The "bloodiest event in Marvel Comics history" gets a mature Red Band Edition with even more gore
Jan. 22, 2024Marvel says its Blood Hunt event is so bloody, it needs a separate Red Band Edition to fit in all the gore
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Marvel is billing its upcoming comic event Blood Hunt as “the bloodiest event inMarvel Comicshistory.” And to live up to that name, the publisher is actually releasing not just one, but two versions of the core Blood Hunt limited series - a regular edition, and a “mature” edition with “additional pages and more graphic art too explicit for the regular edition.”
The expanded “mature” issues of Blood Hunt will be polybagged in full on red band sleeves that will make it clear which edition is which, and prevent prying eyes from looking at the gory bits without purchasing the issues. Each of the five issues of the core Blood Hunt series will get a Red Band Edition alongside its main release.
In Blood Hunt, writer Jed MacKay and artist Pepe Larraz bring together the Avengers, Doctor Strange,Clea,Moon Knight’s brother Hunter’s Moon, Tigra, Spider-Man, Bloodline, andBladeto take on an army of vampires as they sink their fangs into the Marvel Universe.
Marvel has published mature comics before, primarily in its Max line and other previous adult imprints. But crossing that line in the mainstream Marvel Universe is unique, and the separate Red Band Editions are a totally new gimmick for Marvel Comics.
“The most appealing part of drawing Blood Hunt, apart from the chance to work with Jed for the first time (who I kept hearing the best of things from all my colleagues and fans), was the chance to go full TERROR mode in a vampire story,” Blood Hunt artist Pepe Larraz explains. “The Red Band pages are really interesting to me. They allow me to convey the dark, violent, bloody tone of this particular story, and flex new muscles that I don’t usually get to use in a super hero comic. And, I’m not going to lie, they’re so fun!”
Blood Hunt #1 goes on sale May 1, followed by a specialFree Comic Book Day Blood Hunt one-shoton May 4.
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