Smoke Eater

Fresh out of 2024's Blood Hunt event — one of Marvel's most visceral Modern Age storylines — Smoke Eater burst onto the scene in Jed MacKay and Pepe Larraz's Blood Hunt: Red Band #1, immediately signaling that this is a character built for the darkest corners of the Marvel Universe. Across Blood Hunt, Blood Hunters, and the uncompromising Red Band editions, Smoke Eater keeps genuinely wild company: Bloodstorm One, Cruel, Unusual, Damascene, and even Spider-Man himself share these blood-soaked pages. Still early in their comics life with 16 appearances and a publishing window stretching toward 2026, Smoke Eater is exactly the kind of emerging figure that sharp-eyed readers will want to track from the ground floor — born in chaos, forged in one of Marvel's most talked-about recent events.