![]() ![]() (No, it shouldn't have that's a stupid name.) ![]() Sometimes The Multiversity is so meta one wonders if it shouldn't have been called The Meta-versity. They are the story, fuel for the plot of the issue and the overarching narrative. And that's in addition to being an extremely timely reminder of how to "read" DC's continuity-realigning storyines and just what, exactly, it is that makes DC Comics and the DC Universe so special in the first place.Īnd, this being part of The Multiversity, a storyline in which comic books themselves play such a pivotal role within the story – serving as gateways for various forms of information from different realities, with Morrison and company riffing on the idea that the fiction of one reality is the reality of its own setting - that map and those profiles of the 52 Earths are central. On flip-through, you'll note that about half of its 70 pages are devoted to illustrated prose in an airy, space-filling format, defining each of the 52 Earths and identifying a few of the key players.īut once you start reading the thing? Well, on a purely conceptual level, as a piece of comics writing and a piece of comics writing about comics, it's probably the most ambitious, important and fascinating chapter of The Multiversity to date. Second and third glances confirm that initial assessment of this book's importance. ![]()
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