The students from Strange Academy will return in May courtesy of writer Daniel José Older and artist Luigi Zagaria, as they engage with the bloodthirsty undead in this summer’s Blood Hunt.
“As a huge fan of the incredible work of Skottie Young and Humberto Ramos, I was beyond honored to be able to jump into the world of Strange Academy,” Older said. “And what better way to do it than in this epic crossover event? Truly a comic writer’s dream come true. I’ve spent the past couple weeks walking around my home city of New Orleans, dreaming up thrilling adventures for these kids, and I can’t wait to watch them come to life in Luigi Zagaria’s brilliant art.”
The kids will not only face the vampire apocalypse, but also have to find the Darkhold. Summer school can really suck:
The vampire onslaught of BLOOD HUNT knows no bounds, reaching all the way down to New Orleans, Louisiana, home of the Strange Academy! Doyle Dormammu, Zoe Laveau, Shaylee Moonpeddle, Germán Aguilar, and Toth get embroiled in an adventure that will take them around the Marvel Universe and right into the center of the BLOOD HUNT action! Their mission: find the ancient Darkhold and cast the spell that will destroy all vampires. There’s just one problem… Agatha Harkness boldly transformed the Darkhold into a child in last year’s CONTEST OF CHAOS!
“I’m a big fan of Strange Academy. It attracted me immediately from the first issue and I loved the work done by Skottie Young and Humberto Ramos. I already walked through the gates of the academy last year in Midnight Suns, and the chance to create pages of something so new thrills me,” Zagaria said. “Drawing the kids’ various forms of magic, each full of color, and contrasting them with the dark tones of the story has been inspiring, and knowing that this will be part of a crossover involving the entire Marvel Universe excites me.”
This is the sixth of eight tie-in miniseries Marvel has announced for Blood Hunt, a large crossover that will include multiple miniseries, one-shots and tie-in issues in several unrevealed regular series. That’s in addition to the main series, which will come in a standard edition and a “Red Band” edition with extra gore.
Strange Academy, created by Young and Ramos in 2020, ran for 24 issues across two different series and wrapped up last year. The creators mixed the classic boarding school drama with Marvel’s magical heroes, as Doctor Strange, Doctor Voodoo, Scarlet Witch, Magik and others taught the next generation of magical heroes how to use their powers.
Strange Academy: Blood Hunt #1 arrives in stores May 8.