Blood Hunt Sees Darkforce Characters Turn Off The Sun For The Vampires

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Marvel’s first take a look at Blood Hunt #1 by Jed MacKay and Pepe Larraz revealed what is going on on in Marvel’s upcoming summer season occasion.

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Marvel’s Blood Hunt occasion includes vampires utilizing Darkforce to eclipse the solar.

Jed MacKay and Tom Brevoort reveal Blood Hunt’s lasting impression on the Marvel Universe.

Blood Hunt’s Red Band editions boast unique content material and high-stakes heroics.

The saga connects to Moon Knight and different Marvel storylines, escalating vampire lore.

Marvel’s first take a look at Blood Hunt #1 by Jed MacKay and Pepe Larraz revealed what is going on on in Marvel’s upcoming summer season occasion to retailers at a digital Blood Hunt Retailer Conference.

Writer and occasion architect Jed MacKay and Marvel Comics SVP & Executive Editor Tom Brevoort laid out the complete scope of the saga, puffed up what he promised was a long-lasting impression it should have on the Marvel Universe, and answered retailer questions. Hosted by Ryan Penagos, VP & Creative Executive at Marvel, attendees additionally received an unique take a look at the blood and gore that awaits readers in Blood Hunt‘s particular parental advisory Red Band editions together with cowl debuts of upcoming Blood Hunt tie-in points.

The occasion kicks off when varied vampire factions, united for the primary time in millennia, engineer a worldwide assault utilizing Darkforce vitality to dam out the solar. And the moon for that matter.

Having lurked within the shadows of the Marvel Universe since its very starting, vampires at the moment are unleashed on humanity as heroes and villains alike fall prey to their overwhelming bloodlust. Because sure, they’re killing off folks with out Krakoa to revive them, therefore the road “who will bite it?” to advertise

Marvel Comics guarantees that Blood Hunt has been seeded in Marvel tales for many years, however that latest examples embody MacKay’s present run on Moon Knight, latest problems with Miles Morales: Spider-Man, final 12 months’s Bloodline: The Daughter Of Blade restricted sequence, and extra. Time to go digging…

“As we’ve seen in Moon Knight, I keep chucking vampires in!” MacKay instructed retailers and that Blood Hunt “is a logical extension of that. I started gathering ideas and figuring out what we want to do from there, and a lot is keyed in from the work we’re doing on Moon Knight, and Doctor Strange is a natural vector into that. If there’s an Earth-shaking event, the Avengers will be the first on the scene.”

“This just seemed like a natural rise of all of these vampire threads that we could pull together and weave into an interesting tapestry. This would cover the full spectrum of the Marvel Universe in a justifiable event that doesn’t come out of nowhere,” Brevoort stated.

On the Red Band Editions, , MacKay promised that they “aren’t just happening to background characters. We’re also seeing our heroes being impacted in a much more violent way.” “The best page for the Red Band edition in issue #1 is the last page of the book,” Brevoort added. “We can’t reveal it since it gives away too much of the plot, but you’ll know it when you get there.”

I assume that is Bleeding Cool’s job, proper? Here are these variant covers…

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