Exclusive: Writer Jed MacKay reveals what makes Blood Hunt a different kind of Marvel vampire story.
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Turns out, though, that it was also the start of something very big.
What do you got?
MacKay says of his infamous big bad.
Its like putting Santa Claus in a comic.
Everyone automatically knows what his whole deal is.
So, the next logical step was to throw a curveball and putBladein charge of the vampire marauders.
And the person leading them is none other than the slickest vamp in town.
And I think thats a lot of fun to work with.
Were seeing Pepe really just cut loose and Marte really drenching it with blood, MacKay teases.
So this is bonus stuff.
For example, at the end of issue 1, theres a scene where Blade stabs Doctor Strange.
And then, the red band edition came back with Doctor Strange cut in half.
I was like, holy moly, okay.
He gets plenty of room to work here, too.
Im very conscious of trying to keep the panel count low, MacKay laughs.
Just his illustrations of The Impossible City, the Avengers HQ in issue one.
It looks incredible, and its just Iron Man standing in a spot.
And you need that to be a complete story.
Of course, its superhero comics, so theres always an and then attached to every story.
MacKays got plans for whats next, too.
IfBlood HuntisSecret Invasion, theres quite aDark Reignplanned to come after it.
Blood Hunt #1 and 2 are on sale now.
Issue #3 is out on June 12.
Check out pages from Blood Hunt #2 below!
