Multiversity: Multiplicity

Over the years Tomasi has used many characters and concepts created, or revamped, by Morrison so no surprise that he had a crack at Multiversity as well. And what better opportunity to do it if not when he was the main writer of Superman?

For me Tomasi has something like 50/50 hit ratio when it comes to using Morisson's toys and sadly this has to be one of the biggest duds that he has written.

On paper this sounds like a good story. Some villain is kidnaping and draining Supermen from various Earths. We got our main guy and Justice Incarnate (now Justice League Incarnate I guess) involved and some other characters. So how does it fail?

It reads like a filler. Villain is generic and bland, we don't get much of him in general. We never really learn why or how any of this is working asides of some vague hints about coming new threats. At the end he is captured by another villain hinting at other plots that are yet to come, but never really do. And maybe it is good thing that many of those plans relating to Oz and Watchmen got sidelined.

Since it reads like a filler and is building up towards bigger events it naturally then doesn't have much to do with this Superman run thematically either. It is likely to be least relevant Superman story in this run that was written by Tomasi and Gleason. And well, looking at how many characters were involved in it... it is baffling.

All this would be fine, fine as in everyone would forget about this ever happening and move on. But Tomasi for some reason decides that he needs to rise the stakes for this filler arc and has Red Racer, Flash from another Earth, dying because you know, Flash died in a big story once and this is totally a big story too.

And I actually don't mind how he died, I thought it was fun concept, but it wasn't earned at all. He basically did noting else entire story and it felt kinda random. And well, you probably shouldn't kill characters in filler stories

To sum it up it is a gigantic waste of time with some unfortunate repercussions.

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