Finished reading Multiversity, this embarks on writer Grant Morrison's tour of the DC multiverse as he is joined by a slew of great art talent to tell this overarching story. The book opens up with a landlady knocking on the door of Nix Uotan the last of the Monitors who uses a interdimensional transport to go to Earth-7 where he finds the world to look post apocalyptic after a few interdimensional creatures attacked the Earth. Once seeing this Nix tells Thunderer the last hero of the Earth to use the transport to get reinforcements for other Earths within the multiverse. Once Thunderer assembles a team lead by the Superman of Earth-23 they find themselves on Earth-8 were they meet the superhero team called the Retaliators when a twisted version of Nix appears in front of the hero. The book then showcases several stories featuring different universes within the DC multiverse. The first features the Society of Super-Heroes of Earth-20 as they are being invaded by the Society of Super-Criminals of Earth-40. The next story set on Earth-16 follows the children of superheroes that create their own team called The Just while the Justice League is formed by former sidekicks and older heroes. The following story stars the heroes of Earth-4, dubbed Pax Americana who find one of their own at the centre of the assassination of the American President which leads to a very interesting mystery that leads to the story constantly flashing back to show more information about what happened. The fourth story centres around the Earth-4 version of Captain Marvel when the villainous Dr Sivana kidnaps the wizard Shazam allowing him to harness Captain Marvel's powers by bestowing them onto his children while devising a plan with multiple versions of himself in order take over the whole multiverse. The next story tells two almost interconnecting stories of the young Batman of Earth-43 meeting with the Batman of Earth-17 while on the post apocalyptic Earth-51 the last boy of Earth, Kamandi is joined by Prince Tuftan and bioMAC as all of the characters discover the origins of the Multiverse and what each universe contains by including a guidebook of the Multiverse inside and part of the story itself. The penultimate story tells the tail of the Superman of Earth-10 who crash landed in Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia in 1938 which lead to Germany winning the Second World War and even occupying America where Superman makes his home in present day. The last of the stories is set on Earth-33 where the hero Ultraman and his creator speaks to the reader as the story itself is very self aware of its surroundings by interacting with the reader. The book concludes with the ending of the opening story as all of the heroes of the multiverse join forces to take on the threat of the twisted version of Nix Uotan and the other interdimensional creatures. Overall this was an amazing book as writer Grant Morrison structures a very captivating story that takes the form of multiple stories that feature different variations of heroes and villains, while being able to still tell one large overarching story. Each of the singular stories are amazing as each helps to show the range that Grant Morrison has, as each story is just as great as the last and barely skip a beat or even dip in quality. The artwork within the book is amazing as each story plays to the strengths of each art team on each story. Even the Guidebook itself that is incorporated in to the book, by a great use of storytelling, features different universes that are drawn by different artists. 9.5/10.
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