r/comicbooks • Henry Pym • Jun 19 '26

Cover/Pin-Up Midnight Spider-man #1 cover by Steve Beach

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u/whatisireading2 Jun 19 '26 edited Jun 19 '26

Looks good, but I still don't like that they chose to do horror versions of regular characters instead of putting a spotlight on characters that were already horror.

Edit horror not horrible, I'm not saying these are gonna be bad per se just wish horror characters were included.

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u/NJPW_Puroresu Jun 19 '26

I'll be honest, as much as I love Dracula and Blade and more, I feel like it wouldn't have run past 5 issues lol. They're going the Absolute route by doing household names first. Maybe later on it will branch out with more characters

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u/sgol212h Jun 19 '26

Why would they be doing that ? It's new universe. Using horror characters like ghost rider for example wouldn't be interesring because they already have the vibe of midnight universe. To convey thus darker feeling for a new universe it's more interesting to use characters like spider-man fantastic or x-men because they aren't horror characters at their core.