Marvel is about to turn its heroes into monsters. What if Spider-Man actually became a spider? What if the good guys were the horror?

This week Jason, Steven, and Scott dig into the new Midnight line — Absolute Midnight X-Men, Fantastic Four, and Spider-Man from Hickman — plus the DNX mutant-virus event, the road to Amazing Spider-Man #1000, MJ as Venom, a brand-new Miles Morales, and Claremont coming back for Gambit: Wanted. Then we jump over to DC for the Batman: Bad Seeds event with Mayor Poison Ivy running Gotham, the Kingdom of Zod crossover that finally brings Superman back, Ryan North on Flash, a World’s Finest issue where the Justice League plays baseball for the soul of humanity, and two books we can’t stop talking about — Supergirl: Survive and Ram V’s Black Tower. Somewhere in the middle we go fully off the rails debating why a great Marvel writer can flop at DC (and the other way around), and whether it’s finally time to get Bendis back on a Marvel team book.

The Multiverse is your comic shop for all of it. Grab your pre-orders and back issues at multiverse.shop — the Midnight X-Men pre-order is already up. We’re also live on Whatnot three days a week running shows and building the crew, so come hang out and dig through some books with us.

Chapters: 0:00 Intro — Marvel’s Midnight Universe 0:24 Absolute Midnight X-Men, Spidey & Fantastic Four 2:50 Hickman’s horror chops & our House of X love 4:45 MJ: Face It Tiger #1 (DeMatteis) 5:10 Midnight release dates (Aug–Oct) 6:10 DNX — the mutant monster virus (Jed McKay) 8:00 Amazing Spider-Man #1000 & MJ as Venom 9:55 Felicia Hardy & Silk tangent 11:15 A new Miles Morales: Spider-Man (Brian Hill) 11:40 Thor #800 & Ewing’s Immortal Thor 12:40 Marvel’s architects, old and new 15:00 Why DC and Marvel writers aren’t interchangeable 20:00 Gambit: Wanted — Claremont’s back 20:40 Batman: Bad Seeds & Mayor Poison Ivy 21:30 Kingdom of Zod & Superman’s return 26:00 Green Lantern: Hal & Kyle 26:40 Ryan North’s Flash 28:00 World’s Finest — baseball for humanity’s soul 28:30 The Legion of Super-Heroes question 30:00 Should Bendis come back to Marvel? 36:10 Supergirl: Survive (Elseworlds) 37:30 Black Tower: The Raven Conspiracy (Ram V) 38:15 Nothing But Nightwing 39:30 Wrap-up & Whatnot shoutouts

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