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''[['''Midnight Nation]]''''' is a religious-themed twelve-issue American comic book limited series, created by [[J. Michael Straczynski]] (he of ''[[Babylon 5]]'' fame) and published from 2000 to 2002 by [[Top Cow]] Productions under their now defunct Joe's Comics imprint. It is about a man who is killed, in a sense, and is on a journey to save his soul.
 
Detective David Grey is a dedicated, workaholic member of the LAPD. He's often successful too, in part because of the fact that he has practically nothing else in his life besides police work, in part because he's one of the few members of the force that actually cares about what's going on, even if the victim he is investigating is black, a drug dealer, or whatever. On his latest case he gets some mysterious hints that the case is more than it appears to be, and that the victim, Toby, was killed by some mystery faction that spooks even the veteran street criminals.
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* [[Good Eyes, Evil Eyes]]: Most of the good guys have [[Blue Eyes]]. Bad guys get very evil eyes, for example instead of having whites, the Walkers have a gold background and [[Black Eyes]], while Satan has [[Black Eyes of Evil]].
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|David.}} But not the way you expect.
* [[Humans Are Bastardsthe Real Monsters]]: At one point David tries to blame the Walkers for everything that is wrong with human life. Laurel calmly replies that no, all they do is speed the process up.
* [[Hurricane of Puns]]: David is horrified to realize that the murdered informant's body parts have been scattered all over his house in order to create this. For example, an arm stuck on a chair, (armchair) a head stuck in the refrigerator (head cold) etc.
* [[I Am a Humanitarian]]: The Walkers. Children are the most nutritious for them.