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I liked Cornell's take on him in the MI13 book. As they pointed out at the time, people also forget he's British.

And almost a century old.

Edited by Mrph1 on Oct 9th 2022 at 6:43:51 PM

It's not a Marvel book, but Ram V and Sumit Kumar have a similar take on that in These Savage Shores. The British Empire conceals its vampires amidst the English nobility, feeding on those they rule.

One ends up in British occupied India ("The Raj"), assuming that the Indians, now second-class citizens in their own land, will be especially easy pickings.

It... it doesn't quite work out that way.

Gorgeous art, great story. I'm still hoping for a sequel.

"What do you think of Western civilization?"

"It would be a noble idea."

Considering he’s British you could easily do a vampire remnant of the British Empire, like the equivalent of vampire confederates

Would be cool yeah for Blade to kill some racist fucks

The "vampires as retrograde colonialists/imperialists" has popped up in fiction a lot in the last couple of decades. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter for example pitches that vampires are largely intermingled with the slave-owning south, as slavery provides a fairly easy cover to gather "food". In many ways the modern vampire has always had those vibes (with Stoker's Dracula at least partially representing the decadence of old world aristocracy, although spun in a more orientalist sense).

There's something neat about the fact Blade, despite being a fairly important black character in comics history, never was about race (to the best of my knowledge), but it's also a bit of a missed opportunity that he never went there considering how easy it is to take vampires that way.

Going back to Paul Cornell's MI13 run and the "Vampire State" arc - Cornell writes Dracula as racist (and Islamophobic), and he does try to stir a bit of racial tension up to target Blade, including trying to set him against Union Jack.

Neither hero falls for it and someone (Blade?) comments that Dracula's mistake is to assume everyone is as racist as the vampire himself is, but it's a while before Dracula realises that.

Union Jack does have issues with Blade, but they're nothing to do with race. It's just the utterly cold-blooded way he kills vampires, including the son of Blade's new girlfriend, Spitfire. I mean, she asked him to, and her son was an undead scumbag, but Union Jack was still hoping for his redemption...

If you want to tie Blade to the larger MU, the trick is to have him react to Vampires interacting with the larger MU.

A good start would be with Krakoa since Wolvie is already dealing with vampires in his series (last I checked)

Isn't he currently sheriff of the Chernobyl vampires in Aaron's Avengers?

Yes.

He gets to do summary justice to vampires.

New Guardians of the Galaxy announced for 2023

With an image saying "How do you rebuild a family?"

So we're doing the MCU family crap again I guess.

Well it might be worth it if if we get to see Star Lord and family in street races

Edited by MorningStar1337 on Oct 9th 2022 at 7:34:20 AM

dominic toretto is joining the gotg.

Edited by Deadpoolrocks on Oct 9th 2022 at 7:41:42 AM

There was a nice one-shot (tying into The Death of Doctor Strange... but not really) about that, but otherwise nothing has really been done with it.

The issue with Blade is that he's basically team fodder. Sure he appears a lot but its never really about him.

Keep in mind the new Bloodline title is the first Blade installment that isn't an event tie-in of some kind.

There is an important distinction to a character that is only apart of teams vs appearing in their own titles and settings after all.

Yeah, that one shot felt like it'd be wonderful as a full-series (or at least a minsieries) but nothing came out of it. Vampire Sheriff Blade is a really cool premise, shame no one's doing anything with it.

Didn't the second Blade movie have a scene where an evil vampire asks him if he blushes?

There's a new issue of T.E.S.T. Kitchen out, this time with chef Anna asked to cook a birthday barbecue for Janet van Dyne.

She surprises the assembled Avengers with a very familiar recipe - Edwin Jarvis's BBQ chicken glaze, amazing them that she managed to get the 'secret' ingredients.

And she refers to him as "unc-" before she catches herself, which probably explains how. Hopefully that means more Jarvis in future, which is always a good thing.

Read an issue of the Silver surfer yesterday where he meets..The impossible man!

poor surfer

Another Marvel Marriage occurs today

Matt and Electra

Shall we start a countdown to Elektra getting offed? Again.

Over in Judgment Day, Death to the Mutants ends with The Machine that is Earth annihilating its own personality (with a little help from the Eternal Phastos) to stop the Progenitor using it as a weapon and buy a little more time. A bit sad about that.

As the narrator for Gillen's Eternals run, it was a great character and a big part of the narrative style. And it's hard not to read this as Gillen taking his narrator off the table before the next Eternals writer moves in; drawing a line under the run. Somehow I don't see it coming back when the event hits the reset button. But it was a good, defiant exit.

Also, we get the fiery Eternal Syne and Krakoa's Exodus finding common ground in 12th century French poetry and deicide. That feels like it's setting up something key to the finale.

This issue also has the Literal Planet Earth saying "Come at me, bro."

I love comics sometimes.

And published the same day that David/Legion, after facing Uranos in the skies of Arakko, has this in his retelling of that event:

"I nearly said 'come at me, bro', just to break the silence"

Coincidence? Coordination? You decide.

Edited by Mrph1 on Oct 12th 2022 at 7:27:30 PM

And just read A.X.E.: Iron Fist.

As a tale of Lin Lie and Loki facing the Progenitor's judgment, it's fair enough. Just don’t expect any sort of conclusion to the series and its plot arc.