AN ALL-NEW, ALL-DISTURBING UNIVERSE BEGINS HERE!
The clock strikes midnight, and it's the dark dawn of a new era. The shadows of New York City are stalked by vampires and the mutant empyres. The sword of Damocles hangs over the peace between these two species and the factions within them. An outright war is brewing and the unturned will be caught in the crossfire. Blockbuster comic book writer Jonathan Hickman returns to the X-Men with a hunger for blood as this new world of terror reimagines the heroes of the Marvel Universe!
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To commemorate this dark and unpredictable universe, the Midnight writers dissected each series’ first issue with Marvel.com, spilling secrets about their reimagined heroes and villains. Read on to find out what’s in store for the Midnight Universe.
Threats, both human and other, stalk the Midnight Universe. The only thing more dangerous than vampires? Mutant vampires, otherwise known as Empyres. As a tenuous peace holds between these rival factions, the X-Men hunger for blood, while the unturned do what they can to survive.
MARVEL.COM: MIDNIGHT X-MEN introduces mutant vampires. How did you decide which X-Men to transform into bloodthirsty mutants?
HICKMAN: My favorite thing about starting this story in media res is that we get to have a book that takes place in the past and in the present as it moves into the future. It's really about combining several mythologies into one story. While in the first issue we met several characters who are vampires and several who are not, it doesn't mean that we're not going to eventually see their story from the other side.
I suppose the most obvious question is Storm, but there we're winking at previous X-Men lore before taking things in a wild new direction.
MARVEL.COM: “The peace must hold” is a compact mentioned throughout the first issue of MIDNIGHT X-MEN. What can you tease about the past conflict between mankind, mutants, and vampires?
HICKMAN: Very little except to say that it's kind of like the Cuban Missile Crisis of Midnight X-Men. It was the day the world almost ended, then cooler heads prevailed and we got the long night of the Cold War.
MARVEL.COM: With characters like Nightcrawler and William Stryker taking on official roles within the church, how would you describe the institution’s role in this story?
HICKMAN: People pray for god to save them because they're usually not in the position to save themselves. There's something like that going on here.
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