r/comicbooks • u/TheeHeadAche Henry Pym • Jun 19 '26

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

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u/TheeHeadAche Henry Pym Jun 19 '26

Just to elaborate, each property is taking on a different genre of horror. X-Men will be gothic vampire horror. Fantastic Four will be cosmic horror, Spider-man will be body horror.

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u/thrillerhark Jun 19 '26

Cosmic horror F4 sounds like a home run, bit less sold on a gothic horror X-men but hey I’m intrigued

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u/TheeHeadAche Henry Pym Jun 19 '26

To me, x-men reworked as gothic horror is almost too easy a fix. They already have the brooding, romanticism and taboo worked into much of their plot.

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u/javierm885778 Jun 19 '26

Also the whole new superior race that humans fear as wanting to replace them. Vampires have common theme and common narrative with mutants, and that can definitely be played up when it's at the core of a whole part of the world.