The Midnight Sons will rise once more as a part of Marvel’s vampire-infused summer crossover series, Blood Hunt.
Midnight Sons: Blood Hunt by writer Bryan Hill and artist Germán Peralta will bring together Blade, Johnny Blaze, Danny Ketch and more to not only battle vampires, but also “tragically spill the blood of one of their own.”
“FINALLY, the world realizes I’m a ‘horror guy’ and I’m grateful,” Hill said. “Working with Blade has been a blast, and what I’m doing with Midnight Sons is maybe even more ferocious than that. This event is really exciting, the hype is real, and what I have planned for this will hopefully satisfy fans of action… and terror.”
The Midnight Sons first came together back in the early 1990s, as Marvel launched several supernatural titles to sit alongside the already mega-popular Ghost Rider title featuring Danny Ketch. Titles like Morbius and Nightstalkers featured members of “The Nine,” who together were referred to as the Midnight Sons. They included Blade, Morbius, Danny Ketch, Johnny Blaze, Frank Drake, Hannibal King, Vicki Montesi, Louise Hastings and Sam Buchanan.
The name has been used several times since then, and not always with that same group of characters. Other versions were featured in titles like Marvel Zombies and Spirits of Vengeance. There’s also a video game titled Midnight Suns that had a comic book tie-in featuring Blade, Kushala the Spirit Rider, Magik, Wolverine and Nico Minoru.
But this new title sounds like it’ll be bringing back that original line-up:
The return of the Midnight Sons! What do you get when you cross two Ghost Riders, a daywalker, their supernatural-hunting friends, and a horde of vampires swarming the Earth? A whole lot of fangs, fire and penance… Don’t miss the original Midnight Sons reunite to deal with the shocking threat unleashed in BLOOD HUNT!
“I’m really excited to be part of this crossover, especially because I love the mix between super heroes and horror—the possibilities are infinite,” Peralta said. “In this particular case, I have the chance to draw the coolest Marvel characters, it’s one of the highlights of this project—Blade, Ghost Rider, and of course, a lot more that I can’t mention! It’s always a pleasure to be in front of a new challenge when you’re free to play using inks and different kinds of textures to create some dark environments and characters. I hope the readers enjoy this as much as I do.”
The first issue comes out May 29.