At the other comic convention currently unfolding in Las Vegas this weekend, Grant Morrison’s Morrison Con, DC has announced Grant’s next big comic event. Amazingly, this one sounds even more complex than Final Crisis was, yet set not only in the New 52, but across several alternate universes.

Multiversity, which has been hinted at for years and filled Morrison fans with various speculation and anticipation, is now fully confirmed by DC Entertainment to be coming to stores in late 2013. Grant Morrison has created a series, which he claims is his love letter to comics, that will not only define the Multiverse for DC’s New 52, but will also provide a handful of new worlds, concepts, heroes and villains for DC fans. However, it seems some of these alternate universes will just be New 52 style retakes of old multiverse planets from DC, such as Earth-Four/4 which held all the Charlton Comics characters.

Multiversity will be an 8-issue series comprising 6 one-shots and a two-part conclusion, with each issue featuring a 38-page lead story followed by an 8-page backup. Each issue is set to take place on a different parallel world from the main DC Earth and functions as a number one issue. Each world in the Multiverse apparently publishes comic books about the heroes on the other worlds and universes. So, once the characters realize this, they decide they must then unite to respond to the villains. Additionally, DC is claiming each universe (which have apparently been brewing in Morrison’s mind for years) will open up “an endless series of worlds and realities for future writers and creators to use, expand upon, and enjoy”. In reality, this likely means 1 or 2 stories of alternate universes might escape Multiversity to find a mini-series or two. It likely depends on whether or not Morrison pulls off an All-Star Superman or just another Final Crisis here.

Below, we have a small preview of Multiversity in the form of a piece of art from Pax Americana #1, one of the six one-shots tying into Multiversity. Illustrated by long time Morrison collaborator, Frank Quitely, Pax Americana takes the original Charlton Comics characters and presents them in a way that’s both new and familiar at the same time, much as the New 52 had done. This page features the Blue Beetle, though it is hard to say if it will be Ted Kord or Dan Garrett (though likely Kord, based on the costume and tech), and the Question (undoubtedly a return to Vic Sage).  But if you’re looking for more on Multiversity, over at Bleeding Cool one of their reporters captured some keen shots of the panel where Grant announced the title at this weekends convention.