Previous thread here. >>87489815 Starting with the guidebook

>>87493695
This is actually my favorite issue of Multiversity. I'm a sucker for reference material shit like this.

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>>87493848
No shame. I don't remember offhand, if the DCAU represented in some way here or an I SOL

>>87493913
DCAU is present, its just the timeline there has reached Batman Beyond, so the JL Beyond are the ones respresenting it.

>>87493913
Earth-12 is DCAU.

>>87493940
Enter Fallout Batman.

>>87493882
Wait is that Batman from the Little League webcomic? Why? how?

>>87494054
Snake Sivana eat him? He FUCKIN EAT LIL SIVANA?

>>87493913
Sort of. One of the worlds is the Batman Beyond world. So I guess you could assume that its history is the DCAU stuff.

>>87494013
Redhead Sivana?
Porno 'stach Sivana?

>>87494101
Multiverse dude

>>87494032
All that effort, just so Sivana could eat himself.

>>87494191
so they ruined the innocence of these children heroes? I'm sad, and yet I want more little League Batman in this.

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>>87494101

You mean Yale's? Nope. They have had the Lil' Leaguers since the early 2000s, they first appeared in a Superman/Batman team up book and have appeared a few times since.

The Superman was killed in that story line, which is also referenced here by Morrison, so it's presumably the same Earth. He just added the Empty Hand reference on top.

>>87494169
People often travel through time when traveling through the multiverse and vice versa. It happened to the Legion of Superheroes a few times.

Time is the fourth dimension and the multiverse is the fifth dimension.

>>87494104

I've never read Kamandi but who is the guy and why is kinda sorta dressed like Orion?

And if he is Orion, why wouldn't he be with the New Gods in this section?

>>87494330
Ben Boxer. It's just a Kirby-esque design.

>>87494177
I fucking love this design.
Also, do you think the Kamandi Challenge will have anything to do with this?

>>87494330
That's Ben Boxer. He's a member of the last surviving group of Humans on Kamandi's Earth, the Nuclear People. They helped rescue Kamandi after he was enslaved by the Tiger Empire.

He dresses like Orion because Jack Kirby draws everybody in the same clothes.

>>87494598
So, Earth-14 is splitting in two, and it's apparently been described as "a new way for worlds to enter the Orrery"... but I can't find anything about that other than mentions on /co/. Anyone know where that was said?

>>87494614
It was some old Newsarama interview with the artist who put the map together.

I like to imagine that Earth-14 is the world of Superman-Red and Superman-Blue. Fits with the whole "splitting in two" theme.

>>87494481
Great thanks. I've read the Wednesday Comics Kamandi but I've been waiting for DC to release the original run as digitals. I've got the scans somewhere on a drive so I should just fucking force myself to read them or buy a trade if one exists.

The Multiversity - Guidebook (2015) (webrip) (The Last Kryptonian-DCP)
http://www94.zippyshare.com/v/G7dXO6RR/file.html

>>87494733
Best Earth.

>>87494598
>>87494718
>>87494733
Can I just say that I kind of hate that they didn't allow Morrison to define all 52 Earths, instead forcing him to keep some in reserve?

It's not like anyone else is ever going to define what those Earths are.

>>87494662
That'd be cool.
I imagine that it's got two Earths unaware of each other - think Mondas from Doctor Who, I guess. Counter-planets.
You could probably combine that with the "one hero split into several" thing.

>>87494800
Is it true they didn't let him or did he just not want to fill all of them in case he got an idea for a new Earth layer down the road?

>>87494800
IIRC It was Morrison who held back on revealing everything.

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>>87494015
Noice

>>87494843
He had ideas for all 52 Earth, but editorial asked him to keep seven undefined in case they wanted to come up with some Earths of their own.

>>87494843
I think it was less in case he got an idea, and more that he didn't want to be a dick and block off all possibilities for other authors.

>>87494895
I'd eat at Superdoomday Burger.

>>87494889
That sounds like DC and it does make sense, even with him defining some of these Earths, I doubt they will necessarily use them.

I can see them at some point down the line doing a tribute to Darwyn and putting out a New Frontier follow-up of some kind. But other than that possibility, it's highly unlikely that anyone will ever do anything with that Earth and that DC, at some point - I'm looking at you Cereal King - won't take some of those designations for some other idea they have.

>>87494796
>>87494907
Republican Earth and Democrat Earth.

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I guess now's as good a time as any to repost this.

>>87494945
>Supreme
>Republican

>>87494159
>the relief when you first realized Farmerseid wasn't the True Face

>>87494699
The first 27 issues are available in Comixology

Wanna know something neat?
Look at Superman's chest. Then think Final Crisis.
>>87494880

>>87495122
the antimatter Ultraman went to that Earth? Nah.

>>87495122
Yeah, Earth-43 Ultraman is the pre-Flashpoint Earth-3 Ultraman.

>>87494733
Ahahahah, this is really fun NOTEarth

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Altogether, there are much worse ways to start a comic

>>87495573
I wonder if Overman ever misses his dad.

>>87495645
Flash Fact: The dead bodies surrounding Overman in his nightmare are the pre-Final Crisis designs for the Earth-10 Mastermen (who where called the Gerechtigkeitsliga at that time).

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>>87495768
>Earth-10 Mastermen

>>87495877
Flash Fact: Morrison said that Leatherwing is the Great Grandson of the old WW1 character Enemy Ace.

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Anyone have any requests for what I should do next? I feel like keeping this momentum

>>87496037
Earth-10 Sivana looks like he walked right out of an Indiana Jones movie.

Don't stop now, bro.

>>87496009
How about the two issues of Morrison's Action Comics run about Earth-23 and Earth-45.

>>87496009

Superman Beyond?

Batman #700?

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>>87496389
Final Crisis?

The Multiversity 001 - Cosmic Neighborhood (2014) (webrip) (The Last Kryptonian-DCP)
http://www94.zippyshare.com/v/hwnQqP1a/file.html

The Multiversity 002 - Justice Incarnate (2015) (5 covers) (digital) (Minutemen-Mollylvr)
http://www51.zippyshare.com/v/4EDJTEY4/file.html

The Multiversity - Society of Super-Heroes (2014) (webrip) (The Last Kryptonian-DCP)
http://www44.zippyshare.com/v/H6uBLRBv/file.html

The Multiversity - The Just (2014) (webrip) (The Last Kryptonian-DCP)
http://www94.zippyshare.com/v/PyRSHYjm/file.html

The Multiversity - Pax Americana (2015) (webrip) (The Last Kryptonian-DCP)
http://www94.zippyshare.com/v/s9AUnrbp/file.html

The Multiversity - Thunderworld Adventures (2015) (webrip) (The Last Kryptonian-DCP)
http://www94.zippyshare.com/v/0h2C3m95/file.html

The Multiversity - Mastermen (2015) (webrip) (The Last Kryptonian-DCP)
http://www94.zippyshare.com/v/dcGaeAAy/file.html

The Multiversity - Ultra Comics (2015) (webrip) (The Last Kryptonian-DCP)
http://www94.zippyshare.com/v/Fgp4rJnv/file.html

>>87494983
meh

>>87496919
>My voice sounds a little more natural now
GET OUT OF MY HEAD.

>>87494661
;_;7

>>87497051
This "they're all Ultra" stuff is pretty weird.

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>>87497229
I feel like it goes just weird enough without hitting the tipping point of self masturbation

>>87494470
Press "F" to pay your respects.

>>87497243
>Earth-Prime is evil darkness hiding in a suit

>>87497051
So all of these are different DC characters named Ultra, except for the black guy in the overalls who I've never been able to identify.

>>87496566
So who was the traitor?

>>87497313
To Earth-3 or the death of good writing for Earth-2?

>>87497229
It sort of makes sense.

When you have a dream, every person in the dream is you. Your mind created them, so they all represent some part of yourself.

Remember, Ultra is not the guy in this comic book, Ultra IS the comic book. When we read the comic book, we are looking into the mind of a living being. Every character in the story is a different manifestation of that being's conscious self-awareness.

>>87497456
Open to interpretation, but I believe it was Overman himself.

He just didn't realize how far the Freedom Fighters were going to go.

>>87497529
I love that Earth-43 Sivana wears a lab cape instead of a lab coat.

>>87496524
>Heads up Ratzis!
On the one hand I do love the ridiculous term Ratzis but it seems superfluous seeing as Nazi was already a derogatory term for the National Socialist Party which Hitler and his ilk didn't take kindly to.
Still a nice touch though.

>>87497688
>dat panel progression.

that certainly gives quite the sense of scale of that thing and its legions. from specks, to mosquitos, to mosquito looking ships, to mosquito looking ships piloted by demonic goblins.

I would definetly read anything set in Earth-48, there's just something about an all-super all-costume all-the-time earth that appeals to me for some reason.

>>87494582
I can't believe anybody remembered this one. It was basically a one-off joke universe from Books of Magic that only happened in a dream.

>>87497882
I like to imagine that the Justice League is pretty much the same on that Earth, expect they all do their day jobs fully in-costume, and no one cares about them because they're just more superheroes on a world already full of them.

>>87493695

Oh shit OP. Thanks. I torrented this and I got like 1/3 of it. I'm missing Pax Americana and some of the other stuff! I've been meaning to ask someone on here for it and story time what I had in exchange. But if you storytime all of it, that'd be fucking awesome and greatly appreciated.

>>87497988
Bug wants to make The Living great again.

>>87498033
I like the small implication here that American Crusader is an alternate version of Uncle Sam.

>>87498085
What is Bizarro Flash even going to do? Slow them to death?

>>87498361
I love it too.

Also I'll keep posting Morrison comics in this thread till I hit the bump limit while I continue Final Crisis in another.

>>87498001

Grant loves the very esoteric edges of the DC omniverse; I think it helps, with his thinking, for him to make all the connections that he does and how he ties in the past with whatever he is writing in the present. Unfortunately, most other writers don't really take it past where Grant leaves it, as the New 52 Action run post issue #19 proves.

>>87498131

See >>87496609

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New thread I'm starting.
>>87498488

Also Action Comics #09, ripped by Zone-Empire

>>87497882
I'm not sure what they used to be called, but you could go back and read the stuff with Lord and Lady Quark.
At least, I'm pretty sure they weren't made for COIE.

Even two years later, I still love this story.

>>87497597

Poor 'lil Batguy. ;_;7

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>>87499009
This costume is fucking legit. It just gets better and better in my eyes.

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And thus concludes this issue. If I can find something small I will.

>>87499685
Thank you

>>87498677
>>87498696
>>87498973
>>87498639

Action Comics 009 (2012) (4 covers) (digital) (Minutemen-PhD)
http://www22.zippyshare.com/v/gOVaNPfM/file.html

>>87494342
That second and third panel? Did Morrison already know about their plans for Rebirth? That fits surprisingly well with the Dr. Manhattan narrative.

>>87494367
You know, I never noticed Destiny just chilling up there.

>>87494598
Think they'll ever touch on that cosmic grail? Sounds cool.

>>87503813
Nope. On rare occasions, Johns will actually steal from other people and build on them, instead of building on his own ideas (e.g. Darkseid War is partially a fall out of Trinity War/Forever Evil, which is partially blah blah).

Also, this (not specifically those panels but Mutliversity) picks up from other things Morrison did in Final Crisis and in Countdown.

>>87498260
Boy, I would hate to be those guys.

>>87504674

And the Hand is old school DC mythology

>>87494598

so was Earth 15 destroyed in like infinite crisis or something

>>87493695
Why do the numbers on the side only go to 51?

>>87507197
Planet 52 (e.g. Earth 2) has been trashed at that point in time?

>>87507197
Starts at 0.

>>87506556
Countdown, actually.

>>87494582
ongoing when

>>87494800

It's smart to leave some creative to flex his mind muscles or someone else's at DC.

>>87494907

>Prez Rickard

That reminds me. I just read Sandman AFTER I read this part of Multiveristy a few weeks before so I didn't recognize this. I thought Prez seemed familiar!

But yeah, Prez is from Sandman!

>>87498188
>>87498208

Somebody redpill me on everything about Empty Hand. It's Ultra Comics and us and the writer and God or something?

>>87511685
As soon as DC finds some writers with nuts.

>>87511870
Well, Prez is originally from his own self-titled series in the 70's by Captain America co-creator Joe Simon. But yes, he was also in Sandman.

>>87512407
Throughout Multiversity, there's this nihilistic anti-fiction undercurrent, epitomized by the series' villains. Not just the Empty Hand and his Gentry, but also Nightshade's father and the Earth-5 Doctor Sivana and even Overman's wife. The idea being suggested is that fiction is somehow bad for you, because it ages you. You waste your precious hours on this Earth reading about imaginary people who will stay young and vibrant forever, while you keep growing older. In that sense, it's almost like fictional characters are some kind of youth-vampire, draining your life away every time you indulge yourself in their stories.

Even Mister Stubbs, one of the good guys, allows himself to fall into this faulty way of thinking. "Aren't we getting too old for comic books," he asks, foreshadowing the message of the Gentry.

The heroes of the story, the OJI, represent the opposite view of fiction. The idea that reading about fictional characters makes us better people, because heroes can inspire us to emulate them, and villains can serve as cautionary examples that teach us how to avoid becoming like them. Every hero is fictional on every world except his own, but by reading about each other's adventures, they make each other better and also make us better. And we make all of them better by creating new stories about them and supporting them with our comic-buyng dollars (unless you're one of those filthy pirates, from a pirate universe).

>>87496566
I hope Overman appears in Tomasi's Multiverse Superman arc.