Author: Erica Schultz
Illustrator: Robert Gill
First Published: 2025 (tpb)
Contains spoilers
The Blurb: Spinning out of the blockbuster event BLOOD HUNT, a new team rises to fight the vampire threat! Dagger! Elsa Bloodstone! White Widow! Hallows' Eve! Together, they're taking to the streets to clean up the aftermath of BLOOD HUNT - namely, hunting down the remaining vampires who threaten to spill innocent blood! And their targets include the deadly super vamps of the Bloodcoven! But when Miles Morales, A.K.A. Spider-Man, gets caught in the crosshairs... need we say it?! There will be blood! Because as far as Elsa is concerned, all vampires deserve to be dusted. But her new teammates disagree - violently! Collecting: Blood Hunters (2024) 1-5
The review: Coming after the events of the Blood Hunt we met the prototype of the Blood Hunter team up during the event in the form of Blood Hunters: Once More into Darkness where the team played a small part in the whole volume. In this volume they are the sole focus (plus Miles Morales' Spider-Man, though he is interacting with them) and they are hunting down vampires still active after the event.
All is not harmonious, however. Dagger has discovered that she can cure vampirism through her powers and wants vampires captured so she can save them. Elsa Bloodstone, however, has no such desire and simply wants to kill vampires, arguing that Dagger’s powers are sporadic and turning the vampire back is not guaranteed. There is a further wrinkle when one cured person is resentful and liked being a vampire.
Unfortunately, they hit the radar of the Bloodcoven, all high-powered vampires who, at the start of the Blood Hunt event were the force who managed to take down the Avengers, incapacitating several heroes. They have become enamoured of super-hero blood, and the powers it contains, and this street level team look ripe for taking…
This is primarily a combat orientated comic. There is some moral ambiguity – cure or kill, do vampires want a cure, and can vampires (Spider-Man) be good – and a thread of inter-team bickering, but it is mostly action. It is, of course, nice to see some level of aftermath following the event. 7 out of 10.
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