An Inside Look at Tomorrow’s (Tonight’s) Midnight Spider-Man #1 (Spoilers)

Posted in: Comics, Marvel Comics, Spider-Man | Tagged: midnight, midnight Spider-Man, Phillip Kennedy Johnson, ScieTronc

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A Better Look Inside Tomorrow’s (Tonight’s) Midnight Spider-Man #1 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and ScieTronc (Spoilers)

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A while ago I looked midnight spider men #1 for Philip Kennedy Johnson and ScieTronc from Marvel Comicsbased on revealed images and previews. I now have some updated images added to what I wrote then (with some typos corrected), some official, some…um…otherwise…before the actual post tomorrow. I also reported that “Phillip Kennedy Johnson says he simply waited until Marvel Comics Publisher Dan Buckley He took a breath, before saying that he would be writing the spider man book. He sees the original concept of spider man already entrenched in horror comics, which Marvel Comics has been telling too cleanly and dishonestly. AND Midnight Spider-Man is a Cronenberg/Carpenter/Junji Ito body horror concept, and how that affects everyone from the green goblin to Poison. But the big change goes beyond all that. The moral behind the classic spider man It is famous: “with great power comes great responsibility”, but for Midnight Spider-ManReflecting today, this is less relevant. Rather, it’s that “power creates monsters,” a lesson Peter Parker learned from his late father, Richard Parker. And that is the world in which this Peter Parker lives, a little like ours, and it may be the most comparable to the absolute batman that way. About a boy who finds power and takes on the machine, and while he may believe that power must come with responsibility, empathy, and virtue, the world simply shows him over and over again that power creates monsters. And he is the one who has to prove that it is wrong. Phillip Kennedy Johnson also rejects anyone seeing this in the form of the Marvel character. spider-manoften seen as the horror version of spider man. But this Peter Parker is no longer transforming into a spider; he’s becoming a grotesquely unique individual with the spider embedded in his chest, with more Cronenberg types of stuff to come and wearing glasses of a Japanese WWII aviator, with series artist ScieTronc’s manga-influenced style turning Peter Parker into a boy who reads manga and loves Japanese culture. “Where we found out that young Peter Parker had a kitten named Bamf.

Today I talked more about the themes in this book, but here’s how they play out in practice. Since Peter Parker, in charge of responsibility, forgot to check that Bamf was where he should be. Bamf came out.

And that was when he learned the most important lesson from his father, Richard Parker, to replace the most classic ones. Lee Lee aphorism.

“Power creates monsters.” And that includes the neighbor’s dog and your kitten that you left alone and ran away…

Poor Bamf. And it’s a lesson, it’s a memory that haunts Peter Parker… as well as the images of the spider crawling from his pet’s corpse.

These days it’s a little more united…

…blogging as Sagan Ritual. In a bunk for one. I also said “Midnight Spider-Man #1 will include blog posts from Sagan Ritual, the name Peter Parker uses to write science news exposés, often focused on Oscorp. Carl Sagan once said: “If it takes a little myth and ritual to get through a seemingly endless night, who among us cannot sympathize and understand? We long to be here for a purpose, although, despite much self-deception, none is evident. The meaning of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of the meaning of life. We long for our parents to care for us, to forgive us for our mistakes, to save us from our childhood mistakes. But the knowledge is It is much better to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. Our preferences do not count. We do not live in a privileged frame of reference. Carl Sagan was the astronomer and astrophysicist who explained the high surface temperatures of Venus as a result of the greenhouse effect, clarified the seasonal changes on Mars due to wind-blown dust, and studied the organic molecules in the Titan haze. He co-designed the Pioneer and Voyager messages intended for possible extraterrestrial searchers. He was a pioneer in astrobiology and a strong supporter of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence…

So even when he’s with his Uncle Ben…

…his only caretaker in the Midnight Universe…

You’re never far from the monsters with power, at Oscorp Industries…

And as you can see, their employees can be very seductive… like Felicia Hardy, better known as Black Cat, who works for Oscorp…

…you know, when they’re not dealing with their own dead cat situations. I wonder if this comic will come with a feline trigger warning? No cats were hurt during the making of this comic, but quite a few cat owners may have been scarred. And as for those blog posts?

It seems to be natural. Midnight Spider-Man Issue #1 is published tomorrow by Marvel Comics… or tonight at midnight at participating comic book stores.

• MIDNIGHT SPIDER-MAN #1
  Written by PHILLIP KENNEDY JOHNSON Art by SCIETRONC
  The ruthless Oscorp Corporation transforms a young man into a hideous spider hybrid in their quest for eternal life. When Oscorp begins to use the secrets revealed by his mutation to create more human-animal hybrids, he must embrace his grotesque new form to defend himself. October 7, 2026 $4.99
• MIDNIGHT SPIDER-MAN #2
  Written by PHILLIP KENNEDY JOHNSON Art by SCIETRONC
  Where is Peter Parker? A new Oscorp employee is missing. New York City teaching assistant missing. In Queens, a municipal services technician did not register his arrival this morning. And for some reason, Oscorp’s defense contractors are scanning their building’s security tapes… looking for a spider. Where is Peter Parker? November 18, 2026 $4.99
• MIDNIGHT SPIDER-MAN #3
  Written by PHILLIP KENNEDY JOHNSON Art by SCIETRONC
  THE PARKER INCIDENT! As Peter Parker frantically searches for a way to regain his humanity, Oscorp hunts the emerging urban legend THE SPIDER-MAN in its first breakthrough on the path to a post-mortality future. Meanwhile, in Oscorp’s deepest, top-secret laboratories, Doctor Octavius ​​has used the lessons of the “Parker Incident” to engineer the world’s second synthetic mutant… a living horror that will render even Spider-Man obsolete. December 16, 2026 $4.99

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