[SPEAKER_00]: What is Marvel's Midnight?
[SPEAKER_00]: Kevin Smith takes on Hulk and Spider-Man.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jeffrey Brown takes on AI.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is comic book club news for May 11, 2026.
[SPEAKER_00]: What does Marvel have planned after the end of the ultimate universe this June?
[SPEAKER_00]: How about midnight and all new publishing line that will debut this fall?
[SPEAKER_00]: The short teaser an image provided by Marvel didn't give too much info, but here's the text quote.
[SPEAKER_00]: Marvel Comics presents midnight, a terrifying new universe coming this fall, stay tuned next week for more information on this all new publishing line, including series and creative team reveals.
[SPEAKER_00]: While it would be reasonable to think that this would be an offshoot of the upcoming Queen and Black event which finds the side of light, led by no fighting the side of Dark, led by Hella, this seems to be something else entirely.
[SPEAKER_00]: And in fact, it's been rumoured that this may be more akin to a Marvel absolute horror universe taking the classic Marvel horror characters and giving them their own continuity free world and titles.
[SPEAKER_00]: Confirm to be involved or writer's Jonathan Hickman and Philip Kennedy Johnson, while Benjamin Percy is also teasing his involvement, and the name of the line is potentially a nod to midnight suns.
[SPEAKER_00]: Meaning we could get fresh takes on bleed, ghost writer, and possibly even Dracula will remain thin.
[SPEAKER_00]: Interestingly, this potentially marks the third new universe Hickman has helped launch after the hyper-successful ultimate universe 2.0, and the exponentially less successful relaunch of cosmic Marvel after Imperial, at least Salzwise.
[SPEAKER_00]: So what is midnight?
[SPEAKER_00]: Will it be as big as the ultimate universe?
[SPEAKER_00]: And will it be spooky?
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll know more later this week.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Hulk Spider-Man and Daredevil walk into a church, not the start of a joke, not an imaginary story.
[SPEAKER_00]: Instead, as the plot of the upcoming Marvel Comics One Shots, Spider-Man Hulk, Fire and Brimstone No.
[SPEAKER_00]: 1.
[SPEAKER_00]: Written by Kevin Smith and Andy McElfresh, with Art by RB Silva, the book finds Matt Murdock and Spider-Man assisting Bruce Batter on exercising the Hulk with the help of the church on Easter.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's Smith, via press release, quote.
[SPEAKER_00]: I played with Peter Parker in Swung with Spider-Man before, but this is the first time I'm having Hulk issues.
[SPEAKER_00]: Andy and I are dropping two of Marvel's most well-known scientists into a spiritual story of biblical proportions as we exercise the incredible Hulk, and I'm not talking about CrossFit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Spider-Man Hulk, Fire and Brimstone No.
[SPEAKER_00]: 1 hit stores on August 19, 2026, which I'll just note is nearly five months after Easter and leave it at that.
[SPEAKER_00]: The writer and artist Jeffrey Brown is taking a stand against AI, and he has the kick starter to prove it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Per broken frontier, the best cellic creator has launched a crowdfunding campaign for climb every mountain, an argument against the use of AI and creative endeavors, which may give away the way Brown is leading on the whole thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: This one painter is being presented as a mini-comic as well as a variety of prints, as Brown goes to bad for human art.
[SPEAKER_00]: Said Brown quote, using AI to make art focuses on an end product.
[SPEAKER_00]: Whatever shortcuts you use skips over what art is really about, process of making something and how you find meaning in that process.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Kickstarter was almost immediately funded, but if you would like to pledge to support a real human artist, you could do so until June 7, 2026.
[SPEAKER_00]: For comic book club news, I'm Alex Zeldin, and maybe Marvel's midnight is their regular universe, but enroved in a rich, decadent, dark chocolate.
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