artist: Ivan Reis
And it all boils down to: Morrison's love letter to superhero comics. That's what The Multiversity is, when you strip away everything else, all the stories he told in the pages of the individual issues, even the extremely clever and begging-to-be-a-standalone-classic Pax Americana.
All throughout Multiversity the characters have been reading Multiversity itself. Typical meta Morrison, right? Except this time, he has a greater point to make. Superhero comics often get a bad rap. They're throwaway nonsense, escapist literature for light readers. Except they're not. Morrison certainly doesn't see them that way.
What he sees is this: Something that adds value to the reader's life. That's why Nix Uotan, in Earth 0 a regular human, comes up with rent money after bringing together Justice Incarnate, the team cobbled together from the combined adventurers of Multiversity. He hasn't created a new superhero team, he's found a version of the world that makes sense to him.
Could you expect a better statement from Grant Morrison?
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