WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Symbiote Spider-Man: King in Black #2 by Peter David, Greg Land, Jay Leisten, Frank D'Armata and VC's Joe Sabino, on sale now.

While Knull has succeeded in taking over the Earth in the King in Black event, the tie-in series Symbiote Spider-Man: King in Black is chronicling the effects the god of the symbiotes' attack is having on the past. In issue #1, one of Knull's creations, Mister E, took over the Ravencroft Institute and transformed everyone inside the facility into shadow creatures just like himself.

Symbiote Spider-Man: King in Black is set shortly after the 1984-1985 event Secret Wars, which means that it takes place in the distant past of the Marvel Universe, back when Spider-Man still wore the black symbiote that would one day become Venom. But as Knull's power grew in the present, it created a solar eclipse in the past.

This eclipse, it turns out, is a shocking phenomenon -- one that even the world's greatest and most popular astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson, can't explain.

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In Symbiote Spider-Man: King in Black #1, Mister E started to take control of the Ravencroft Institute when Knull's eclipse manifested in the sky. The shadow creature explained that the god of the symbiotes has the power of uncreation. Unlike its opposite, creation, which moves forward, uncreation runs backwards -- which explains how Knull is able to affect the past. As he rises in power in the present, he alters the past of the Marvel Universe, starting with a solar eclipse.

This cosmic phenomenon leaves everyone perplexed: Peter Parker, himself a brilliant scientist, has no idea how to explain the eclipse -- and neither does the Daily Bugle's science editor, who just so happens to be Neil deGrasse Tyson.

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As Spider-Man and the Black Knight head off to battle Mister E, Symbiote Spider-Man: King in Black #2 takes us to the Daily Bugle headquarters, where we naturally find J. Jonah Jameson fuming. He's hoping to cover news on the eclipse, but his science editor has no idea how an unplanned eclipse could just manifest without any sort of warning. Jameson, ever the unreasonable boss that he is, can't accept this, and he ends up firing Neil from the position (without even being able to pronounce his name accurately).

We don't see deGrasse Tyson himself in the issue, but Jameson's tirade is all we need to know that, in his young days, the Marvel Universe's version of the astrophysicist started his career as the science editor of the Daily Bugle. He might have even worked alongside Peter Parker, on a few occasions. Thankfully, deGrasse Tyson was fired from this position, freeing him from the Bugle and allowing him to become the world's most famous astrophysicist.

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