>Blade is going to have an ongoing again after 16 years
>first issue is out next Wednesday
>almost zero hype or discussion anywhere
What went wrong?
>Blade is going to have an ongoing again after 16 years. >first issue is out next Wednesday
>Blade is going to have an ongoing again after 16 years
>first issue is out next Wednesday
>almost zero hype or discussion anywhere
What went wrong?
>huge layover between solos
>always had more movie fans than comic fans
>daughter mini didn't build hype
>they didn't do anything with sheriff of vampire land thing
Take your pick.
I remembering them announcing that mini at the women of marvel pannel at NYCC in 2016 when did it come out
did it even come out? i thought seeley backed out cause he's white and didn't want twitter homies coming for him
That one was cancelled but they clearly were married to the idea of giving Blade a daughter. This was a different character with a different design.
Also show is in Production Hell
>they didn't do anything with sheriff of vampire land thing
We got maybe two stories about it and they were okay.
Comics are for nerds and he hasn’t had a movie in forever.
And apparently that new movie they're making is a shitshow
How fricking hard is it to make a fun schlock using Mahershala Ali of all people? Seems like easiest job in the world.
They don't wanna make a fun schlock movie. Ali might, but Marvel probably wants to make a PG-13 superhero movie that sands down the rough edges. Which is pretty tricky when the main character's a vampire hunter who kills the undead.
Can he make vamps great again in a post-Twilight/Morbius world?
didn't Blade just get a daughter for some reason?
His daughter was cute and actually a good character
was the book good i never bothered to read it
The book was just mediocre. Not bad but also not great. She is also sort of like a vampire but also not a vampire. Abilities only effective at night.
What hack is writing this crap?
Bryan Hill and it's about an occult supergroup fighting a dark ancient force
Forgot pic very related
Because he'll never be allowed to do anything significant.
He's supposed to be slaying vampires but it never feels like he's actually making any dent in their numbers.
I don't want to have Blade stop and turn to the reader and say "the real vampires are the agents of the white male heteronormative empire!"
>Cancelled in 6 issues and they try to tell us it was a limited the whole time
cancelled by issue 5 is more likely
Amazon doesn't have it listed as a mini so it might be safe for now
hopefully it might have been giving 12 issues of the bat but who knows these days
Marvel and DC has been shit across the board for years. Why would this be the one exception?
He doesn't work in the larger MCU because vamps are nothing compared to every other super threat.
Even in the monster hunting community he isn't a big deal because all of those chars hunt vamps and things worst than that.
Any type of real threat vamps could pose is done better by skrulls or standard x-men groups. Also doesn't help Snipe's movies were just that good at defining him and everyone else since has been trying to imitate.
This is why merged universes are now and always have been absolute dog shit.
To be fair, he had a great crossover in the like Gambit 98 run where they took out a vampire cabal together in New Orleans, but I guess that's an exception instead of a rule on crossing the streams
This is just getting back to that same old manga vs comics shit about "where to start" and how reader-friendly they are. Why is it taken as a given that a comic exists in a shred universe with any other comic?
Then just shunt off Blade and the other supernatural guys into their own Dark Marvel Universe. If they want a crossover, just say there’s only one Hell in the whole multiverse and use that to travel to the different worlds.
That would die instantly. Most the occult guys aren't popular enough to hold a book.
Then 2000AD it and have it be an anthology.
Many of them started in cheap black and white collections so that has a small chance of working. But being so far from the origin means it won't be able to sell with nostalgia.
America hates Anthology titles for the most part
Marvel already kind of does that.
They just skip the giving the occult guys their own books part.
Aaron's Avengers and Blade's daughter solo killed any hype Blade had left.
Blade was only cool with Wesley Snipes. That’s why the new movie is destined to fail. It’ll just try to imitate it poorly.
>It’ll just try to imitate it poorly.
i have this horrible feeling they're just going to make john wick fights vampires
Because he's a low power-level character who constantly jobs in his own features and never had much of a fanbase in the first place.
I do like these occult characters like him and Elsa, but man they really could use better stories and writers. We are lucky stuff like Moon Knight and Daredevil is sometimes good.
Marvel's horror themed books have recently been some of their best books with stuff like Tom King's Vision, sorry I brought up the bad man but the comic was good frick you Immortal Hulk, PKJ's Hulk, Moon Knight, and Ghost Rider. Blade deserves to join this corner of horror Marvel.
I agree on all of these except Ghost Rider.
None of those comics are good
What's bad about Immortal Hulk and current Moon Knight?
They aren't good books and their fanbases are super annoying. Ewing and MacKay are bad writers.
What books do you like anon?
Lots of books including older Hulk and Moon Knight runs.
I would call him a bad writer because the majority of his books are bad.
Yes it is.
No it isn't. It's just saying you don't like it. A valid reason requires elaboration. Opinion, reason, elaborate
Wouldnt call Ewing a bad writer, a tad overrated maybe. Ewing got some decent ideas but his execution of those ideas can be somewhat questionable.
"I don't like" it isn't valid criticism
God you're a parasite. You're not interesting for shitposting on a great Hulk run
Never forget.
did you not get enough replies when you named it immortal cuck?
Remember, Disney's suits was all into the editorial during this time and at Ewing's neck.
Ewing may be a neocohen libtard on social media, but at work, but he would never be this moronic unless there is editor and higher up shit on top of it to force it for journo clicks, same people who pushed that abomination of she-hulk comic and many garbage of that period.
And everyone here knows that Devil would cut her and said "Put yourself on banner's shoes from the beginning and ask yourself what would had have done?
>a neocohen libtard on social media
what does this mean? if anything he's tries to avoid talking about US politics in his books
yes, and it is obvious that those pages picking on modern politics and racial shit were disney's editorial meddling with it.
PKJ Hulk is a bit early, since that's had one issue so far
Bryan Hill is an affirmative action writer who is bad at comic books
>affirmative action
isn't that illegal these days?
Only for things like college applicants
Blade is such an easy character to write for, and his stories are basically insulated from the rest of the marvel universe. No idea why they were so reluctant to give him more solo runs.
Literally just do some 6-12 issue test runs with fully planned out stories. If they succeed then you could try and launch a longer running one
90% of the time his stories should have nothing to do with any other marvel characters IMO, basically like the Punisher.
The 10% where he does should just be some fun team ups or he temporarily has to deal with some villain from another heroes rogue gallery because he’s working for some rich vampires (bullseye vs Blade would be fun for example)
He doesn't sell is the issue, regardless of what they try. No clue as to why.
Feel like he's like the punisher, TOO easy to write content that it's just dull as hell
Just make a video game. Nobody buys comics anymore.
Everything
>are you fricking kidding me wesley snipes hasn't been relevant in decades, why the frick would anyone care about that q-list has been
>marvel's too busy shoving black transgender midgets down our throats to give a shit about blade
>they probably turned him into a troony too knowing those homosexuals
>so tired of this forced diversity, just give us classics with real superheroes, not this sjw trash
>RIP white male protagonists, you will be missed
racism
Give me one, just ONE reason why I should give a single shit about Blade? The dude is probably THE most niche character in Marvel that is laughable when compared to everything else going on in canon. He's a vampire hunter. Okay, and? If I wanted to read stories with supernatural heroes, I'd could easily pick up Doctor Strange, Moon Knight, Ghost Rider, etc. Vampires? I would unironically prefer reading Morbius than Blade.
Give me one, just ONE reason why I should give a single shit about Aquaman? The dude is probably THE most niche character in DC that is laughable when compared to everything else going on in canon. He talks to fish. Okay, and? If I wanted to read stories with literally any other superhero, I'd could easily pick up Batman, Superman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, etc. Fish? I would unironically prefer reading Wonder Twins than Aquaman.
>I would unironically prefer reading Morbius than Blade.
The comic Blade debuted in lasted 70 issues, so it was probably doing something right.
I don't think Blade's had much solo success in the comics, but he also doesn't have many solo comics.
Nothing went wrong.
Blade has never been all that popular. All those anons claiming they love Blade just have vaguely fond memories of the first movie and/or are saying it as a way to justify their hate of some other black character.
Blade is one of those properties that never comes up here on its own, it's always introduced as a response to something the person is complaining about.
Blade and Cloak & Dagger are two Marvel series I've always wanted to get a modern revamp to make them relevant again. I want to see their comics BECAUSE they've been neglected. I've never actually read Tomb of Dracula beyond the one issue that ties into Doctor Strange vs. Dracula and I've never read a Blade solo comic. The only time I've encountered Cloak and Dagger is Runaways and Savage Avengers.
>Cloak and Dagger
god those threads would be impossible. Let that stay dead please. we have enough cuck fetishist shitposting as it is.