The Reason Blade is Acting a Fool in Marvel's Blood Hunt #1

[@tuumef1799]

I find it stupidly, darkly funny that vampires had an easier time (relatively) getting a sovereign nation and protection easier than mutants. Just saying.

[@felixlopez7908]

I was thinking the same damn thing 😂

[@joshuaiable]

Ikr I swear vampires actually want to attack and drink human blood but yeah let's take out and harass mutated humans which always try to protect us from harm XD.

[@sawtooth808]

You might be on to something there 🙄🤦‍♂️

[@dominichelton]

Bro this is the single most important comment I've seen in regards to marvel. This better lead to a cheeky comment from Sam Wilson or something.

[@bronzetiger6360]

Vamps act in secret. Mostly. Humans rarely " see them", but Magneto Taking Army bases, sinking nuclear submarines, and " Pulsing" the World, all while Stating " We are the Next Step"? Noted 😅 Apocalypse having a Skyscraper size Ship above Manhattan, And empowering " Agents" to nearly Nuke New York(Sleeper) or " Earthquake " the East coast( Moses Magnum) Both Huge Avenger cases that were very Public. Mutants are Lucky they Haven't been exterminated.

[@Mister_Terrific806]

I love it when characters channel their inner black air force energy. Honestly I don't think anyone will beat Uranos in this aspect.

[@noa_the_knower]

Uranos is peak black air Force energy. Madara levels

[@azureheart2846]

Man had Isca, a Mutant with the literal power of "Na, I’d win" turn sides.

[@Peecamarke]

I mean, Dracula also did a good job of getting Blade to question his identity and showing his need to respect/appreciate his vampire heritage. Which I get, since that’s also a crucial part of what’s made Blade who he is and it’s not automatically evil and Blade’s shown seemingly shown no appreciation or respect for it.

[@gavinv-q3o]

Now I really regret taking a few months off reading Avengers (Jed McKay has grown on me a lot). I have no idea whats going on beyond the really great Avengers line up. Also...Tigra! low key one of my favorite Avengers.

[@stevejackson500]

We gon overlook Dr. Doom having a barrier over an entire COUNTRY

[@doodoo5594]

honeslty that was one of the least surprising things about this issue 😂

[@uptowndadeboi7925]

Blade series with the Adona and all the evil he was doing finally caught up

[@sawtooth808]

Since all the Dark Force wielding characters were affected, there was no sight of Black Mamba of The Serpent Society (now known as Serpent Solutions) (Black Mamba can manifest the Dark Force in the form of a loved one of the person she is fighting against {ie if she is fighting Havok she can manipulate the Dark Force to take the form of Polaris or Madeleine Pryor, and then said Dark Force constricts the person)

[@bajansamurai]

I'm sure Black Mamba is somewhere tied up in the same spell, but there're only so many they'll depict to infer all of them got taken over.

[@DramaNinja0]

Blade fan since 1998, and I want the world to witness how much of a threat Blade can be to an entire planet if he ever became a villain! The rise of the Daystalker!

[@ATACXGYMCAPOEIRA]

Me too, man. I wasn't happy at all to see Blade acting imo so out of character as to drink Drac's Blood, wield Lucifer's sword...but given the threat he faced? I could sorta kinda maybe see him doing that stuff due to his extreme desire to utterly eradicate all vampiric threats and his long known "go it alone super solo" inclinations combined with his general unwillingness to reach out for help or really associate with other Marvel heroes in general. I thought that was permanently removed via Jason Aaron's spectacular handling of the character, and the smooth way his recent solo series is handling that. But what do I know anyway, right?

[@benparrish672]

Archangel would mop up characters in an event like this, no matter which side he was on. Warren Worthington the 3rd is almost back. Vastly underrated powerset

[@AL-ut6hl]

oh good someone else remembers blade going nuts in the 90's , but with the epoch and atlantean referances it brings to mind another 90's incident the resurection of Varnae by doctor strange who then manipluted the mentally unstable blade and the other Nightstalkers into fighting him as Strange was to scared to do it himself, that stab in the back could be payback from either or both of them

[@BillionDollars_Stcyr7999]

We knew something was going to happen after the whole Adana situation! I sincerely hope they don’t de-power him after this arc !!!!

[@bamstarful]

It's a clone(has to be) Deacon Frost tried to clone Blade for year's with Hannibal King help but clones sometimes just didn't work or came out as natural Full Vampires but that plot is from the 1980's I think

[@Logan7281X]

Also have to take the Darkhold Defiled Blade story into consideration.

[@6SolCrossZero9]

You know what's crazy? Remember the Darkhold comics? With Iron Man, Spider-man, Black Bolt, Blade and Wasp? This has the makings of Darkhold Blade taking over the world. Also if Blade's most recent adventure with the powers he learned how to use from Dracula? It feels like a great way to write him as a villain

[@TheEliteX1]

Man, if you think the last page of this issue was messed up you should see the last page of the Red Band version of this issue. 😨

[@dankusoonyt7473]

I think the final page in the original version of Blood Hunt would be put in the Red Band version with Blade stabbing Doctor Strange first, then slicing him in half.

[@edmondallen9393]

I know right

[@doodoo5594]

it kinda seems like this event will be mostly focused on the characters that mackay has been writing; the avengers, the midnight mission and the sanctum, which i’m very much here for

[@ATACXGYMCAPOEIRA]

T'Challa and Wakanda would not be vulnerable to vampires. The first and mightiest vampires, plus many versions of vampires that have different powers which are the first of these superpowered type vampires we see in Blood Coven Blood Hunt etc were in Alkebulan miscalled Africa first. As such? Wakanda would have long been the first human nation aware of and proof against vampires, zombies, werewolves etc before any other hunan nation. Long before Isipho miscalled Vibranium became their thing, Wakanda would have made their land a place that zero supernatural, and most Interdimensional or cosmic, threats could enter. That's also a good reason for and explanation of The Marvel Zombies not being able to overtake Wakanda. Furthermore, Black Panthers' habit/uniform, and every member of The Panther Religion including the higher ranking literal Order of The Panther God which includes but isn't limited to: Ingwe Emhlophe, Silver Leopard miscalled White Tiger [ really stupid of them to use that name for Casper Cole because there are no Tigers in Alkebulan miscalled Africa; his title and rank should be Silver Leopard ], Ingwenkala Ibomvu [ Red Cheetah ], Isipho seNgonyama [ Lion's Gift/Golden Lion ], and of course Damisa Sarka...The Black Panther. All of these members have powerful protections of every kind. Proof against possession, mind reading, spiritual compulsion/domination, being "turned" by any supernatural power, etc. Sekhmet, Bast, Koy Bomba, and all the other "feline" type gods of Alkebulan hunt and kill supernatural threats as part of their whole "thing" for existence. Khonshu was known to aid in this, as "travelers by night" were often beset by supernatural terrors. And that's BEFORE you get to the hundreds of wild powerful sorcerers, wizards n stuff led by Mendinao, Zawaviri, etc. Myself? I'd rather see The Panther Order upper echelons dominated by the red black green and gold of Zote Alkebulan miscalled Pan African thought, but that's me. And maybe it IS. Remember these parts of Panther lore have never been explored, explained, modernized and rectified. Sure wish Marvel would get an actually GOOD writer on BP. Like Geoffrey aka Redjack. Allllllll of their writers SUCKED since Hudlin and Liss left. Coates and his crew? Were the ABSOLUTE WORST things to happen to T'Challa EVER. I'll prolly write a fanfic about The Order of The Panther God... ...regardless? My manz Jed MacKay n Co are playin T'Challa WEAK on this. And that's a shame because a truly formidable max'd out showing by the heroes make the villains way more formidable if they're winning anyway. Thor's Mjolnir is also a divine holy weapon capable of utterly destroying the body and soul of Dracula with one hit, as their battle and discussion in Thor's series in the 1980's made clear. Thor could have Holy Lightning Stormed the lot of The Blood Coven...or at least tried and have it signally fail, to the surprise of all, thus making The Blood Coven even scarier. You know who else would be CRAZY EFFECTIVE against these threats? His main bag of gitdown, even more than Clea or Strange? Nganga Vodun miscalled Doctor Voodoo. He'd be pimp slappin the teeth outta all these vampires.

[@ogjohnnydeath]

Oh no he has black air forces on, RUN!

[@stephenarato5391]

Blade is possessed by Varnae

[@neptuneniq]

Bloodstorm One looks badass

[@bajansamurai]

What I also found wild is that Blade considers Wanda wouldn't have it in her to go genocidal on the vampires but Strange would... despite Wanda being the one who hit the "No more mutants!" in G major.

[@alexsolomon8127]

extenuating circumstances. She had gone through MULTIPLE nervous breakdowns when she did that, and was not in her right mind. Strange IS in his right mind...and would absolutely do it. Again. until he got all angsty about his dead brother and undid his own spell like a rank, moronic amateur. the hilarious part of this is it is taking the whole "vampires are people too" BS (and it IS BS) and combining it with his previous "defeat all the evil magical creatures in the world by eating all magic" rampage. Is he being manipulated by outside forces or not? I honestly don't care anymore. my money is on Cthon though. Vampirism in marvel IS a Cthonic virus. the darkhold and Cthon IS currently held captive in the scarlet witch. And the ONE man that could possible cobble together an alternate verison of the Montesei formula has been taken off the table. solution? free the Darkhold. oh, and who previously made a deal with the darkhold, and technicly owes his soul to Cthon ? why, Blade of course. And Blade was NEVER a 'good guy" he has ALWAYS been a fanatic. this whole stint with him in Avengers has been him acting agaisnt type, and this is actually a GOOD reason why. Side note: Blade turning "good guy" during the 90s Midnight Sons era was specificly due to Dr. Strange implanting a post hypnotic suggestion in Blade when he was locked up in a mental asylum because he was fixated on killing vampires..and all the vampires were GONE at the time. So strange implanted a mental suggestion that t "there are worse things in the night than Vampires" But he was still loony tunes and hyper fixated on his mission...which led to him making a deal with the Darkhold.

[@renahgade1750]

But even with “no more mutants”, the entire mutant population wasn’t vanquished. I suppose Blade is taking note of that

[@benito6036]

Wanda’s also had a whole guilt arc since the cuckoo bananas state she was in after Disassembled and No More Mutants

[@alexsolomon8127]

@@benito6036 yeah, but then she "redeemed" herself by somehow giving mutants thier own afterlife that they are in complete control of, allowing to ressurect ANY mutant EVER, not just the ones Xavier recorded.

[@yoyomayne]

I saw it as him being sarcastic

[@ginofrancejr555]

Awesome review blade is going to going to go full savage in this I love it

[@danielsantini4580]

In what world or time line does this take place 🤔

[@blackphoenix77]

And then the next Blade series will quickly forget that he ever had a dark turn and quickly make him heroic again with zero attempts at seeking redemption or forgiveness It's happened before (Moon Knight, Scarlet Witch, Bishop, etc)

[@cornflaks11]

How do you know? This is the first issue.. ya quick to jump to conclusions.. we don't even know what's going on yet

[@bajansamurai]

​@@cornflaks11He's making meta-commentary about how that often happens, not stating outright that this will 100% happen. It just happens pretty often.

[@TheWeakest26]

To be fair Wanda has been trying to make amends for almost 20 years. We’ve seen the mutants more or less tell her she’s not deserving of repentance and atonement but Wanda kept trying and it wasn’t until she created an afterlife for every mutant in existence to come back into the physical world that they forgave her.

[@dannytorrence9424]

I totally loved this new series. Even got cool teeth that came with my red band edition. And for the record we need more Hellraiser in any form more and more and more. Also the d6 damage line. Omg soooo great. Your the best man. Hahahaha. Loving this. Hoping he brings back moon knight so bad. His series is my favorite run of any comics. Just here for it ALL!!

[@Peecamarke]

Great vid Blerd! 👍🏿

[@wisforwumbo6408]

This thumbnail is brilliant

[@lukegarner6948]

I think it's a clone, but what if Blade is attempting to turn any heroes he can in an attempt to keep them in the game? I'm not sure how exactly vampirism works in Marvel, but does the whole "head vampire" thing apply? Like anyone Blade turns would essentially report and rely on him?

[@foreverprime6255]

Vampires get their own nation, no problem, mutants get their own nation huge problem

[@Carl-vg5zt]

Man , I had to put my pitch fork back above the fireplace 🎉😅

[@seandamienhill]

I figured what was going on when you had the all black Nike’s on the thumbnail

[@bajansamurai]

So, with this being just issue #1 I don't read too much into Blade's seeming villainy (plus his comments to Miles makes me believe there is something else being stealthily achieved while Blade "plays" the villain). He may simply need to stall Strange and Wanda right now and still not truly be behind this event fully. That said, IF he is off his rocker, I hope one or more of those reasons actually apply (e.g., Adanna corruption, Vlad's blood corruption, possession by Victor Strange who recently got free of Stephen's seal), because the "Well, I had good reasons to do this bad thing, but I'm good again now." feels lame when we look back at how many lives lost a stint at villainy adds up to, just for the hero turned villain to just turn right back around and play Avenger again 3 months later.

[@SamWilson801]

Yall better put some respect on the low black air forces dammit

[@Silver_Spectre]

Whatever Blade’s plan is I feel Miles is important in some shape with Miles being on the cover of issue 3 as well as going on Miles’ own book

[@Branalecks]

Vampires can have a Krakoa but not mutants bet!

[@Gamerdude28]

Was thinking the exact same thing!

[@adrianrussell7769]

Came here to say the same thing! Marvel can't let Mutants have ISH!

[@Gamerdude28]

Worst part is that Vampires and Aliens done more damage than any of the mutants of Marvel

[@LyonKnight24KX]

RIGHT!?! Speak the truth!

[@Rage_Templar]

​@@Gamerdude28 hold up..... are we sure about that chief? Aliens sure but I guve them a slide. Vampires?!

[@luisa.acevedo3326]

I find amusing that Blade's father is latverian and a vampire to boot.

[@daemonblackfyre3238]

Bro.... I'm Team Blade. BLOOD 😂😂😂😂

[@Geronimo904]

This is giving the vibes of "King Booker" and "Silverback" Mark Henry... Power up/Push to Heel Turn... The former 2 ended with them just getting some(GWH) over.... Hopefully blade is who blade "puts over".

[@bizzerdman2093]

Wasn't blackout killed during secret empire by Maria Hill?

[@dankusoonyt7473]

Yes but was later revived in the Damnation storyline by Doctor Strange & later appears in the 600th issue of Iron Man before appearing in this event.

[@jackmuaddib3745]

I don't think it's our Blade. Probably a Blade from another reality or just someone that looks like Blade to trick everyone else.

[@kamdenwilson9340]

Someone mentioned switchblade it might be a case of blade being splintered

[@jorgeneedssleep7978]

I did love No Road Home and No Surrender

[@survivorscheme4754]

More evolutions than Eevee and makes it look easy. Nice line! 😅

[@nitetimejohnson]

Is this Marvel's version of DC vs. Vampires?

[@Art80385]

Great video. I am going to let them cook and I want to see where this will go

[@dadegg8998]

Where are the Sentinals and Ultron to save the marvel unuverse?? Just assemble all the fire users like the Human Torch, Sunspot, Firestar, etc to light the Marvel universe Darkest hour...

[@Aboriginal_American_Hebrew]

Writer’s inconsistency

[@johnodonnell1824]

I thought Iron Man's Mysterium armor can't be affected by magic

[@jmarquiso]

When I saw that ending I had to see what you had to say

[@doctorleak5312]

So they can cure jubilees vampirism

[@qbrizzy1158]

Thor was most likely holding back because no one there can wield mjolnir and one good throw with it would go straight through their heads.

[@cornflaks11]

This first issue is 🔥... i like that the Avengers got slaughtered, sam is going to be a key factor in this story & the twist at the end with Blade being the "villain" of this story..specially after the shit he went through in his solo series

[@charlesking1345]

Would the vampires be accepting of blade after his years of killing them? Maybe it’s a shapeshifter.

[@cornflaks11]

That's what I think to.. another vampire who shape-shifting into blade

[@supadee33]

MF Doom

[@EllTimes]

So does this mean blade is gonna lose in his story rn. So he lost and got taken over. Is that what this story is saying?

[@PoeArtryCreativeMovementLLC]

I wonder if what happened VERY early in the Krakoa Era will come into play with Wolverine's blood🤔

[@dankusoonyt7473]

Since the 12th issue of the current Avengers run ties in to Fall of X & leads up to Blood Hunt, the crossover might intersect with the Fall of the House of X initiative but would mostly tie in with the From The Ashes initiative

[@Dr.Kingmaker]

I think I'm one of the few that think them not letting mutants have a home home makes comic sense. If there is a possibility that their fight is supposed to mirror the fight for civil rights then they won't have the same privileges.

[@jasonguinn6075]

Where's Cloak at ?!

[@AdrianMendoza23]

Blood Hunt!!!

[@iriav2]

Humanity CANNOT let the mutants breath easy for a second and attack 2 peaceful mutant nations, but Vampires....eff it, ya'll good. Welcome to NATO.

[@Uprssdthwrgbttn]

The only one that doesn't make sense is Thor. Dude fought Gorr The God Butcher but gets sleepy against vampires? Nah.

[@akidajasper6545]

I don’t have feelings yet about it I’m letting it cook with an eyebrow raised up

[@jamesscott305]

Can they turn Vision??…:

[@marcusstewart4141]

Gotta say, I'm not feeling this story so far......I hope there's some greater scheme at play that will pay off in the Long run, but I'm not liking what I'm seeing 😩

[@manuelbermudez2134]

So you don't usually agree with people changing things because in this way but people are bad because of a other

[@MMAHypeWatch]

Nope. Still angry about it! =)

[@ExTriv]

Sooooo the vampires can have a sovereign nation, but mutants can't. Oh ok

[@qbrizzy1158]

Where the hell was Werewolf By Night🤦🏾‍♂️he’s like the most powerful Werewolf and in his little content he has shown to be formidable or has won against a good amount of characters like, Moon Knight, Spider-Woman, Morbius, Dracula, Ghost Rider, and The Hulk. He is invulnerable to any soul attacks and he is literally cannot be killed at all unless it’s silver to the heart so brute strength and all that may k.o him( not fast at all) but it won’t kill him at all.With that said Ghost Rider, Swamp Thing, and Werewolf By Night should’ve been the first calls made when blade started going all Hitler

[@wolfwraith8172]

Not the black Airforces

[@shanethewatcher6163]

Why would they do this?? Promoting his daughter or..... ? Is this lowkey confirmation that they dot want to do the Blade movie?

[@bajansamurai]

Don't read that much into it. Marvel has always done some seemingly counterintuitive things around the time some of their movies were coming out, including having Sersi die around Eternals' time; Ironman in a coma around one of his releases - spun out of opposing Captain Marvel in a Civil War; Black Panther being enemy of the state/world at the height of his popularity, etc. Ultimately, this turn will be wrapped up and he'll be onto his next development by the time Blade even comes out.

[@setheasy]

Blade 🩸🩸

[@raray12]

This rap beef for me behind on the things that really matter my b

[@MrDJ3940]

im keep following this but to make blade evil again. to clich'e

[@rasun316]

...i was pleasantly surprised at how good BH #1 is.. but i can't follow the whole series!

[@bajansamurai]

Probably good enough to stick to the main title and look out for the random one or two tie-ins that really had something interesting develop.

[@josemcazares9508]

Dc deceas😮

[@Alka-ow2bo]

but actually good

[@Joaoxorubatsu]

Turn into bat, wolf and mist? Okay. Copying SOTN is going too far...

[@terrancehylton-lyons1776]

Lol, those are literally classic vampire abilities from European lore

[@j.t.hellstrom3791]

Black Panther, Miles Morales and Doc Strange will be turned....Spoiler Alert!😉😉 I wonder if "The Unforgiven " will make an appearance in this saga. That'd be awesome.