Writer: Various
Artist: Various
First published: 2024 (tpb)
Contains spoilers
The blurb: Collects X-Men: Blood Hunt - Jubilee, X-Men: Blood Hunt - Magik, X-Men: Blood Hunt - Psylocke, X-Men: Blood Hunt - Laura Kinney The Wolverine And Wolverine: Blood Hunt #1-4.
Marvel's mutants survived the FALL OF X - but now they must join the BLOOD HUNT! Your favorite X-Men face the fight of their lives against a barrage of bloodsuckers! As darkness suffuses the world, Jubilee's past as a vampire comes back to take a big bite out of her! Magik must protect her homeland when a vampire army descends on Russia, seeking to turn it into a living hell! When her vacation in Japan is ruined, Psylocke will wield her psionic blade against creatures of legend - and a foe unlike any she's ever seen! When vampires capture mutants for hellacious experiments to boost their own power, Laura Kinney has something to say about that! And if one Wolverine isn't enough, Logan is also up to his claws in fang-faced fiends - but he has one vampire on his side as they fight their way toward a shocking showdown!
The review: Another volume in Marvel’s Blood Hunt event, this one concentrating (obviously, from the title) on X-men. The first half of the volume is full of one-shots, including Jubilee (who apparently had been a vampire some time in the character’s past), Magick and Psylock. We also get a one-shot involving Laura Kinney as Wolverine and her clone Gabby – with the vampires feeding off the latter’s blood getting her healing factor (making them tough to kill, of course) – their adventure including Xarus, Dracula’s son, with his first (brief) appearance in the event.
The tour de force of the volume is the longer Wolverine (Logan) tale with him being hunted down by vampires under the control of erstwhile associate (and now vampire) Maverick. Logan is accompanied by Nightguard (the Nightguard were vampire hunters, but they had been mostly wiped out bar a member named Louise, pre-Blood Hunt, and Wolverine helped her go to the Otherworld vampire kingdom of Sevalith where she learned to control her hunger. She took the codename Nightguard to honour her fallen comrades).
This is a pretty darn action packed, fight to fight with great art and a vampire queen named Alyssa of the vampire Siren Sect – so the events take part during Blood Hunt but do not involved Blade or Varnae’s vampires, with Alyssa looking for a vampire king with which to attack Varnae at some point in the future. One interesting piece of lore placed in this is that, although Logan’s healing factor prevents vampirism, if he is injured in such a way that the factor is fighting that injury constantly, he can turn albeit temporarily. There is a plot point based around vampires not showing up on camera feeds. A great fun addition to the event, involving one of Marvel’s best characters. 8 out of 10.
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