Premise Since the suicide of Kraven the Hunter , his wife Sasha has been plotting his resurrection. Tweet Clean. Cancel Update. What size image should we insert? This will not affect the original upload Small Medium How do you want the image positioned around text? Float Left Float Right. Cancel Insert. Go to Link Unlink Change. For a comic that had no reason to exist, it was a lot better than it had any right to be in my opinion. Then again, I haven't read it in awhile, so maybe my opinion will change upon a reread.
However, you do make a good point that Hunted wouldn't have been necessary without Grim Hunt. KLH was him achieving some sort of villainous meaningful existential statement, then dying.
Then, when they brought him back, they wrote him so that he didn't even want to be here. Hard to make him a purposeful character at that point. I don't see why Marvel doesn't just create newer riffs on spent characters. You need a hunter-themed character? Make a new one! There are lots of "styles" of hunters in the world. It didn't need to be Kraven all over again. It wasn't telegraphed with months of buildup like Grim Hunt.
It was this dark story that seemed to come out of nowhere early on in the marriage era. Another reason KLH works so well is that the focus of the story is tight. It's about Kraven proving he's better. It's about Peter choosing to climb out of the grave. It's about Vermin the literal monster, along with scenes of Mary Jane.
There's not a lot of extraneous elements. Contrast that to both Grim Hunt and Hunted, these two stories with a large cast of characters and things happening. I remember the original Kraven's Last Hunt. It happened just as I was getting out of comics. It was more than people got another fan base for Kraven out of the 90s animated series and of course use of him in Ultimate Spider-Man.
Where basically it was: "See how people loved the character there, we have to bring them back. Plus, I remember even the writers of the animated series saying they put him in a more modern situation where Kraven was more of a victim than an obsessed hunter.
Demantis brought in the "son" of Kraven twice, even set everything up with both characters yet editorial was: "But it isn't the same. Then the idea of throwing in a daughter of Kraven and the long lost wife of Kraven.
It was like Marvel was going: "Come on, don't you want the character back? Now, it has finally been resolved and as everyone said: "Kraven the Hunter is dead, long live Kraven the Hunter. Yeah, when even Kraven himself goes on about how he should never have been brought back in Grim Hunt no less , it really makes you question why Marvel even bothered.
I agree that part of what made Kraven's Last Hunt so memorable is the fact that it really came out of nowhere and took everyone by surprise. He made a story about Deadpool standing in a room with just two people where there are absolutely no jokes absolutely compelling, and that was with early Ed McGuiness art Very good at pinup style art in those days, not so much in terms of sequential storytelling or offering different facial expressions yet So of course Grim Hunt was going to have some quality to it.
But it's really a case of making a silk purse out of a sow's ear in this regard. The problem with Grim Hunt is that it has nothing to say. Not about Spider-Man. Not about Kraven. It's just an excuse to undo a death that no one wanted undone, because the people running the books Quesada and Wacker had no clue about the series in general.
That's why, even though it's written well, it feels hollow. The climax to KLH has Spider-Man decide to be the better person, to not give into his rage and take revenge against Kraven, and to show sympathy and compassion, ultimately showing Kraven's line of thinking as the self destructive force that it actually is.
Grim Hunt just has Kraven come back, have a fight scene, and then have a magic clause in which he can't die again because Marvel isn't going to let Spider-Man kill anyone. It says nothing about the characters, and adds nothing to the original story.
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