Marvel’s Midnight line compared to DC’s Absolute Universe
Challenge accepted, sir.
Everything in comics comes down to Marvel vs. DC eventually. DC’s Absolute line of comics has clearly been the hottest thing in comics this year. I don’t know if it’s accurate to say the new Hickman-lead Midnight line is trying to emulate the Absolute line, but they’re clearly launching this at Marvel aware of the comparison.
George Marston at Popverse has written a great piece on Midnight Spider-Man writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson’s claim that the Midnight universe makes DC's Absolute comics look pretty polite.
"The danger of big two comics is that it's a monthly periodical that just goes on forever, right? And the danger is that you just sell the same comics over and over again forever. So sometimes there has to be a big shake-up. There has to be some kind of big change to make the comics look more like the world people live in. or to change the status quo drastically," Johnson says in an interview with Cryptid Creator Corner. "And I can say, as a reader, I've never seen Marvel change the status quo more in a book than we're doing here. What we're doing here makes Ultimate and honestly Absolute too look pretty polite."
Pistols at dawn. Bring your second.