An unexpected outbreak of Morbin' time!

I hesitate to mention it, in case it was somehow in error and would be corrected; but I had more than two Battlegrounds matches for Contest of Champions recently where Morbius just wrecked Doctor Doom! I think every so often updates happen for game balance, but Morby might've lucked out on that one. Also, I saw his movie in the five-dollar bin at Wal-Mart, and damn near hadda call my son to make sure I already had it; and we've got a recent dollar book with him, so everything's coming up Morbius! From 2024, the Amazing Spider-Man: Blood Hunt #3, written by Justina Ireland, pencils by Marcelo Ferreira and Chris Campana, inks by Roberto Poggi and Craig Yeung.

The cover makes it look like something bad is going to happen to ol' Morby, but not like that: in the middle of the unending night of the Blood Hunt crossover, a corporation has been turning people into vampires, so it can profit of the cure Morbius was creating. With Colleen Wing vampirized, it's up to Spidey, Misty Knight, and the Lizard to bust into a building full of vampires for the cure. (The corporation, Hemoglobin Inc., seemed like it was going to water down said cure, or dole in out in same fashion that victims would have to keep paying for treatment; which is unfortunately realistic.)

Morbius does have a cure, but is also sick of never having funding, proper equipment, a lab that wasn't in the sewers, etc. He's also mad that while he can cure Hemoglobin Inc's newly-created vamps, he still can't cure himself or other kinds of vampirism. Spidey's like, sucks, but still kinda impressive? And Morbius does move to save the cure when a Lizard/vampire fight endangers it, since he doesn't want anyone to have to be like him. Maxine Danger of the Beyond Corporation swoops in at the end, to ruin the Hemoglobin CEO's day: he used to be her assistant, and had signed non-competes! He's seemingly dragged back to work at Beyond (literally dragged, in a vampire-proof silver net!) while Maxine gives Morbius the use of the lab and facilities. (With the Lizard as like his lab partner? He doesn't really say anything in this one, so I'm not sure what he's up to.) But while a lot of people are cured, including Colleen, this really didn't have anything to do with the bigger endless night thing; it was just a shady businessman trying to take advantage: disaster capitalism again. Although, I hate to admit it, the people that were turned into fake vampires were probably saved from being turned into real vampires; I don't know if any of the latter were cured, and I read Blood Hunt. It was one of those Marvel events that feels not like it ends, but it just...stops? Because there was another event already coming, the big Doom one, that I haven't touched at all.