Midnight X-Men Will Be A Story Of Failure, Told Out Of Sequence

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Midnight X-Men Will Be A Story Of Failure, Told Out Of Sequence

Midnight X-Men Will Be A Story Of Failure, Told Out Of Sequence, by Jonathan Hickman and Matteo Della Fonte

Article Summary

• Midnight X-Men: A Story Of Failure follows Jonathan Hickman’s dark mutant vampire saga told out of sequence.
• Hickman says Midnight X-Men is no origin story, but a broken world where readers uncover a decade of collapse.
• Flashbacks reveal a classic-style X-Men team before catastrophe, with some returning transformed by disaster.
• Midnight X-Men shifts far from House of X, embracing an epic, operatic tone built around loss, horror and fallout.

Today is the FOC date for Midnight Universe titles, the last day retailers have to set their Marvel Universe orders. And Bleeding Cool is going to take the day, looking at the titles coming our way. Such as Midnight X-Men. So here’s a Midnight tag for whatever else I write about Midnight on Bleeding Cool today. Jonathan Hickman jumping back onto the X-Men characters is an attempt to change what readers think of when they consider a Jonathan Hickman X-Men comic book, as it will be nothing like his House Of X comic books. Aside from the text pages, of course. It’s an epic, operatic, vampire comic, and includes stuff he’s been playing around with in the back of his head for a really long time.

Midnight X-Men will not be an origin in the same sense as the other two Midnight titles, and Jonathan Hickman sees that as a main distinction; this is an established world for these empires, mutant vampires. The idea is that things have been going wrong for the last decade and we as readers will be playing catch-up, which is the way that most X-Men readers came to the comic books in the first place. So it will be told in a non-linear fashion, and will begin with flashbacks. So we will see an earlier version of the X-Men far closer to the classic look, the original five X-Men, Kitty Pryde, Colossus and more… and something goes very badly wrong for them all, compared to Giant Size X-Men and the Phoenix Saga. They come back (well, some of them come back) changed and kicks off Midnight X-Men. The comic book will be the story of that failure…

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• MIDNIGHT X-MEN #1

  Written by BENJAMIN PERCY Art by KEV WALKER

  FIRST STEPS INTO DARKNESS! An obsessive scientist delves into the secrets of the universe perhaps best left unknown to humankind, leaving himself and three others warped in strange and horrifying ways. What horrible secrets lie in the new dimensions they have discovered? And can humanity survive the discovery? October 7th 2026 $4.99

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• MIDNIGHT X-MEN #2

  Written by JONATHAN HICKMAN Art by MATTEO DELLA FONTE

  Eat. Prey. Love. November 18th 2026 $4.99

• MIDNIGHT X-MEN #3

  Written by JONATHAN HICKMAN Art by MATTEO DELLA FONTE

  NO MUTANTS. NO MERCY. Weapons of Earthly and Heavenly construct. Realms that exist between old failures and the shiny new sins of expedience… December 16th 2026 $4.99

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