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Sailor Moon Cosmos

By Christopher Chiu-Tabet | Aug 26, 2024 | Movies, Reviews

14 months after it was released in Japan, Sailor Moon Cosmos, the two-part film concluding the second anime version of the manga — that began with the Crystal series, and continued with the Eternal movies — has now landed on Netflix with its English dub, bringing the more faithful take on Naoko Takeuchi’s story to […]

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Deadpool & Wolverine

By Christopher Chiu-Tabet | Jul 26, 2024 | Movies, Reviews

No spoilers, but there is one pretty inessential post-credits scene. Well, here we are at long last, 15 years since X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the movie this site was founded to defend, with Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman finally reunited, and making their way into the MCU five years after the sale of 20th Century Fox/Studios. […]

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Mignolaversity: “Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser” Omnibus

By Greg Matiasevich and Mark Tweedale | Jun 3, 2024 | Reviews

We’re looking back at a classic today, Howard Chaykin and Mike Mignola’s 1991 adaptation of Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories, as well as the 1973 adaptations, collection together in a new omnibus from Dark Horse Comics. Just so you know, there are a few spoilers ahead. Created by Fritz Leiber Written by […]

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The Damned Speakeasy: “The Damned” Deluxe Omnibus

By Mark Tweedale | Jun 3, 2024 | Interviews

Welcome to The Damned Speakeasy, a column dedicated to Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt’s “The Damned” from Oni Press. We’ve been lying low for a few years, but we’re back with some good news. This coming November, Oni Press will be releasing a deluxe omnibus collection of “The Damned”, so pour yourself a drink and […]

Multiversity Says Goodbye: “In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night”

By Brian Salvatore | May 31, 2024 | Columns

Featured image from “Green Lantern” #198, art by Joe Staton It always amazes me how small seeds grow into mighty oaks. A random search on the iTunes Podcast Store in 2010 (yes, it was actually called that) led me to a podcast called Spoiler Alert with Matt and Mocle. That was my first introduction to […]

Multiversity Says Goodbye: “Goodbye, Multiversity Comics (or, A Blog of One’s Own)”

By Matthew Meylikhov | May 31, 2024 | Columns

Matthew Meylikhov started Multiversity Comics. We are all here because of him. Matt is easily the best editor I’ve (Brian) ever written for, and I take his words into account every time I write anything. He’s also a true friend and the owner of a fantastic beard. We’ve hosted podcasts and parties together, and he’s […]

Where to Find Multiversity Alumni Online

By Brian Salvatore | May 31, 2024 | Columns

Hey folks, We would like to, once again, thank you all for your support of Multiversity over the past 15 years. The lovely comments we’ve received over the last month have been truly overwhelming, and we want you to know that we’ve read and appreciated all of them. Y’all are the best. Even though today […]

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Multiversity Says Goodbye: “Smile, Because It Happened”

By Kate Kosturski | May 31, 2024 | Columns

(Header image courtesy of Kate’s personal photo collection.) Kate Kosturski has been the face of MC’s social media for six years now. She’s also been my (Brian) consigliere over that time, running ideas both good and bad past her, and truly appreciating her sage words. I never expected to get emotional over writing a tweet […]

Multiversity Says Goodbye: “Five Thoughts on the Multiversity Comics Experience”

By David Harper | May 31, 2024 | Columns

David Harper was an editor at Multiversity, the first person I (Brian) knew with a ‘video podcast,’ and the writer of the funniest image caption in the history of the site. He know runs the Eisner-nominated Sktchd. In the grand scheme of this site, my time here was just a blip in its lengthy run, […]

“Batman” #401

By Brian Salvatore | May 31, 2024 | Reviews

It would be impossible for me to remember the first comic I ever owned; as I’ve mentioned time and time again on this site, my dad would take me on Saturday mornings to a coffee shop called the Varsity in Closter, NJ. He would buy two cups of coffee in the classic blue ‘We are […]

Multiversity Says Goodbye: “Some Sunny Day”

By Elias Rosner | May 31, 2024 | Columns

Elias Rosner has been the manager at large at Multiversity for the past few years, and is truly a man of many talents, from podcaster to interviewer to (perhaps) my personal favorite review writer on staff. The most local of my (Brian) MC compatriots, we somehow have never run into each other in the wild. […]

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“It’s Jeff!” #1

By Robbie Pleasant | May 31, 2024 | Reviews

As Multiversity Comics comes to a close, we’ve been given the chance to review any comic. So, for my final review here, what better choice than a look at Multiversity’s favorite land shark, Jeff? Written by Kelly Thompson Illustrated by Gurihiru Colored by Gurihiru Lettered by no one – there’s no dialogue JEFF THE LANDSHARK […]

Multiversity Says Goodbye: “The Good Stuff”

By Michelle White | May 31, 2024 | Columns

Michelle White was the first regular female contributor to Multiversity Comics. The featured image is from “Mind the Gap” #1, a series Michelle annotated for the site. I started writing at Multiversity because I wanted to read more comics. I wasn’t particularly knowledgable, and hadn’t read very widely, and I figured becoming a reviewer was […]

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Multiversity Says Goodbye: “The DC3’s Got This”

By Brian Salvatore, Vince Ostrowski and Zach Wilkerson | May 31, 2024 | Columns

The DC3 – Vince Ostrowski, Zach Wilkerson, and Brian Salvatore – started writing about DC Comics as a trio in 2013. They’ve now made over 500 episodes of a podcast, maddening their wives and children along the way. The boys discuss their starts at the site, some favorite memories, laugh a bunch, get sentimental, and […]

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The Rundown: May 31, 2024

By Christopher Chiu-Tabet | May 31, 2024 | News

This article has been updated since its publication. Welcome back to The Rundown, our daily breakdown on comic news stories we missed from the previous day. Have a link to share? Email our team at rundown@multiversitycomics.com. Before we begin, a reminder that today marks Multiversity’s final day of regular service. Thank you for reading, and […]

Five Thoughts on Star Trek: Discovery‘s “Life, Itself”

By Christopher Egan | May 30, 2024 | Television

This is it. The end of the road. The show that brought Star Trek back to television for the first time in over a decade has come to a close and through its ups and downs it found its detractors and its fans. And no matter what side of the aisle you fall on, if […]

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Multiversity Says Goodbye: “Strange Love”

By Jeremy Holt | May 30, 2024 | Columns

Jeremy Holt is one of a handful of former Multiversity writers to move from writing about comics to actually writing comics, including work for DC, Marvel, Simon & Schuster, and more. Multiversity Comics provided an online space for all of us to revel in our love for comic books. It holds a special place in […]

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Multiversity Says Goodbye: Join Us For Our Livestream of X-Men Origins: Wolverine Friday at 4pm ET

By Multiversity Staff | May 30, 2024 | Columns

As we refuse to let you forget, Multiversity Comics was started because our founder Matthew Meylikhov thought X-Men Origins: Wolverine wasn’t as bad as folks were saying. Whether we all agree with him or not is a topic for another day…actually, that day is tomorrow. As the last ‘official’ action of Multiversity in its full […]

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Multiversity Says Goodbye: Reinventing Webcomics

By Elias Rosner | May 30, 2024 | Longform

When Multiversity launched its webcomics initiative back in 2018, we had bold plans. These are the details of those plans.

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Exclusive Preview: “Ms. Marvel: Mutant Menace” #4

By Christopher Chiu-Tabet | May 30, 2024 | Previews

Hard to believe, but it’s been ten-and-a-half years since Ms. Marvel/Kamala Khan’s first comics series debuted – how strange to think Iman Vellani, who brought her to life in the MCU and co-wrote her latest series, was only 11 at the time. We are pleased to present an exclusive preview of the final issue of […]

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Multiversity Says Goodbye: “On Haikus and Helstrom“

By Robbie Pleasant | May 30, 2024 | Columns

Robbie Pleasant has written over 500 articles for Multiversity, and has been on our de facto Marvel experts, both on the screen and in the comics. March 23, 2016, I posted my first review: Five Thoughts on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.‘s “Parting Shot.” I had just been invited to join the Multiversity team by my friend […]

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The DC3cast, Episode 433: “DC Pride 2024”

By Brian Salvatore, Vince Ostrowski and Zach Wilkerson | May 29, 2024 | Podcasts

The DC3cast is Multiversity’s weekly podcast digging into all things DC Comics. Each week, hosts Vince, Zach, and Brian dig into the most important weekly releases, specifically focusing on ‘Infinite Frontier’ titles. Plus, they review DC films now and then, and sometimes dig into older runs/events. Don’t worry, the DC3’s got this! The boys spend […]

The DC3cast, Episode 432: “Alan Scott: The Green Lantern” #6 and “Green Lantern War Journal” #9

By Brian Salvatore and Vince Ostrowski | May 22, 2024 | Podcasts

The DC3cast is Multiversity’s weekly podcast digging into all things DC Comics. Each week, hosts Vince, Zach, and Brian dig into the most important weekly releases, specifically focusing on ‘Infinite Frontier’ titles. Plus, they review DC films now and then, and sometimes dig into older runs/events. Don’t worry, the DC3’s got this! With Zach in […]

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The DC3cast, Episode 431: 2024 Free Comic Book Day Special, “Action Comics” #1065, and “Outsiders” #7

By Brian Salvatore, Vince Ostrowski and Zach Wilkerson | May 15, 2024 | Podcasts

The DC3cast is Multiversity’s weekly podcast digging into all things DC Comics. Each week, hosts Vince, Zach, and Brian dig into the most important weekly releases, specifically focusing on ‘Infinite Frontier’ titles. Plus, they review DC films now and then, and sometimes dig into older runs/events. Don’t worry, the DC3’s got this! The boys are […]

Robots From Tomorrow: Episode 304 – Samuel Teer on Assembling “VEDA”

By Greg Matiasevich | May 9, 2024 | Podcasts

In tandem with our episode last week with writer Samuel Teer about his upcoming OGN Brownstone, we represent his chat with Mike and Greg from June 16, 2016. Dark Horse Month continues both at Multiversity and here on the show, as the lads welcome writer Samuel Teer to the underground recording studio for some talk […]

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Multiversity Says Goodbye: “In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night”

By Brian Salvatore | May 31, 2024 | Columns

Featured image from “Green Lantern” #198, art by Joe Staton It always amazes me how small seeds grow into mighty oaks. A random search on the iTunes Podcast Store in 2010 (yes, it was actually called that) led me to a podcast called Spoiler Alert with Matt and Mocle. That was my first introduction to […]

Multiversity Says Goodbye: “Goodbye, Multiversity Comics (or, A Blog of One’s Own)”

By Matthew Meylikhov | May 31, 2024 | Columns

Matthew Meylikhov started Multiversity Comics. We are all here because of him. Matt is easily the best editor I’ve (Brian) ever written for, and I take his words into account every time I write anything. He’s also a true friend and the owner of a fantastic beard. We’ve hosted podcasts and parties together, and he’s […]

Where to Find Multiversity Alumni Online

By Brian Salvatore | May 31, 2024 | Columns

Hey folks, We would like to, once again, thank you all for your support of Multiversity over the past 15 years. The lovely comments we’ve received over the last month have been truly overwhelming, and we want you to know that we’ve read and appreciated all of them. Y’all are the best. Even though today […]

Press Passes

Multiversity Says Goodbye: “Smile, Because It Happened”

By Kate Kosturski | May 31, 2024 | Columns

(Header image courtesy of Kate’s personal photo collection.) Kate Kosturski has been the face of MC’s social media for six years now. She’s also been my (Brian) consigliere over that time, running ideas both good and bad past her, and truly appreciating her sage words. I never expected to get emotional over writing a tweet […]

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Multiversity Says Goodbye: Reinventing Webcomics

By Elias Rosner | May 30, 2024 | Longform

When Multiversity launched its webcomics initiative back in 2018, we had bold plans. These are the details of those plans.

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Transformers at 40: What the Robots in Disguise Taught Me About Being Human

By Christopher Chiu-Tabet | May 8, 2024 | Longform

On May 8, 1984, Marvel Comics released the first issue of “The Transformers” (cover dated September 1.) Written by Bill Mantlo and Ralph Macchio, with art by Frank Springer, Kim DeMulder, and Nelson Yomtov, and edited by Bob Budiansky, the cartoonist who had been tasked by Hasbro and Griffin-Bacal Advertising to create the names and […]

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Ten Transformers Who Deserve a Live-Action Paramount+ Spin-Off

By Christopher Chiu-Tabet | Apr 17, 2024 | Longform

Featured art by Andrew Griffith from “The Transformers” #38 (2015). As we approach the 40th anniversary of Transformers, there remains one form of storytelling the series hasn’t really touched yet: live-action TV. For years, the idea was a non-starter, thanks to the enormous costs it would require, but with the way streaming shows are monetized, […]

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Captain America: The Winter Soldier: A Retrospective

By Ryan Fitzmartin | Apr 4, 2024 | Longform

“Whose strong and brave, here to save the American way? Who vows to fight like a man for what’s right night and day?” These are the opening lyrics to “The Star Spangled Man,” the in-universe Captain America theme song from a glorious era of swashbuckling, swastika smashing, do-gooder action. In the 1940s, the bad guys […]

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Sailor Moon Cosmos

By Christopher Chiu-Tabet | Aug 26, 2024 | Movies, Reviews

14 months after it was released in Japan, Sailor Moon Cosmos, the two-part film concluding the second anime version of the manga — that began with the Crystal series, and continued with the Eternal movies — has now landed on Netflix with its English dub, bringing the more faithful take on Naoko Takeuchi’s story to […]

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Deadpool & Wolverine

By Christopher Chiu-Tabet | Jul 26, 2024 | Movies, Reviews

No spoilers, but there is one pretty inessential post-credits scene. Well, here we are at long last, 15 years since X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the movie this site was founded to defend, with Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman finally reunited, and making their way into the MCU five years after the sale of 20th Century Fox/Studios. […]

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Mignolaversity: “Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser” Omnibus

By Greg Matiasevich and Mark Tweedale | Jun 3, 2024 | Reviews

We’re looking back at a classic today, Howard Chaykin and Mike Mignola’s 1991 adaptation of Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories, as well as the 1973 adaptations, collection together in a new omnibus from Dark Horse Comics. Just so you know, there are a few spoilers ahead. Created by Fritz Leiber Written by […]

“Batman” #401

By Brian Salvatore | May 31, 2024 | Reviews

It would be impossible for me to remember the first comic I ever owned; as I’ve mentioned time and time again on this site, my dad would take me on Saturday mornings to a coffee shop called the Varsity in Closter, NJ. He would buy two cups of coffee in the classic blue ‘We are […]

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The Damned Speakeasy: “The Damned” Deluxe Omnibus

By Mark Tweedale | Jun 3, 2024 | Interviews

Welcome to The Damned Speakeasy, a column dedicated to Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt’s “The Damned” from Oni Press. We’ve been lying low for a few years, but we’re back with some good news. This coming November, Oni Press will be releasing a deluxe omnibus collection of “The Damned”, so pour yourself a drink and […]

Mary Pope Osborne on Free Play, Reading, and Joy in “Magic Tree House”

By Elias Rosner | May 27, 2024 | Interviews

Mary Pope Osborne is not a big name in comics but she is a gigantic name in the world of children's literature. Her "Magic Tree House" series has been running for over 30 years and inspired multiple generations of readers, like myself, to inquire deeply and with openness. Her 39th (or maybe it's 67th) "Magic Tree House" book, "Windy Night with Wild Horses" has just come out. It was a joy to get to talk to her about a wide range of topics related to her books, in particular the graphic novel adaptations by Jenny Laird and Kelly & Nicole Matthews that are going three years strong, with book 7, "Sunset of the Sabertooth" on the horizon.

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Jeff McComsey Talks “Little Black Book”

By Chris Cole | May 23, 2024 | Interviews

Imagine this: You inherent a home from your late father. While cleaning up you discover a small notebook with numbers for “cleaners” and “decorators.” It’s hard to shake the feeling that these aren’t your average home beautification professionals. And after an unfortunate turn of events, you dial one and find out for yourself. This is […]

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“Petrol Head: Welcome to the Non-Human Race”

By Mark Tweedale | Apr 25, 2024 | Interviews

Last month, the first arc of “Petrol Head” wrapped up. For those of you that haven’t read it yet, the series is kind of The Iron Giant meets Mad Max: Fury Road. The trade paperback collection is currently available for pre-order with the final order cut-off on Monday, April 29, so make sure you get […]

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Butcher’s Block, Slab 9: Carving Through “Hack/Slash”

By Gregory Ellner | Apr 22, 2024 | Annotations

Welcome to Butcher’s Block, our “Hack/Slash” annotation. With the Kickstarter-funded hardcover compilation of most of the crossovers between “Hack/Slash” and other franchises, noted as “Hack/Slash Vol. X: The Crossovers,” in print, alongside another fourth volume of the main deluxe hardcovers, there are two additions to the overarching narrative that deserves some attention, and the various […]

Feature: 25 Years of Hellboy

Mignolaversity: The Hellboy Universe Reading Order ― 2023

By Mark Tweedale | Oct 4, 2023 | Annotations

In 2014, I created a Hellboy Universe reading for Multiversity Comics and every year since, I updated with all the latest books. This is not an official reading order, because there isn’t an official reading order. There is no one way to read the Hellboy Universe. Most of the series in the Hellboy Universe can […]

Feature: 25 Years of Hellboy

Mignolaversity: The Hellboy Universe Reading Order ― 2022

By Mark Tweedale | Aug 29, 2022 | Annotations

This is an older reading order. Please check out the 2023 version. Back in 2014, I created a Hellboy Universe reading for Multiversity Comics. However, with all the new books Dark Horse Comics and Mike Mignola keep putting out, I’ve had to update every year since. So here’s 2022’s reading order, including all the collections […]

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Isu Codices, Volume 22: Catching Up with “Assassin’s Creed”

By Gregory Ellner | Jun 28, 2022 | Annotations

Welcome back to the Isu Codices. This month, we are looking into the English translations of the third volume of the Chinese manhua “Assassin’s Creed Dynasty” and the fourth (and final) volume of the Japanese manga “Assassin’s Creed: Blade of Shao Jun.” Due to the nature of the ‘Forgotten Myths’ comics by Dark Horse making […]

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Five Thoughts on Star Trek: Discovery‘s “Life, Itself”

By Christopher Egan | May 30, 2024 | Television

This is it. The end of the road. The show that brought Star Trek back to television for the first time in over a decade has come to a close and through its ups and downs it found its detractors and its fans. And no matter what side of the aisle you fall on, if […]

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Boomb Tube, The Week in Comic Book Television: 5/19-5/25/2024

By Multiversity Staff | May 27, 2024 | Television

Welcome back to Boomb Tube! Here, we will be catching you up on the week in comics TV, both through micro-reviews, as well as links to our full-length TV reviews. We also tend to review series that are dropped all at once weekly so there are a few ‘older’ shows mixed in for good measure. […]

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Five Thoughts on Dead Boy Detectives‘ “The Case of the Hungry Snake”

By Christopher Chiu-Tabet | May 21, 2024 | Television

On the (hopefully first season) finale of Dead Boy Detectives, Edwin and Charles were saying goodbye to the new friends they’d made this season before returning to London, when Esther the witch struck again, kidnapping the boys so she could harness Edwin’s trauma to empower her to god-like levels in perpetuity — though not if […]

Boomb Tube, The Week in Comic Book Television: 5/12-5/18/2024

By Multiversity Staff | May 20, 2024 | Television

Welcome back to Boomb Tube! Here, we will be catching you up on the week in comics TV, both through micro-reviews, as well as links to our full-length TV reviews. We also tend to review series that are dropped all at once weekly so there are a few ‘older’ shows mixed in for good measure. […]

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Friday Recommendation: McSweeney’s #13

By Michelle White | Dec 14, 2012 | Columns

The purpose of any anthology, to my mind, is to introduce the reader to material he or she may not have encountered otherwise, usually by grouping submissions around a theme. Here, in the thirteenth issue of the literary quarterly McSweeney’s, the theme is simply comics, with Chris Ware acting as editor; and as you can […]

The Hour Cosmic: Best of the Game Show Era, Vol. 2

By Brian Salvatore, Chad Bowers and Matthew Meylikhov | May 19, 2014 | Podcasts

Because of a last-minute guest cancellation, we decided to bring you a special episode this week. Brian combed through our first ten game show episodes, pulling out especially fun moments from each, and put them together for a sampler/look back at our awkward, teenage episodes, featuring guests Justin Jordan, Becky Cloonan, Jason Latour, Joe Eisma, […]

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What Censorship Looks Like: The “Palomar” Library Challenge Emails

By Greg Matiasevich | Jul 20, 2015 | Longform

The story of Rio Rancho High School pulling the Gilbert Hernandez graphic novel “Palomar” from their library due to a parent challenging it as “child pornography” has received a fair amount of attention since it broke last February. We’ve covered it several times on this site. But new facts have come to light. Specifically, internal […]

The Hour Cosmic, Episode 61: The Mysteries of Knish with Dean Haspiel

By Brian Salvatore, Chad Bowers and Matthew Meylikhov | Mar 17, 2014 | Podcasts

Welcome to another installment of The Hour Cosmic, your favorite comics game show! This week, our guest is artist and writer Dean Haspiel! On this week’s show, among other things, we discuss: – (The lack of) Optimism in comics! – Kiss! – Dean’s early misadventures with DC Comics! Let’s meet our guests, shall we? Dean […]