Author: Bryan Edward Hill
Artists: Elena Casagrande & Valentina Pinti
First published: 2024 (TPB)
Contains spoilers
The Blurb: The Daywalker returns for a new era of vampire hunting! True evil is patient. A dark, ancient power has been simmering quietly for centuries. And when Blade himself is the one to unknowingly unleash it, Marvel's entire supernatural underworld comes out of hiding to demand that he handle it - or pay a pound of flesh for his mistakes! But Blade's greatest hope of success rests with the last person he wants to ask: a hostile ex! Blade must travel to Japan to meet a high-end arms dealer who may be the key to defeating the Adana, the deadly threat Blade has inadvertently released! And as the pulse of its power ripples across the Marvel Universe, a familiar friend is drawn into the fray. Bloodbaths, blackmail and Blade - you won't want to miss this one!
The review: A limited length Blade adventure, it runs for the length of two volumes and this one sets the story up and the limited run is probably its weakness as it feels rushed. It starts with Blade tricked into killing a warrior who, though fearsomely dressed, is the key to stopping the resurgence of an evil entity named Adana. By killing the warrior, and then losing the weapon he wielded, which is the only thing that can kill Adana, Blade opens the way for her to emerge, possessing the girl he thought he was protecting. Adana’s goal is the end of the world.
Blade spends the rest of the story trying to find a new method of killing the entity. This includes getting help from Tulip, the ex and arms dealer mentioned in the blurb, trying to steal Lucifer’s sword from a vampire who lives on an ever-moving armoured train and begging guidance from an unlikely ally…
The artwork is strong, and portrays what it needs to, but was shy of being breathtaking, to me, but the issue lay in the rushed feeling of the comic book. Because this is a very limited run it really crammed the narrative in but, especially as this is global and apocalyptic, it felt rushed and in feeling so it lost impact. Not that this is poor by any stretch, but it could have stood for room to breathe. 6 out of 10.
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