Blade #1

Finally we have Blade back again with his own title.

With the Success of the movies and the TV Series (which we are eagerly waiting for here in Australia), someone at Marvel has finally let there be a new title for the character.

My first introduction to the character was back in the day when I was reading Nightstalkers back in 1992. At the time I was reading Ghost Rider and they started the cross over for the Midnight Sons Story Arc which I lapped up like the person that had just moved out of home and could do what they wanted to does. This Story ended up getting me hooked on Nightstalkers and also On Morbius which I collected until it was axed 32 issues later.

But I Digress...

Blade captured my mind and ever tho I was always rooting for Morbius when thier paths cross the idea of a half breed vampire, or as it is known Dampyr.

But after the Nightstalker Series went I didn't have anything to fill that part of the Marvel Universe.

This latest revamp of Blade to me seems better than what I have read in the past and I like how through out the 32 pages you are given his origins as if he is remembering them while he is on his current mission.

And the action! First we have a Vampire Spiderman, Classroom of Vampire Kids and Dracula showing up within the first quarter of the book!

Then as things progress we find that they are not the only ones who Blade has to come up against.

I'm not wanting to give anything away for thost that haven't read it so I won't mention any of the events that happen in the book but I do have to say this is one book that had to grow on me.

After the first time I read it I was thinking too much of the Wesley Snipes version of Blade (mainly due to me having my own movie marathon earlier that week of all 3 Blade movies) so when I saw Blade in the comic all I was thinking was "where are his tattoos and he doesn't look how I remember him" so I took a week an a half before picking it up again and reading it without that image in my head and I have to say I liked it and I think it's got alot of pertential.

I think the main other thing that put me off it was the Vampire Spiderman who I don't think needed to be in there at all and was only being used as a way to sell the book to those that wouldn't normally pick it up.

Overall I'll be sticking with this and with the next issue having Doctor Doom in it I'd like to see what's going to be happening with the story as it develops.

Creators: Marc Guggenheim, Howard Chaykin, Edgar Delgado