Midnight Sons: Blood Hunt (2024) # 3

Cover Date: September 2024; Publication Date: July 2024

Writer: Bryan Hill; Artist: German Peralta; Letterer: VC's Cory Petit; Colorist: Arthur Hesli; Editor: Will Moss; Editor in Chief: C.B. Cebulski; Cover Artist: Ken Lashley

At the haunted hospital in Chicago, Dan Ketch has a conversation with Tulip about Blade, pointing out that he could have stayed to try and kill her, but he didn't. Dan transforms into Ghost Rider, telling Tulip that they have a more pressing mission, and that Blade will have to wait until it is completed. Meanwhile, John Blaze and Victoria Montesi talk with the nurse they rescued, Julie, and explain that another reality is trying to invade through the hospital. Victoria convinces Julie to help by giving them her fears to use in a spell.

Deciding to trust them, Julie leads them to them incinerator room. Victoria instructs Julie to recall her greatest fear in vivid detail, which the invading entity will latch on to and manifest as her nightmare, allowing the Midnight Sons the opportunity to kill it. Julie recounts a story from a Halloween several years before when a college kid was killed in a fire and she imagined his corpse sitting up in the morgue. Montesi casts her spell and a grotesque creature comes to life inside the morgue. The Midnight Sons allow Julie to act as bait, and when the creature stalks toward her Blaze downs it with his hellfire shotgun. Victoria casts a banishment spell that turns the creature into maggots, which she then instructs Ghost Rider to cleanse with his hellfire chain. Recognizing that the hospital is now free from the evil spirits that had been haunting, the three Midnight Sons notice that Tulip has already left them, deciding to hunt down Blade alone.

Later, weeks after the defeat of Varnae, the vampire lord who had possessed Blade, Tulip tracks Blade down to a monastery in Thailand. Convinced that Blade is himself again, Tulip tells him that Ghost Rider, Blaze, and Montesi gave up on tracking him down and have gone their separate ways once again. When Tulip asks Blade if he really would have killed her, he can only reply that he wished he knew. 

Midnight Sons: Blood Hunt (2024) # 2

Cover Date: August 2024; Publication Date: June 2024

Writer: Bryan Hill; Artist: German Peralta; Letterer: VC's Cory Petit; Colorist: Arthur Hesli; Editor: Will Moss; Editor in Chief: C.B. Cebulski; Cover Artist: Ken Lashley

Victoria Montesi has a nightmare vision of a hospital in Chicago being engulfed in a wave of blood.  She wakes up in her cot at an airbase in Iraq, where she she and the other Midnight Sons have been making their plans to fight back against Blade. Vicki talks with Johnny Blaze and tells him that they need to go to Chicago before they deal with Blade, and Blaze admits that he had a similar nightmare about the hospital. Danny Ketch and Tulip then say that they each also had nightmares about the hospital, which forces them to conclude that they need to investigate. 

Later, at the hospital in Chicago, a nurse is attacked by a vampire. Ghost Rider arrives and intervenes, dragging the vampire out of the building behind his motorcycle. The nurse is comforted by the rest of the Midnight Sons while Ghost Rider destroys the vampire with his Penance Stare. The nurse tells them that strange things have been happening at the hospital for some time, but before she can explain they are attacked by Blade, who crashes through a window. Blaze uses his hellfire shotgun, which forces Blade to transform into a group of bats that fly out of the hospital. Vicki deduces that what they just witnessed wasn't actually Blade, but instead was a distraction to get them to leave the hospital. Using a knife, Vicki cuts her hand and bleeds onto the floor, revealing a large pentagram that she says is a doorway to Hell that they have to close.

Midnight Sons: Blood Hunt (2024) # 1

Cover Date: July 2024; Publication Date: May 2024

Writer: Bryan Hill; Artist: German Peralta; Letterer: VC's Cory Petit; Colorist: Arthur Hesli; Editor: Will Moss; Editor in Chief: C.B. Cebulski; Cover Artist: Ken Lashley

Blade the vampire hunter meets at a diner with a squad of soldiers that he had previously trained to kill vampires, having called for them to meet for an important mission. Blade then turns on the soldiers and quickly murders them all. Afterwards, he sheds a tear. 

Later, in Arizona, after the vampires have blacked out the sun and attacked the world under Blade's leadership, Danny Ketch is approached by Blade's former partner Tulip. She explains the situation with Blade and that she needs the Ghost Rider's help to determine if her former friend has truly turned evil or is under the control of someone else. In order to determine Tulip's trustworthiness, Danny transforms into the Ghost Rider and gives her the Penance Stare.  Tulip wakes up hours later to find Johnny Blaze at her bedside, and he explains that he is no longer a Ghost Rider and only has a shotgun that shoots hellfire.  Blaze tells Tulip that he and Danny will help her find Blade, and she states the made a promise to kill Blade if he ever went to the dark side, a promise she intends to keep.  Tulip goes outside and finds Danny, who tells her that if she wants help she will have to help them in turn, and reveals a hidden cache of guns.

On a deserted road in the middle of the desert, Tulip and Blaze attack a vampire convoy protecting an armored car, which was transporting a creature captured from the Darkforce Dimension. The creature attempts to break free and the Ghost Rider destroys it by driving straight through the armored car. Meanwhile, in Iraq, Victoria Montesi arrives at a cave where a holy man has been possessed by a vampiric spirit. Montesi casts a spell to summon Lilith, the Mother of Demons, who exorcises the vampire from the man's body.  Later, Victoria is visited by Johnny Blaze, who wishes to recruit her help in finding Blade.  She replies that she had a vision of what has happened, and if Blade has truly become evil then the Midnight Sons will kill him.

War of the Realms Strikeforce: The Dark Elf Realm # 1

Cover Date: July 2019; Publication Date: May 2019

Writer: Bryan Hill; Artist: Leinil Francis Yu; Inker: Gary Alanguilan; Letterer: VC's Joe Sabino; Colorist: Matt Hollingsworth; Editor: Will Moss; Associate Editor: Sarah Brunstad; Executive Editor: Tom Brevoort; Editor-in-Chief: C.B. Cebulski; Cover Artist: Leinil Francis Yu

At Avengers Mountain, Thor's mother Freya meets with the Punisher to discuss a mission and the agents needed to carry it through.  Castle handpicks She-Hulk, Ghost Rider, and Blade and assembles them in a meeting room to listen to Freya.  She tells them that Malekith has his own Black Bifrost Bridge in the Dark Elf realm of Svartalfheim that must be destroyed.  The heroes all agree to join her, but she tells them that first they must be tested.  Using Asgardian magic Freya forces each of them to confront their greatest fear: for She-Hulk it is her cousin the Hulk and for Blade it is himself as a future lord of the vampires.  Robbie Reyes faces Johnny Blaze, who calls him an imposter. The Avengers fight through the magic and attack Freya to prove their worth. She stops the magic challenge and cinsukts with Punisher to plan their attack on the Black Bifrost. Much later in Svartalfeim, Freya decides to make a last stand to defend the Black Bifrost, as it is now the only way to cross between the Nine Realms.