Writer: Cody Ziglar and Danny Lore (Night Shift section)
Artist: Various
First published: 2025 (tpb)
Contains spoilers
The Blurb: Collects Miles Morales: Spider-Man (2022) #21-24 and #26 and material from #25 and Annual (2024) #1.
BLOOD HUNT transforms Miles Morales' world! Endless hordes of bloodsucking vampires ravage Earth beneath the pitch-black skies of the planet's last night! Vampire-slayer Blade has a plan, and his only hope for victory rests with Miles Morales! But Blade's mission comes with a cost - one Spider-Man may be unwilling to pay. And Miles' biggest ally is about to become his worst nightmare! With uncanny new abilities, Miles faces a desperate battle to find an answer to his latest problem - with his family at greater risk than ever before! But when the Vulture swoops in just as Miles is at his most desperate, the one to suffer may just be the person they both love! Plus: A family vacation to Puerto Rico introduces Miles to relatives with huge secrets!
The review: A graphic from the Blood Hunt event this was a strange one, in that the opening story – with the team up against energy vampire R'ym'r and flashbacks to Spider-Man being turned by Blade have already been added into the Amazing Spider-Man graphic novel and therefore are superfluous and a double up. Then there is a short from the Annual (2024), Night Shift, that adds very little. The final line of the blurb about a family vacation is not accurate to this graphic either and seems to have been accidentally tagged onto the blurb.
All that is disappointing, however the lion share of this is following vampire Spider-Man trying to come to terms with the vampirism, being held in check (sort of) by Morales’ venom power, and despite himself becoming more violent. He visits girlfriend Tiana Toomes, aka Sparrow, at exactly the wrong time as she is visited by her estranged Grandfather, Vulture, who blames Spider-Man for their rift. This leads to a battle, with Spider-Man barely able to maintain control, and then a visit from T'Challa (Black Panther) – who managed to purge himself of vampirism – and a whole new suit (with vibranium weave and vibranium laced webbing). Of course Vulture was down but not out.
This second part was cracking, exploring power and responsibility in a different way but, of course, that is a main plank of the Spider-Man premise. It was also great as it is firmly post-event but showing an ongoing impact (on Morales). The story doesn’t end here as Morales and T’Challa must travel to Wakanda to try and cure the vampirism. However, as much as I enjoyed the latter part of the graphic, and it buoys the score, the lazy repeat at the beginning doesn’t go unnoticed. 6 out of 10.
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