X-Men: Blood Hunt - Psylocke #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis one-shot stands as the first Marvel Comics appearance of three figures from Japanese folklore adapted into the Marvel Universe: the Kuchisake-onna (Slit-Mouthed Woman), the Nure-onna, and the Gashadokuro — a significant act of world-building that expanded the Blood Hunt event beyond its American-centric main series by rooting supernatural horror in a non-Western cultural tradition. The issue also marks the first substantial spotlight on the Kwannon/John Greycrow romantic partnership in an in-continuity solo format, cementing a relationship that had been building since the Krakoan-era Hellions series. Critically, it functions as both a self-contained horror action story and a character study: Psylocke's defeat of the Kuchisake-onna — a creature whose legend is built on victimhood twisted into cruelty — mirrors Kwannon's own arc of surviving trauma and choosing a different path. That thematic doubling made it one of the more critically praised tie-in one-shots of the entire Blood Hunt line.
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The issue was written by Steve Foxe with interior art by Lynne Yoshii, colors by Ruth Redmond, and letters by VC's Ariana Maher; the standard cover was painted by Stephen Segovia with Alex Guimarães, and a variant cover was provided by Peach Momoko. Lindsey Cohick edited, with Tom Brevoort serving as 'Conductor of X' and C.B. Cebulski as Editor-in-Chief. It was one of four X-Men Blood Hunt tie-in one-shots commissioned alongside spotlights on Jubilee, Magik, and Laura Kinney/Wolverine — a deliberate editorial strategy, announced at New York Comic Con 2023, to use standalone issues to show how individual mutants navigated the global vampire apocalypse after the fall of Krakoa scattered the X-Men.
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- Released July 3, 2024 (cover-dated September 2024); published as a one-shot tie-in to Marvel's Blood Hunt crossover event.
- First Marvel Universe appearance of the Kuchisake-onna (Slit-Mouthed Woman), who dies in the issue; also the first appearances of the Nure-onna and Gashadokuro in Marvel continuity.
- Written by Steve Foxe with art by Lynne Yoshii — one of four X-Men: Blood Hunt one-shots; the others spotlighted Jubilee, Magik, and Laura Kinney/Wolverine.
- Psylocke (Kwannon) is the featured protagonist; John Greycrow (formerly Scalphunter) appears as her romantic partner and co-combatant — his role here served as a direct lead-in to his recurring presence across the 2024–2025 Psylocke ongoing series.
- The story is set in Osaka, Japan — geographically and culturally distinct from the American settings of the main Blood Hunt series — expanding the event's global scope.
- The Kwannon/Greycrow relationship depicted here began during the Krakoan-era Hellions series, where the two served together under Mister Sinister; this issue is an early post-Krakoa depiction of them as a couple.
- John Greycrow's own publication history stretches back to Uncanny X-Men #210 (1986), created by Chris Claremont, John Romita Jr., and Dan Green; his appearance here represents a significant rehabilitation arc from Marauders villain to heroic partner.
- The Marvel Database records two reprints of this issue, indicating it was subsequently collected.
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