The Multiverse is Ours!
MULTIVERSE IS an all-new regular comics magazine made in the UK and coming our way!
Multiverse is the brainchild of Comics international's last publisher and co-Eagle Award creator Mike Conroy along with Barry Renshaw.
Aiming squarely for the mainstream, but promising not to neglect other formats and genres of the comics scene past and present it looks to be a colourful, vital and much needed magazine now Comics International and Crikey! have bit the big one, promising features, news and star interviews.
Multiverse will be available soon through all good comic shops, but visitors to this year's BICS 2010 that takes place in Birmingham this weekend will be able to see see advance promotional copies for themselves!
Copies of the very special Multiverse #0 will be given away free to those attending the show by kind arrangement between Conroy and BICS.
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I believe in print. I believe in the deadline. And I believe a regular magazine focussed on the comics medium still has a vital place on the marketplace, and more to the point - cynically-minded hack that I am – that it should be able to turn a decent profit.
Leafing through the Multiverse sampler it looks the part: visually it reminds us a little of its predecessor Comics International but better designed, and I don’t just mean it’s all full-colour flash because even my aging eyes are able to decipher the text; meaning some thought’s actually gone into the pages presented thus far.
While the content treads steadfastly down a mainstream track it’s presented in an engaging manner and in Mike Conroy’s editorial I can hear the same sense of enthusiasm for the medium as when I first met him in a crowded hotel bar late one night in Glasgow oh so many years ago: there's a promise of good things to come there, and I trust they ring true.
If the Multiverse can offer multiple opinions, that are diverse and engaging, and more so that that they are informed rather than just being individual pet peeves; if it can deliver news that’s not a naff grammatical faux pas of a press release that’s already been viewed as an “exclusive” on half-a-dozen websites; if it can deliver on interviews that aren’t twee and actually worth a read, and is then able to back it all up with a practical understanding of the comics medium (and a little of how it works behind-the-scenes) beyond its surface gloss then count me in!
I believe in print. I believe in the deadline. And I believe a regular magazine focussed on the comics medium still has a vital place on the marketplace, and more to the point - cynically-minded hack that I am – that it should be able to turn a decent profit.
Leafing through the Multiverse sampler it looks the part: visually it reminds us a little of its predecessor Comics International but better designed, and I don’t just mean it’s all full-colour flash because even my aging eyes are able to decipher the text; meaning some thought’s actually gone into the pages presented thus far.
While the content treads steadfastly down a mainstream track it’s presented in an engaging manner and in Mike Conroy’s editorial I can hear the same sense of enthusiasm for the medium as when I first met him in a crowded hotel bar late one night in Glasgow oh so many years ago: there's a promise of good things to come there, and I trust they ring true.
If the Multiverse can offer multiple opinions, that are diverse and engaging, and more so that that they are informed rather than just being individual pet peeves; if it can deliver news that’s not a naff grammatical faux pas of a press release that’s already been viewed as an “exclusive” on half-a-dozen websites; if it can deliver on interviews that aren’t twee and actually worth a read, and is then able to back it all up with a practical understanding of the comics medium (and a little of how it works behind-the-scenes) beyond its surface gloss then count me in!