Last week, Marvel Comics announced the coming of Midnight , which everyone managed to guess was going to be one of two things: either a new horror imprint from the publisher or Marvel looking over at DC’s Absolute universe and realizing it wants in on some of that. Turns out it’s a bit of a mix of both, but with one added surprise:

For the first time since the Krakoan Age , superstar writer Jonathan Hickman is leading an X-Men title again.

Announced today by Marvel , Midnight will kick off this summer and into fall with three new titles: Midnight X-Men , by Hickman and Matteo Della Fonte; Midnight Fantastic Four , by Benjamin Percy and Kev Walker; and Midnight Spider-Man, by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Scie Tronc. All three books will help launch a new universe within Marvel’s vast cosmic web of parallel realities, freeing the Midnight books to give their own spin on their characters and lore.…