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Butcher’s Block, Slab 9: Carving Through “Hack/Slash”

By Gregory Ellner | Apr 22, 2024 | Annotations

Welcome to Butcher’s Block, our “Hack/Slash” annotation. With the Kickstarter-funded hardcover compilation of most of the crossovers between “Hack/Slash” and other franchises, noted as “Hack/Slash Vol. X: The Crossovers,” in print, alongside another fourth volume of the main deluxe hardcovers, there are two additions to the overarching narrative that deserves some attention, and the various […]

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Mignolaversity: The Hellboy Universe Reading Order ― 2023

By Mark Tweedale | Oct 4, 2023 | Annotations

In 2014, I created a Hellboy Universe reading for Multiversity Comics and every year since, I updated with all the latest books. This is not an official reading order, because there isn’t an official reading order. There is no one way to read the Hellboy Universe. Most of the series in the Hellboy Universe can […]

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Mignolaversity: The Hellboy Universe Reading Order ― 2022

By Mark Tweedale | Aug 29, 2022 | Annotations

This is an older reading order. Please check out the 2023 version. Back in 2014, I created a Hellboy Universe reading for Multiversity Comics. However, with all the new books Dark Horse Comics and Mike Mignola keep putting out, I’ve had to update every year since. So here’s 2022’s reading order, including all the collections […]

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Isu Codices, Volume 22: Catching Up with “Assassin’s Creed”

By Gregory Ellner | Jun 28, 2022 | Annotations

Welcome back to the Isu Codices. This month, we are looking into the English translations of the third volume of the Chinese manhua “Assassin’s Creed Dynasty” and the fourth (and final) volume of the Japanese manga “Assassin’s Creed: Blade of Shao Jun.” Due to the nature of the ‘Forgotten Myths’ comics by Dark Horse making […]

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Isu Codices, Volume 21: Catching Up with “Assassin’s Creed”

By Gregory Ellner | Mar 8, 2022 | Annotations

Welcome back to the Isu Codices. This month, we are looking into the English translation of the second volume of the Chinese manhua “Assassin’s Creed Dynasty.” A note on spelling: due to the different methods of romanization for Arabic names, several different spellings of the same name may be found in history, but we will […]

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Isu Codices, Volume 20: Catching Up with “Assassin’s Creed”

By Gregory Ellner | Feb 8, 2022 | Annotations

Welcome back to the Isu Codices. This month, we are looking into the English translation of the third volume of the Japanese manga “Assassin’s Creed: Blade of Shao Jun.” New Concepts Historical Revisionism Key to the historical fiction take on Assassin’s Creed, and even to how this very column addresses it, is its own approach […]

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Isu Codices, Volume 19: Catching Up with “Assassin’s Creed”

By Gregory Ellner | Dec 7, 2021 | Annotations

Welcome back to the Isu Codices. This month, we are looking into the English translation of the first volume of the Chinese manhua “Assassin’s Creed: Dynasty.” The Tokyopop translation has numerous errors, but will be used for images and as much information as can be effectively gleaned. So far, for a large portion of this […]

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Butcher’s Block, Slab 8: Carving Through “Hack/Slash”

By Gregory Ellner | Nov 8, 2021 | Annotations

Welcome to Butcher’s Block, our “Hack/Slash” annotation. With the Kickstarter-funded hardcover version of the second omnibus now in print, there’s a few new additions that we should dive into. Furthermore, for sake of clarity: “Hack/Slash” is a mature comic book series. As such, many images may not be suitable for younger audiences, and quotations and/or […]

Feature: 25 Years of Hellboy

Mignolaversity: The Hellboy Universe Reading Order ― 2021

By Mark Tweedale | Sep 22, 2021 | Annotations

This is an older reading order. Please check out the 2023 version. Back in 2014, I created a Hellboy Universe reading for Multiversity Comics. The problem is, Dark Horse Comics and Mike Mignola keep on putting out new books, so I’ve been doing an updated version every year since. Here’s 2021’s reading order, covering all […]

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Isu Codices, Volume 18: Catching Up with “Assassin’s Creed”

By Gregory Ellner | Sep 7, 2021 | Annotations

Welcome back to the Isu Codices. This month, we are looking into two different projects that were both released as English translations in August 2021. First, we have “Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Blood Brothers,” a prequel to Assassin’s Creed Valhalla written by Feng Zisu that follows the Sons of Ragnar as they began the Viking expansion […]

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Hell Notes: Who the Hell Is Sarah Jewell?

By Mark Tweedale | May 10, 2021 | Annotations

Welcome to Hell Notes, Multiversity Comics’ annotation column for the Hellboy Universe. This Wednesday a new miniseries launches, “The House of Lost Horizons: A Sarah Jewell Mystery.” Sounds good, but if you haven’t been reading all the numerous titles in the Hellboy Universe, you may be wondering Who the hell is Sarah Jewell? Well, don’t […]

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Butcher’s Block, Slab 7: Carving Through “Hack/Slash”

By Gregory Ellner | May 3, 2021 | Annotations

Welcome to Butcher’s Block, our “Hack/Slash” annotation. With the Kickstarter-funded hardcover version of the first omnibus now in print, there’s a new addition that we should dive into. Yes, there is also the timeline added in (and I am still very proud to have been a part of that, but that has already been discussed […]

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Isu Codices, Volume 17: Catching Up with “Assassin’s Creed”

By Gregory Ellner | Mar 2, 2021 | Annotations

Welcome back to the Isu Codices. This month, we are going to be going into a completely different style of comic: manga, specifically the first volume of “Assassin’s Creed: Blade of Shao Jun” by Minoji Kurata, encompassing the first four issues serialized in Monthly Sunday Gene-X and translated to English by Viz Media. Technically speaking, […]

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Isu Codices, Volume 16: Catching Up with “Assassin’s Creed”

By Gregory Ellner | Feb 2, 2021 | Annotations

Welcome back to the Isu Codices. We have had quite a bit of time away from the French “Assassin’s Creed” comics, but this month, with the release of its English translation, we finally will be going over the events of the latest in the “Cycles” of Les Deux Royaumes, and seemingly the last from Titan […]

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Isu Codices, Volume 15: Catching Up with “Assassin’s Creed”

By Gregory Ellner | Jan 5, 2021 | Annotations

Welcome back to the Isu Codices. Since last time, we delved into the base game of Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla in an in-depth discussion about the lore implications of certain elements of the plot, mostly revolving around the modern day and Isu-based concepts. We can go back into some remaining ideas, but first, let’s wrap up […]

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Worthy: King Thor

By Elias Rosner | Jan 1, 2021 | Annotations

Before we bid 2020 a final farewell, we share some of our favorite writing from the past year. We wish all of you a happy and healthy New Year, with the hope for brighter days in 2021. In the end, there was darkness; a great yawning maw that filled the heavens with nothing but an […]

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Mignolaversity: The Hellboy Universe Reading Order ― 2020

By Mark Tweedale | Dec 9, 2020 | Annotations

This is an older reading order. Please check out the 2023 version. Back in 2014, Multiversity Comics published our reading order for the Hellboy Universe and we’ve updated in annually ever since. We almost skipped this year. Thanks to the pandemic there wasn’t really much to update. However, with all the new omnibuses that have […]

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Isu Codices, Volume 14: Catching up with “Assassin’s Creed”

By Gregory Ellner | Dec 1, 2020 | Annotations

Welcome back to the Isu Codices. Since our last journey into pre-unification Norway, the latest installment in the Assassin’s Creed game franchise was released, and with it a bit more information about the world. Not nearly as much as we may have hoped, but it may color what is said here. However, there will only […]

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The Devil in Detail, A Daredevil Retrospective #7: Roulette, The King of Hell’s Kitchen and One More Day

By James Dowling | Nov 10, 2020 | Annotations

Welcome to the Devil in Detail, where I’m going to trace our way through 40 years of Daredevil and the seminal runs that began each era: Frank Miller in the 1980s, Brian Michael Bendis in the 2000s and Chip Zdarsky in the 2020s. This week we have the end of Miller and Janson in ‘Roulette’ […]

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Isu Codices, Volume 13: Catching up with “Assassin’s Creed”

By Gregory Ellner | Nov 3, 2020 | Annotations

Welcome back to the Isu Codices. A few things have changed about the Assassin’s Creed franchise and its approach to comics. First off, the English translation of second installment in the “Assassin’s Creed: Bloostone” duology has been delayed to January, and so will be kept until then. Secondly, the rights to the Assassin’s Creed comics […]

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The Devil in Detail, A Daredevil Retrospective #6: The Last Hand, Hardcore and Inferno

By James Dowling | Oct 13, 2020 | Annotations

Welcome to the Daredevil Retrospective, where I’m going to trace our way through 40 years of Daredevil and the seminal runs that began each era: Frank Miller in the 1980s, Brian Michael Bendis in the 2000s and Chip Zdarsky in the 2020s. This week we have Miller and Janson’s ‘The Last Hand’ and other stories, […]

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