Browsing: Midnight

It’s been a strange year for Marvel. Having fallen behind rival DC in market share and critical acclaim, the superhero publisher has realized things need to change. Several longtime executives have been replaced, there’s a new editor-in-chief, and the publisher is moving all of its editorial staff and operations from New York City to Los…

Midnight Spider-Man is one of three new titles that Marvel released in its Midnight Universe horror line. The new story is a very different take on Spider-Man’s origin story. In this retelling, Oscorp is developing something by testing it on employees against their will, and it mutates them and eventually causes their bodies to fall…

Earlier this month, Marvel launched its much-anticipated Midnight Universe, a new shared universe line of books reinterpreting the publisher’s iconic superheroes through the lens of horror, a genre that certainly has been experiencing newfound success in the entertainment in the past year. Considering that horror often thrives in times of uncertainty, it shouldn’t come as…

If there’s one thing comics love, it’s presenting alternate versions of classic characters. Whether that’s in an alternate timeline/future story, like X-Men’s “Age of Apocalypse,”or a hypothetical non-canonical tale, like “Elseworlds” or “What If,”writers love to dream up new ways of interpreting their favorite characters. While I don’t always gravitate towards these, the recent success…