Looks Like Blade’s Daughter is Finally Making Her Comics Debut

Set your thoughts again to Marvel Comics in 2015, throughout their “All New, All Different Marvel” interval, whereby a number of legacy heroes had been being changed by youthful, extra various counterparts after the universe-altering occasions of Secret Wars. While lots of these characters managed to make it off the bottom, like Riri Williams as Ironheart or Nadia Pym because the Unstoppable Wasp, one noticeable character who very a lot didn’t was a daughter for the writer’s beloved vampire hunter, Blade.

Under the straightforward title of Blade the Hunter, the comedian would’ve centered on the Daywalker and his teenage daughter Fallon Grey, who was going to comply with in her dad’s footsteps of slaying bloodsuckers, and never be too completely happy about it. Written by Tim Seeley (Grayson, Shatterstar) and drawn by Logan Faerber (‘Namwolf, Oh, Killstrike), the comic quietly went away after many online pointed out how it felt odd for two white guys do a comic about two black people, something Seeley himself later acknowledged in 2016. Citing the success of Black Panther’s relaunch by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Brian Stelfreeze that very same 12 months, Seeley admitted to CBR that “I felt like it was me screwing up. I couldn’t help but feel like a black woman might write this stuff better than me…maybe Blade is the book they find new talent on.” But that by no means occurred, not helped by Blade’s then-sporadic appearances in comics on the time.

All of that brings us to this weekend. Marvel just lately launched a promo picture of a younger girl named Brielle taking a look at a case of weapons from Blade that he gave to Safron Caulder, his on/off girlfriend (and presumably Brielle’s mom). Under the codename Bloodline, she’s set to make her official debut in a narrative by author Danny Lore (Champions, Death of Doctor Strange: Blade) and artist Karen S. Darboe (Magic: The Hidden Planeswalkers, Marvel Voices: Legacy) in Marvel’s Free Comic Book Day challenge, one thing editor-in-chief Akira Yoshida CB Cebulski teased at earlier in March on Twitter.

Since Jason Aaron and Ed McGuinness introduced Blade onto their present Avengers run again in 2018, the character’s had his comics presence slowly boosted up forward of his upcoming film starring Mahershala Ali. While we presently don’t know if the film will convey within the concept of Blade having a child, it wouldn’t be a foul concept to start out seeding that in so if Brielle does ultimately make her strategy to the large display, followers could have an concept of what to anticipate. That, and black individuals killing vampires is mostly a fairly cool factor.

Bloodline will make her debut in Marvel’s Free Comic Book Day challenge, which can launch on May 7.

[through GamesRadar]

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