Grant Morrison's Multiversity: Thunderworld


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This may be the best Captain Marvel has been written by DC in I don't know how long.

I don't know, DC has been so bad at Captain Marvel for so long, maybe my standards are low but this was a damn fine book. An excellent portrayal of the Captain not as a man-boy but as the Hero he is supposed to be.

the legion of Multiverse Sivannas was interesting too. Covered every possible extreme from the Noble Prize winning physicist who is probably going to go nuts on discovering that every other version of himself is a crazed supervillain to that one psycho version that even the others are disturbed by.

did anyone else check this out


I've read a lot of Morrison over the years.

I soured on him after a while. Final Crisis was the final straw, though it had been building for years.

Tastes differ, but my nerdrage... the memories of so many threads arguing about the guy... no takers when I tried to get them to explain exactly what the "meta" genius was.

But when he is on, he's on. The Captain Marvel Superman encountered in that Final Crisis one shot, was a "true" Captain Marvel.

Just saying I'm not surprised. I pretty much dropped DC a few months ago, except for any appearance of the Legion.

I'll have to pick this up. I honestly had no idea it had finally happened, I mean it's only been what... five years?


I'm happy about this for two reasons.

One: it was a genuinely fun read. Not the gloomy, angsty, "we want Christopher Nolan to direct the movie" stuff that makes up the too much of the New 52.

Two: DC isn't going to give away a name they paid for and fought hard in the past to keep - Captain Marvel.
Seriously, in the New 52, how do they get that he's called "Shazam"? If he says it, he changes. This was why Freddy stated going by CM3, because he couldn't say "Captain Marvel" without getting a bolt of lightning.
And New 52 "Shazam" looks - well see #1 above.

Easily the best thing in Multiversity. Though Earth-10 - Mastermen was interesting, and I'd pick as #2 or 3. And Earth-20 could be interesting - but the portrayal rushed and skipped over years of events.

Earth-16/Earth-Me annoyed me big time. Earth-16 belongs to Young Justice. Reassigning the # is just one more bit of disrespect to the fans. And worse, Morrison said that the Bronze Age Earth (Earth-Me) was part of the 52 after Infinite Crisis. So it was already one of the (then) 13 unidentified universes. So why did it have to take "16"?

But Thunderworld was great.

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