He also carries many weapons both ancestral and modern, such as knife, spear, rifle, pistol, and blowgun. He has recently been resurrected as a humanoid lion, granting him superhuman senses, strength, speed, durability and agility. He also gains sharp teeth, claws and a feral animal side, and he carries a stone hammer as a weapon. This edit will also create new pages on Comic Vine for:.
Until you earn points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Comic Vine users. This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll send you an email once approved. Grim Hunter appears in 33 issues View all. Origin Son of the original Kraven the Hunter , Vladimir Kravinoff grew up in Russia where he live the life of luxury under his father's amassed fortune, but grew without his father because he was busy going into hunts around the world.
Creation Vladimir first appeared in Spider-Man 47, in the first series. Major Story Arcs When he was still a child. Power and Abilities After drinking the Jungle Serum, Vladimir gain superhuman strength, agility, stamina, and longevity.
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Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Spider-Man: Grim Hunt. Sep 23, Jeff rated it it was ok Shelves: drama. This is grim. Dour, depressing, gloomy; everything a Spiderman story is usually not. Here you have the family of third-rate villain Kraven trying to raise him from the dead. I say, why bother? I know, like a clone in a Spiderman story is a bad thing.
A fight, a foot, a punch, a pizza dinner, Ben Franklin? It's anybody's guess. A very, bad thing. View all 10 comments. May 02, RG rated it it was ok. Losing interest in this series but I'll continue and get to Slotts run Losing interest in this series but I'll continue and get to Slotts run View 1 comment. Feb 23, Anne rated it liked it Shelves: comics , graphic-novels , random-grabs-from-library , read-in It's a serious Spider-Man story.
You know, the kind without any jokes. Blasphemy, I say! Ok, it's not the worst thing I've read, but it just doesn't have a very Spidey feel to it. Part of the reason for that is because Spider-Man isn't really in this very much. It's mostly a story about Kraven, and by extension, his wacky family. Even Kaine one of Peter's manymanymany clones gets more page time than Parker.
In fact, if you're in the mood for a Kaine and Kraven story However, if you're looking for something that's not dark and depressing? Keep looking. The plot sounds something like this: Kraven's dead. His bat-shit crazy wife is determined to bring him back with Spyder -blood voodoo. Or something along those lines. At any rate, Sssssssspyders must die! So the Krazy Kravens start targeting anyone who wears the Spider mantle. As a fun side note, it appears that one of the Kraven Klan is a werewolf!
In the backdrop, Madam Web kind of narrates the story in her wishy-washy rambling way. If the WEB is cut He doesn't know If only they could see Ok, old lady. Either tell us what's going on or shut up! Lots of Spider-people have dramatic moments, Kraven tells his backstory, Kaine entertains us with the first time he met Kraven, and sandwiched in there are a few scenes with Peter.
There's a death, a Kraven family feud, and more Madam Jabberweb. Don't worry, folks! It all works out in the end. Sort of. Should you read this? Well, how the hell should I know that?! View all 12 comments. Dec 19, Wing Kee rated it liked it. For all the build up World: The art is okay, it is very of it's times and it is what it is.
The world building here is okay, as it pulls on a lot of the magic spider stuff from before which I enjoyed. I liked the call back to Kraven and the pieces that were used.
I do wish the scope of the Spiders could be bigger but oh well. Story: It was okay, nothing really special. For the build up this was rather ho hum and nothing all that special. Sure there were spiders a plenty but u felt it was For all the build up Sure there were spiders a plenty but u felt it was not enough.
Also the Kaine story that went along with it was also rather boring. I will say that for something like this there is little consequence of note and the end just brings back an old character instead of the huge fight we would have expected. Characters: Peter is Peter, the rest of thr spiders were fun and interesting, wish there was more time for them.
The Kravinov was rather ho hum and one dimensional. It was a forgettable event that should have had bigger fallout and stakes then what we got. Onward to the next book! Jan 08, Dan rated it liked it. Really torn for a rating on this So I guess I will give this a solid 3 stars. Worth at least picking it up and checking it out. Mar 25, Timothy rated it liked it Shelves: graphic-novel-comic.
I've been a big Spider-Man fan ever since I was a kid. The "Spider-Man: The Gauntlet" series tells the stories about Spider-Man's fights with old and new foes, orchestrated by the Kravinoff family in an attempt to soften Spidey up for "The Grim Hunt" Compiled in a separate volume.
The first, "The Sting", involves Spidey following a man he believes to be his rommate's Michelle new boyfriend to a meeting of shady characters. It turns out that this is a meeting of thugs vying for the right to wear the costume of the original Scorpion.
The party is crashed by a new, female version of The Scorpion who also wants the costume for reasons of her own. The story was rather tame and uninteresting. The main villain, "The Hood", didn't seem all that powerful or interesting, and Spidey didn't seem to have much to do.
The art in this one was also sub-par. I'm sure they were trying for some kind of "gritty" vibe with it, but it just came across as unfinished and unpolished. Fortunately, the art in the rest of the book was much better.
The second story arc, "Something Can Stop the Juggernaut", finds Spidey fighting on the side of the Juggernaut, for a change, to help save him from a new incarnation of Captain Universe. This is a nice return to some of the straight-forward, old-style Spidey stories. There's jokes, action, spectacular fights, and a nice little twist involving Juggernaut and the powers of Captain Universe. Perhaps the best part was how it was, basically, a continuation of the story from the very first time Spidey and Juggernaut tangled.
The third story was a bit of a puzzle. Basically, Peter Parker is on his way to interview for a job when he runs across Crusher Creel, The Absorbing Man, tearing up the street. Of course, he has to change into Spidey to stop the mayhem, thereby losing out on the potential job. It almost seems like they dropped it in as a bit of a comic interlude. The fourth, and final, story arc is a reprinting of the original, two story first battle between Spidey and Juggernaut started in "Nothing Can Stop the Juggernaut".
My biggest complaint with this was that they put it in the wrong place. If they're going to do "Something Can Stop the Juggernaut" as a continuation of this one, why not put it first? I've had this complaint with other Spider-Man compilations, where they tell the story of what happened after before they tell the story of what happened before.
All in all, a pretty fun little trip through Spidey-land with some good artwork. If you're a Spider-Man fan who hasn't had a chance to check this series out, I would definitely suggest you give it a look-see. If you're new to the Spider-Man universe, you might want to start somewhere else and build up to this one.
One word of warning, though. If you're going to read "The Gauntlet" series, start with vol. There are things that happen in the earlier volumes that are referenced here such as why Peter Parker is going out on job interviews , so you might be confused if you didn't start at the beginning. Despite being initially dubious, I've been quietly pleased with the recent Gauntlet storyline. If you haven't read the preceding 5 volumes, don't be too concerned as they really don't add much.
Though billed as a collective web leading to this event, the Kravinoff's never really had enough involvement throughout to count and Spidey is always fighting villains and encountering personal strife, so no different to normal really. Still, they were good stories and acted to build a level of excitement Despite being initially dubious, I've been quietly pleased with the recent Gauntlet storyline.
Still, they were good stories and acted to build a level of excitement for this pay off. Grim Hunt really serves as a direct follow up albeit one separated by over 20 years of continuity to Kraven's Last Hunt, a classic and deservedly respected Spidey story.
Spoilers present therein: My fear with this story was a resurrection of Kraven. His death was powerful and I feel should be honoured; he didn't need to be brought back as his heritage continues in Spidey's world through his family.
Yet, he is brought back. I still have mixed feelings about it especially the magical aspect to it all though I thought it was done fairly well. What we get is a dark and gritty story, bringing together some of the mystical sides to Spidey with a partial resurrection of the Spider-totem story-lines again, something I actually quite liked.
A large knowledge of Spider-Man continuity is required here new readers should find Wikipedia helpful in filling gaps. Even MJ and Harry briefly turn up plus a bunch of wild animals that are never really explored. There's quite a lot of death too, some rather shocking as old character die, some get changed and some get new starts. Spidey near the end acts in a way we've not seen before, almost as though possessed while hunting the Kravinoff's. Actually, I wasn't sure whether the Spider-force had taken him over, especially with what he does to Sasha and what he almost ends up doing to Kraven.
There's so little speech from him, that you wonder whether it truly is him. The artwork through all of this is fantastically dark, perfectly suiting the tone. There's a lot going on here plus the numerous back-up stories collected.
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