Michael Moorcock's Multiverse
| Michael Moorcock's Multiverse | |
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Cover to Michael Moorcock's Multiverse No.1. Art by Walter Simonson
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Helix, an imprint of DC Comics |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Limited series |
| Publication date | 1997 - 1998 |
| Number of issues | 12 |
| Main character(s) |
I: Rose, Sam Oakenhurst, |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Michael Moorcock |
| Artist(s) |
I: Walter Simonson, II: Mark Reeve, III: John Ridgway |
| Colorist(s) | Tatjana Wood |
| Creator(s) | Michael Moorcock |
| Collected editions | |
| Michael Moorcock's Multiverse | ISBN |
I: Rose, Sam Oakenhurst,
Jack Karaquazian,
Michael Moorcock
II: Sir Seaton Begg, Rose von Bek, Dr Taffy Sinclair, Count Zodiac
Michael Moorcock's Multiverse is an American twelve-issue comic book limited series published in 1997 as a part of the short-lived DC Comics imprint Helix. It was later collected as a single edition graphic novel. Written by Michael Moorcock, each monthly issue contained a chapter from three separate storylines featuring distinct groups of characters lifted from Moorcock's sprawling Eternal Champion novels.
A different artist illustrated each story; Walter Simonson for Moonbeams and Roses, Mark Reeve for The Metatemporal Detective and John Ridgway for Duke Elric. Whilst each story depicted an independent series of events set across different locations and time-lines, by the conclusion of the title the three plot threads had converged in a logical manner centred on their mutual search for the Silverskin, an enigmatic underworld crime figure and recurring protagnonist from Moorcock's novels.
Despite a positive reception in comparison with other Helix titles, critics remarked that the title was not the best introduction to Moorcock's work.
Each of the three tales is set within a distinct aspect of the multiverse that Moorcock has built up over four decades in his novels and short stories about the Eternal Champion:
...the Multiverse isn't a globe. Time isn't cyclic. There is no real linearity. The Multiverse is a tree root and branch, a living organism. A creature. Like me. Forever adapting and changing. Like us, made up of spheres, but it's not itself spherical. We've evolved beyond the merely spheroid, I hope......
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