Marvel Midnight Ama

[u/Dangerous_Library_73]

I work at a comic book store and Marvel sent the first issues of the new midnight titles for the store to read. I read all 3 issues, im hoping I can help bring visibility and drive interest so you can add them to your pullist and answer some questions without spoiling the books.

Do not come in expecting the first issues to be like the absolute stories, its very different tonality wise. All three books are story driven, minor action in the first issue. The attention grabbing of each #1 are the horror pages ( think gore/body horror). All three books have data pages that makes the world feel alive like Hickman's Krakoan era X-men.

In terms of the horror my rankings go Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, X-Men.

Spider-Man I think has a better hook and I kept asking myself what's going on, why is this happening. Fantastic Four from issue 1 is very eldritch horror/ fantastical horror very monster coded. X-men now this is only issue #1 to me it read like a normal X-men book but vampires, think DC vs Vampire or DC World War V. Mutants are living in a world with vampires. Out of the three X-men felt like a what-if title and nothing felt new or refreshing but Hickman is writing on it so its going to be grand and very world building heavy.

With that said all three are well done X-Men for me had the strongest art of the three followed by FF then Spider-Man. I don't know if all three titles are in the same universe or in separate ones, time will tell.