or how comics are a messaged bottle of a neighboring Universe. Awesome stuff right there.

I enjoyed it.
It felt like the start of a new "Crisis".
Definitely interested in seeing where this is going.

I don't care much for "New 52" But I don't know how I would feel if this is the start of a new companywide reboot.