"Doctor Doom and Doctor Strange: Triumph and Torment" with Jaina and Kevin; or, Going to Hell in a Spell Basket

Welcome Back to Make Mine Multiverse City: A Marvel Podcast! Each episode we’ll be looking at Marvel books, old and new! We discuss fun Marvel comics, Marvel news, Marvel history and, now, are putting the "mine" back into Make Mine Multiverse City. Make Mine Multiversity was a twice-monthly podcast that premiered on the first and third Friday of every month. Now we're shooting for monthly every fourth Friday. How's that for calling my shot? We've got a new format to go with the new schedule! Each month, Elias will be talking with a guest about a Marvel comic that's memorable to them. Sometimes this will be personally meaningful, sometimes it'll be "I read this a few months ago and it's still sticking around." I'm excited to see where it leads. This month, we're welcoming my good friend and former Chief Manager at Large (don't call him EIC) of Multiversity Comics, Brian Salvatore, to the podcast to read "Fantastic Four" #347-349, published in late 1990. It's the one about the skrulls. And the mole man. You know the one. Oh, and I think The Punisher shows up? I should also mention we totally beefed it while talking about legacy characters. How could we have left off Miles Morales?! He's the example of a legacy character with staying power (kinda. Sorta. 616 monkey-wrenches the whole thing.) In our defense...okay, there's no good defense besides "whoopsie." Next time, a couple familiar voices join us as we tie-in with "One World Under Doom" and talk "Doctor Strange and Doctor Doom: Triumph and Torment." Reading along with us? You've got options! The best one is "Doctor Strange" Epic Collection, Vol. 8: Triumph and Torment. Elias can be found writing here at eliasrwrites.ghost.io. Brian can be found on Bluesky ‪@brianneedsanap.bsky.social‬ or hosting a podcast on the Distinguished Competition, TheDC3Cast. Our theme music is “Excelsior” by Carol Romo and our audio editor is me, Elias. If the episode is too quiet, blame him. The show is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, (Stitcher is apparently dead and buried) and other places so please subscribe!

Make Mine Multiversity returns for a special episode.

Make Mine Multiversity's 135th episode is all about endings. For us. For comics. For Marvel. Especially for Marvel. Who knew there'd be so much smooching at the end of it? Thanks Starlin.

Make Mine Multiversity's 134th episode takes us to a faraway land, full of awkward maybe deviants, screens on chests, and square sausage fingers. That's right. It's 'Castaway in Dimension Z.'

As part of Jaina and Elias' farewell tour for Make Mine Multiversity, they're playing all the hits. Episode 133 starts the countdown. This time Spider-Verse, next time, the WORLD! Or, you know, 'Castaway in Dimension Z.'

Make Mine Multiversity's 132nd episode helps settle whether Jaina is the better predictor of Marvel's bullshit or if Elias is. After three years of predictions, you'll never guess who was better.

Make Mine Multiversity's 130th episode returns after its inevitable absence to talk about the rest of MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios. Cameos include purple pens, labor disputes, ambivalence about the project, and Marvel characters galore.

Make Mine Multiversity's 129th episode preps the crew to talk about MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios. Elias read this one! Jaina did not. There are a TON of wild stories. Did you know Leonardo DiCaprio almost played Peter Parker?!

Make Mine Multiversity's 128th episode returns to our lowest moments to talk about the book tie-in to the film that shall not be named: Look Out for the Little Guy! by Scott Lang. God help us all.

Make Mine Multiversity's 127th episode is all about the Duck. Howard the Duck. To celebrate this momentous occasion, we've got a commentary track! Quack quack.

What could get possibly the Make Mine Multiversity crew talking for nearly an hour and a half for five issues? Oh. Of course it's a Hickman joint. Fuck.

The Make Mine Multiversity crew gets ready for the spooky season with their latest book club: a read through of Franken-castle. Yes. You read that correctly. It is a WEIRD book from 2009.

The Make Mine Multiversity crew decides that maybe it's time to talk about the Fall of X. Because OH BOY OH BOY is there a lot to talk about. So much that they don't even do Baseline X. Woooooaahhhhhh.

The Make Mine Multiversity crew breaks down and decides that maybe it's time to talk about the present of Marvel Comics again. Everything X-cept the X-Men in Episode 122 would have been the title, but they do talk a fair amount about them.

In episode 120, the Make Mine Multiversity crew dares to ask the question: is Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania the feel worst film of the year, maybe of the whole MCU? There's no rhetorical there. It is.

Make Mine Multiversity is back with episode 119, where we take a nice deep dive into the latest Avengers run to wrap up and see where we think Jason Aaron's tenure succeeds and fails.

Make Mine Multiversity takes a look at the recent, non-mutant, books that they've been reading in episode 118.

EMERGENCY SPIDERVERSE BROADCAST. THIS IS AN EMERGENCY SPIDERVERSE BROADCAST ON THE MAKE MINE MULTIVERSITY FEED.

The Make Mine Multiversity crew wanted to take a nice breather after all that Eternals. Sadly they both think a breather means doing Judgment of X and returning to their power ranking of all 47(!) X books.