Comments on: Comic Book Alphabet of Vampires – E

By: Wiseman

Wiseman — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 23:08:15 +0000

The popular blood bath scene of the first Blade movie of him fighting and killing a 1000 vampires as well as the idea and to have Blade, a martial artist non-stop fighting killing vampire machine with a cool swagger bad-ass attitude, were all concepts of Original Blade trilogy Producer, Ken Willis. Who had in fact actually introduced Actor, Wesley Snipes, to the Marvel Blade superhero character comic book. Also, Mr. Willis was instrumental teaching Wesley how to act and play the character before the project was brought to New Line Cinema in the late 90′s. Although, Blade trilogy Writer, David Goyer did do wonderful job writing all 3 Blade orignal scripts. This was just to answer Butler’s question why Blade had powers and he didn’t pre-Snipes? Another footnote Actor, Wesley Snipes, hadn’t heard of the Marvel comic book Blade or knew that the Marvel superhero Blade was African American prior to Mr. Willis.

By: Denn

Denn — Sat, 24 May 2008 22:45:49 +0000

I liked that Mr Fingaz was so damn enthusiastic about the role. He seemed to actually likecomics rather then the usual stars pretending too.

By: Matt Bird

Matt Bird — Sat, 24 May 2008 16:03:13 +0000

I actually really liked the TV series, much more than the movies. I thought Mr. Fingaz did a fine job, though Blade was really more of a supporting character and the lead was actually that babe from the Chrysler commercials.

By: owen gieni

owen gieni — Sat, 24 May 2008 14:30:42 +0000

Quesada just mentioned Blade joining the new Captain Britain MI3 comic in his last cup o’ Joe. The character is too good not to use. I liked the Guggenheim/Chaykin series quite a bit, and if they couldn’t make that work as a monthly then I don’t know how anyone could. Perhaps that rumored Millar/JR jr collab would do it. It would have to have HUGE names attached.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 24 May 2008 11:31:16 +0000

And now Blade has another team, the Vanguard, in the pages of Marvel Comics Presents. Let’s see how long this concept lasts…

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 24 May 2008 06:05:25 +0000

Don’t forget Blade: The Series, which only lasted one season on Spike. While Sticky Fingaz (yeah, you heard me) wasn’t the best lead, the supporting cast did kick ass. Also, they had a vampire that looked to be a very young girl, and she liked draining babies of blood. Yes, it was a pretty good show.

By: buttler

buttler — Sat, 24 May 2008 05:50:16 +0000

So was the daywalker thing just to bring the comics in line with the movies? I was a big Tomb of Dracula fan, and I sure don’t remember Blade having any powers pre-Snipes.

By: Daniel O' Dreams

Daniel O' Dreams — Sat, 24 May 2008 05:42:23 +0000

Pretty sneaky sis!
I like how Blade’s hair gets progressively shorter over the years until he’s bald.
Daywalker status doesn’t make him immune to male pattern baldness, apparently.

By: The Mutt

The Mutt — Sat, 24 May 2008 05:35:35 +0000

You’re a clever devil, Mister Cronin.

I’ve always wondered – - Towards the end of the run of Tomb of Dracula, there were a few guest shots by Marvel superheroes. That makes sense if they were trying to get sales up. But why did Marv choose the Silver Surfer? Or was it his choice?

And why wasn’t Tomb of Dracula in the top ten of greatest runs ever!?!