Multiversity #7: Ultra Comics. This is set in the real world – our actual world, the one you’re reading this article in. He claims they are using an amazing new technology to craft this issue that he can’t talk about or reveal, but he insisted that “this book is haunted!”

“The Earth Prime one, the Ultra Comics,” Morrison told me, “it’s like a technology, it’s like we’ve discovered something you can do with comics that hasn’t been done. In terms of novelty, that’s really got me excited, you know? I don’t want to talk about what it is, because other people will latch onto it and probably use it before I get a chance. It’s so obvious, I can’t believe no one’s done this thing. It’s a haunted comic book! You will have an experience you’ve not had before. It’s a haunted comic book. It doesn’t involve anything that you’ve never seen in a comic book before. We use the old style technology of panels on a page and ink.”

“What would a superhero be like in this world?” he posited. “It’s not Kick-Ass and it’s not Batman. It’s something you have never seen before, and it’s for real and an actual superhero. We’re going to make a superhero in front of you.”

Multiversity #6: Master Men – basically, it will be Nazi superheroes, in a reality formerly known as Earth X (aka Earth 10, he said, which hearkens back to Weapon X becoming Weapon Ten) where the Nazis won World War II and took over the world. What if baby Kal-El’s ship landed in the Sudetenland? Morrison says this is his epic Shakespearean Game of Thrones kind of heavy parallel world story, and it apparently opens with Hitler on the toilet reading Action Comics.

“Imagine you’re Superman,” Morrison explained, “and for the first 25 years of your life, you were working for Hitler, and then you realize ‘oh my god, it’s Hitler! Shit! Now I get it! Now I see who the baddie is!’ And he cleans up, and they create a utopia, but the utopia is based on the Nazi principles that he was indoctrinated with, so the architecture’s all this soaring, cheesy, sentimental, overwrought, overwritten, grotesque stuff. Everything’s overblown, everything’s wrong, everything’s ripe and ready for destruction in this culture, and Superman knows it, so you’ve got this conflicted character. Not only a Nazi Superman, but a Nazi Superman who knows that his entire society, although it looks utopian, is built on the bones of the dead and is ultimately wrong and must be destroyed.

“Into this come the Freedom Fighter characters, led by Uncle Sam, who is the last remnant of an America that was conquered in 1956, and he’s now gathered all the people that Hitler killed – give me your huddled masses, basically. The Freedom Fighters characters, we recast them all as Hitler’s enemies. Doll Man’s a Jehovah’s Witness, The Ray is gay, Black Condor’s a black man, Phantom Lady’s a gypsy – basically, all the people who Hitler persecuted and they suddenly come back. This is the return of the repressed.”

Multiversity #5: Thunderworld. This will be Morrison’s attempt to deliver a pure, all-ages story of Captain Marvel (aka Shazam, although he told me he’s still using the name Captain Marvel) without irony, to see if he can make the purity of Billy Batson resonate with a modern audience without having to make him “edgy.” Here’s some Cameron Stewart art from “Thunderworld.”

“Right now, he’s called Captain Marvel,” Morrison says of the Shazam nomenclature. “I’m still thinking. I want to talk to DC about maybe going back to the Captain Thunder name, but who knows? I don’t know yet. We’ll see what’s best for it. Right now, he’s Captain Marvel. But that one is my attempt to see if you can get the pure note of Captain Marvel, with no irony and no camp and just make it work for everyone. It’s like a myth, a little folk tale. It’s pure. There are no apologies for Mary Bromfield writing in her ‘good deeds’ ledger. The model was Pixar. I tried to think ‘what would Pixar do with this concept?’ We tried to create a really nice, complete adventure that says everything about Captain Marvel that’s pure and great and non-ironic.”