edited 30th Oct '13 8:22:07 PM by NapoleonDeCheese
Simple 4th dimensional lesser beings. Do you think the hypercritical glory that is the all space time consuming Multiversity could be constrained within the mere limits of larval 2 Dimensional electronic mailing?
So is this going to be legitemate 2014 release date, or is another "next year" deal.
I want this story out now, but I've been waiting for like four years.
Sometimes life just sucks. You have to learn to take the good with the bad. Why should you expect anything different in the mediums?
I'd say mid-2014 at the rate we seem to be going: a lot of the art is finished, and the script of the last issue, if this is a real leak, is complete.
I can't imagine this not being real. "Cosmic revolver."
I showed this to didio and he checked with morrison it's fake
Alright, I believe you.
Keeping this up on the off-off-chance it ain't.
I'm probably going to get Multiversity, as I like the concept and especially like the idea of some well-loved characters like Ted and Wally being on separate Earths, facing a multidimensional force. I'm willing to give it a chance. TBH, I'm not a huge fan of Frank Quitely's work, but that won't keep me away.
This sounds like convoluted nonsense. I wish I could say it was outside the range of possibility for Morrison.
A guy e-mailed it to himself from his boss' desk, posted this on /co/, and deleted the thread when someone pointed out that any IT dept. worth its weight in beans would be able to tack it to him even though he deleted it from his boss' sentbox, but not before it got archived.
It appears to be a summary of the last issue of "Multiversity," Grant Morrison's upcoming magnum opus.
Background information: Jack Woods
is the first original protagonist for New Fun Comics, the first comics publication not featuring any reprinted material at all, and the first publication by the company which would eventually become DC.
So first off, the big villain of this piece is Jack Woods. It flashes back to the opening on Multiversity #0; which was Superman’s ship crashing; we then see that Jacks’ “Last Ride” was leading the team of agents that collected the ship. It shows Jack getting older as the Age of Heroes Comes and makes him and all the other old heroes obsolete. (Grant puts in little notes in the script like he did for Serious House. There was even a whole tangent were he joked about a planned “52nd Anniveary” joke but that because of how long it was taking, he had to keep changing what it was the anniversary OF and a whole thing on Cowboys and “Comics Colonialism” in the media) The ones here say Jack aging symbolizes the old pulps getting phased out by Superheroes; and also because Jack Woods stories were set in the past (the 1910s relative to the 1930s) so he’d be older than any other DC Character anyway. Jack narrates this flashback by pointing out that Superhumans make normal people obsolete; Cops, Governments, normal citizens all becoming “background characters” in this “massive drama” of living Gods.
When the Monitors Civilization Fell back in Final Crisis; their “Cosmic Wonders” fell back through time and space to the “Origin Point” of the Multiverse: New Fun Comics. So then we cut to Jack finding the Monitor tech and using it to fashion the Supervillian Armor we’ve seen him in in past series. (I don’t have the scripts for anything else; so I assume he made cameos in his armor in those books)
He uses the Monitor tech to fashion a “Cosmic Six Shooter” and fires Six Bullets through Time and Space that rip holes in reality and BECOME the crisis events of the six other books. (SOS, The Just, Pax Americana, Thunderworld, Mastermen and Ultra Comics)
The Flashback opener ends and its Wood facing down the Multiversity at “The End” (I think this is the same place the Monitors were back at Superman Beyond; it’s always capitalized like that) Then they have an epic fight scene. I mean that literally; the next four pages are just Grant writing “Go to town” and giving a shortlist of character moments.
Some standouts
- Superwoman flirting with Stan Lee Superman
- The Super-pets, JL Apes and Zoo Crew together
- Mecha Superman posing like Optimus Prime
- Circus Superman throwing a green clowncar full of the “Five Ring JLA”
Woods breaks through them and comes to Sourcewall (parsed like that to be distinct from the other walls between the 52) and actually breaks though it to find The Source.This is where it gets weird,
“The Source” is actually the Platonic Ideal of the Sunlight that gives the Supermen their powers; and the way Woods breaks it (he punches right at the Reader through the fourth all) is supposed to imply that The Source is the readers imagination that brings things to life; ala the Lantern Rings and Element X. Woods gets all powered up by absorbing The Source and now that he’s become the Protagonist he takes down the whole Multiversity.
It comes to him against the original Superman and he just punches the crap out of him.
With the final blows he’s literally punching the story out of him; breaking him down to his elements.
After one punch he looks like “Doc Savage as played by Clark Gable” and the another he turns into “Hugo Danner as played by Kent Taylor” Woods punches him a final time and he turns into an old man in a Superman costume (Grant says he supposed to be Siegel and Shuster; though I’m not sure how an artist would get that across) and Woods gives this very “Twilight of the Superheroes” speech (Grant’s words) about how Superhumans take the right of agency away from normal people (reminds me A LOT of his New X Men)
He holds Old Man Superman up and just as he is about to score the Kill Shot he says “What do you have to say to that!”
And then Grant, in what he calls a reversal of the “World in a bottle” line has Superman say
“I guess you’re Superman now”
Woods is shocked; and then, at the edge of Reality; he sees all the good done by the Superheroes (done with the same effect used to show Hypertime in “The Kingdom”) and sees it fading away Old Man Superman starts fading into “Fundamental Ylem” and then in the Single Best Climax I ever have seen, Woods compresses the Superman Essence into a Bullet; loads it into his Six Shooter and FIRES IT BACK THROUGH TIME AND SPACE.[/spoiler:lit] Here’s the best part (and the one I left out from the start to keep this surprise) the Bullet actually fires BACK THROUGH THE STORY; if you lay the pages out of all 8 books; the Bullet is a common line element through all of them; sometimes even BECOMING THE GUTTER. The Bullet flies back through EVERY PAGE OF THIS WHOLE SERIES and then in a very cool shot that has a close up of it cut up into several panels showing it in several universes. We see in phasing through panels; become a Lightening Bolt; A Green Meteor; a Plane; a bullet and then finally It BECOMES Superman’s Spaceship and then crashes on Earth in a recreation of Page 1 of Multiversity #0
Jack Woods fades away at the end of time (“Crisis-Style” Grant says) and then we cut back to Calvin Ellis at his office; looking at his phone as if it was going to ring. It doesn’t. (I’m assuming that in #0; that was the call about whatever crisis started this whole thing; but who knows) He gets a call from off screen that says “Are you ready, sir?” “Ready?” He then walks towards the reader in a full splash; opening his shit Superman Style; but the whole image is cut up into 52 Panels; each one a piece from a different Superman forming a mosaic
“I can’t wait to see what happens next.”
edited 30th Oct '13 11:55:55 PM by Canondorf