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Benjamin Percy and Phillip Kennedy Johnson discuss their roles in creating Marvel's Midnight Universe.

Marvel’s Midnight Universe is getting ready to open its doors, and this week we’re going straight to two of the writers helping build it. Benjamin Percy and Phillip Kennedy Johnson join the AIPT Comics Podcast for an extended conversation about Midnight Fantastic Four and Midnight Spider-Man, two of the three series launching Marvel’s new horror-infused universe on October 7. Along with Jonathan Hickman on Midnight X-Men, Percy and Johnson are helping to establish a world in which familiar Marvel characters are being rebuilt through body horror, cosmic terror, and some seriously disturbing new origins. Percy digs into the Lovecraftian nightmare behind his Fantastic Four, why their familiar powers are closer to curses, the influence of California's strange scientific and occult history, and just how grotesque Reed Richards' elasticity can become. Johnson takes us inside his radically different Peter Parker, the role Oscorp plays in his transformation, ScieTronc's horrifying designs, and why calling this version of Peter "Man-Spider" barely scratches the surface. The conversation also gets into the larger Midnight Universe, including how Percy, Johnson, and Hickman are coordinating…

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Host: AIPT

Guests: Benjamin Percy, Phillip Kennedy Johnson

Topics covered

• Marvel Comics
• Midnight Universe
• body horror
• cosmic terror
• character transformation

Keywords

• Marvel
• Midnight Universe
• body horror
• Fantastic Four
• Spider-Man
• character origins
• Jonathan Hickman

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Oscorp, ScieTronc

Books & works: Midnight Fantastic Four, Midnight Spider-Man, Midnight X-Men

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