[SPEAKER_00]: Marvel's Midnight lineup reveal, and YC Street becomes Jack Kirby Way.
[SPEAKER_00]: Casanova gets a compendium from image.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is comic book club news for May 13, 2026.
[SPEAKER_00]: Last week, Marvel teased their new publishing line midnight and while speculation focused on Midnight Suns characters, not so.
[SPEAKER_00]: Instead, the new titles of the Midnight Universe will be Midnight X-Men Midnight Fantastic Four and Midnight Spider-Man.
[SPEAKER_00]: All set in a new universe with its own continuity and lore where anything could happen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Three books will feature Jonathan Hickman and Mateo Delafonte on Midnight X-Men, measurement Percy Gavlacher on Midnight Fantastic Four, and Philip Kennedy Johnson and Skye Trunk on
[SPEAKER_00]: So what are they about?
[SPEAKER_00]: Midnight X-Men focuses on a war between the vampire and mutant empires with the unturned caught in the crossfire.
[SPEAKER_00]: Midnight Fatastic Formal Channel Cosmic Horror in a tale of an obsessive scientist who discover secrets about the universe that leaves him and three others warped in strange and horrifying ways.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Midnight Spider-Man fights Peter Parker transformed into a hideous spider-hybrid thanks to Oscorp's pursuit of eternal life followed by them creating more hideous human animal
[SPEAKER_00]: Marvel teasers that more titles are coming in the line, but it all kick off with Midnight X-Men No.
[SPEAKER_00]: 1 on August 5, followed by Midnight Fantastic 4 No.
[SPEAKER_00]: 1 in September and Midnight Spider-Man No.
[SPEAKER_00]: 1 in October.
[SPEAKER_00]: In the event, along time, coming the quarter of Essex Street and Delancy Street in the Lower East Side of New York City has been renamed Jack Kirby Way.
[SPEAKER_00]: In a ceremony held on Monday, May 11th, or the Daily News, the event was intended by the grandchildren of the co-creator of Captain America, Iron Man, Black Panther Thor, and more, as well as City Council members and fans in costume.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fellow legend Jim Stranko also spoke at the event, which will officially and permanently co-name the street quarter.
[SPEAKER_00]: After a brief one-day renaming occurred last year as a promotional stunt for Marvel Studios fantastic four-first steps.
[SPEAKER_00]: Kirby is intrinsically tied to the Lower East Side of New York City where he grew up in the things the Anciest Street is heavily inspired by Delanciest Street.
[SPEAKER_00]: Tying into the street name revealed that nearby American Jewish historical society is holding an exhibit titled The Jack Kirby Way, how a boy from the Lower East side became the king of comics.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you're in New York and want to check out the street sign, it's right on the corner by a massive two-story toll McDonald's, just the way Jack Kirby would have wanted.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hot on the heels, a big Hollywood news for Matt Fraction and chipset R skis beloved series Sex Criminals, that would be image inputs and John Rettles taking the leads of the prime video series with the indecosta directed the first two episodes, another beloved fraction book is getting a bump from image comics.
[SPEAKER_00]: Casanova, with Art by Fabio Moon and Gabriel Bach, will get a massive compedium paperback.
[SPEAKER_00]: Collecting the first four story arcs in the series, the train focuses on Casanova quit a man who is quote ripped out of space time, betrays everyone he ever loved, and destroys whole worlds in his wake, but it's okay, everything's going to be okay, Casanova, destroying
[SPEAKER_00]: multi-versus before destroying multi-versus was cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: Gassadova, compedium, hit stores on June 24.
[SPEAKER_00]: For comic book club news, I'm Alex Albin.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we're just getting worried about this, but it seems like Stan Leeway has taken credit for Jack Kirbyway, more on this as it develops.
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