Writer: Various
Artist: Various
First published: 2024 (tpb)
Contains spoilers
The blurb: As the massive event BLOOD HUNT kicks into high gear, this collection of miniseries takes a deep dive into how its repercussions affect every corner of the Marvel Universe! The vampire onslaught of BLOOD HUNT reaches across the Marvel Universe - from Wakanda to New Orleans and beyond! Spinning directly out of events in the main series, the Black Panther finds himself transformed into a bloodsucker - and tasked with carrying out a key mission for the vampire overlord! But even a dark transformation won't keep T'Challa from his duties to Wakanda - for better or worse. At the school of magic known as Strange Academy, Doyle Dormammu, Shaylee, Toth, Zoe and German get embroiled in an adventure that will take them around the world - and right into the center of the BLOOD HUNT action! Plus: What happens when vampires face an enemy with gamma-irradiated blood? Find out, together with the Incredible Hulk! Collecting: Black Panther: Blood Hunt (2024) 1-3, Strange Academy: Blood Hunt (2024) 1-3, Hulk: Blood Hunt (2024) 1
The review: This is one of the primary Blood Hunt volumes. From the first Blood Hunt we knew that Blade had turned Black Panther. This contains the details of that story as Black Panther looks to protect Wakanda, whilst forced to do Blade’s bidding. The volume also includes how Varnae, the vampiric spirit possessing Blade, fell in the first place and how the actions of the Gods influenced that. It was interesting that Black Panther meets Adzi, the mother of pestilence as the adzi is an African vampire type.
The Blood Hunt also impacts the Strange Academy – especially Pia, whose own secret (she is a vampire with a mystically bestowed ability to withstand sunlight) becomes an issue when the kids from the Academy go off in search of the Darkhold.
The final story is a Hulk one, with Bruce Banner and the tale of a group of vampires (who have been feeding on immigrants for years) set free by sundeath and attacking Banner in a derelict movie set after he is distracted by their reluctant Renfield.
A solid volume – all vampire facing. 8 out of 10.
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