Issue(s): Nightstalkers #15
Cover Date: Jan 94
Title: "Bad blood"
Credits:
Steven Grant - Writer
Andrew Wildman - Penciler
Frank Turner - Inker
Chris Cooper - Editor

Review/plot:
This crossover was basically reset at the end of the last chapter, so we are back to everyone running around and fighting demons. Actually, we're back to the team fighting amongst themselves, like they were doing at the very start of the crossover.

The Nightstalkers storm off but then come back a minute later when The Fallen attack the main group.

They arrive too late to stop everyone else from being knocked out, but they stalk Zarathos to a crypt where Caretaker is being held.

But when they reach Caretaker, he tells Hannibal King to go back to the rest of the group (we'll learn the rest of what he says next chapter). Frank Drake is caught in a cave-in while the Nightstalkers are escaping. Blade goes back in for Drake while King returns to the Midnight Sons.

One thing we learn in this issue is that Blackout did not get banished with the other Lilin. When Blackout returned with Lilith in Road to Vengeance, it was said that he was now a full Lilin. But he's now back to being half, and therefore wasn't included in the purge.

Quality Rating: D

Historical Significance Rating: 1

Chronological Placement Considerations: This is part nine of Siege of Darkness. Part ten is in Ghost Rider #45.

References:

• The Lilin were banished in Spirits of Vengeance #17.

Crossover: Siege of Darkness

Continuity Insert? N

My Reprint: N/A

Blackout probably sacrificed half of his Lilin-status in order to escape the purge.