British comics/pop culture magazine Multiverse will launch a U.S. edition in February in conjunction with Ardden Entertainment.  The first U.S. issue will be 68 pages at a $4.99 promotional price. 

The magazine is the handiwork of publisher/editor Mike Conroy, the longtime editor and news editor of Comics International.  Conroy said of the title, “My goal has always been to produce an entertaining title that occupies the middle ground between the late Wizard and the moved-to-another-plane Comics Journal—that is just straightforward reportage without the hype or the cerebral dissection.”