Blade, Vol. 2: Sins of the Father

Blade (2006)

by Marc Guggenheim, Howard Chaykin (Contributor)

It's off to England as Blade seeks answers regarding his mysterious past - but all he's gotten is trouble, so now somebody's gonna pay!

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Graphic Novels, Vampires, Horror, Fantasy, Graphic Novels Comics

144 pages, Paperback

First published October 17, 2007

About the author

Marc Guggenheim grew up on Long Island, New York, and earned his law degree from Boston University. After over four years in practice, he left law to pursue a career in television.

Today, Guggenheim is an Emmy Award–winning writer who writes for multiple mediums including television, film, video games, comic books, and new media. His work includes projects for such popular franchises as Percy Jackson, Star Wars, Call of Duty, Star Trek, and Planet of the Apes.

His next book, In Any Lifetime, coming from Lake Union Publishing on August 1st.

Guggenheim currently lives in Encino, California, with his wife, two daughters, and a handful of pets.

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Reviews

[Robert · Rating 3 out of 5]

Blade must be one of those Marvel characters where the writers feel he's just so effortlessly cool there's no use in even trying that hard.



I think they should, in fact, try harder.

[Gavin · Rating 1 out of 5]

Blade meets his dad, his dad's a white dude, makes a deal with Dracula, who looks like Oleg from 2 broke girls gone metrosexual...

Stupid fights, old man Hannibal King, not the Ryan Reynolds version.

More bad art. I think Howard Chaykin just can't be tolerated.

Cancelled series. What a shock. After this I'm amazed he ever recovered.

Flashbacks to old outfit, and way too many back and forths.

Just so poorly done.

[Judah Radd · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not too shabby.

As far as Blade series’ go, this is one of the best. It’s adequately drawn, and tells an interesting tale about a fun protagonist. What more could you want? Was I blown away? No... but it was a fine way to spend a couple evenings.

[Devero · Rating 1 out of 5]

Come per la prima parte di questa maxi serie in 12 albi, anche questo TP che ne raccoglie la seconda metà è tranquillamente dimenticabile. Poi non è che Blade, nonostante i film di Wesley Snipes abbiano qualcosa che si salva, sia gran che come personaggio. Ancora si salvava quando lo scriveva Wolfman in Tomb of Dracula, ma qui proprio non ci siamo.

[Randy · Rating 1 out of 5]

Very boring. I was hope the series would improve with its second arc, but sadly it did not. I can see why they didn’t continue this run despite leaving it open for more tales.

[Alex Sarll]

It's so long since I read the first volume, and everything here has been reworked so many times since, that at first I didn't even notice Blade's missing hand, much less remember the reason for it. That's on me, but there's a lot else one could criticise, from four different explanations for vampires immune to the usual weaknesses within six issues, to the scene where, having acknowledged British cops aren't armed, Blade nevertheless reasons "Some things are universal" and grabs a handgun from behind the counter of a London convenience store. But all the same...hell, there's Chaykin art, with all the cool that implies, the comic timing, the way everything comes across like a wisecrack even when the script doesn't really support it. And every so often the script does: I loved the musing that the heroic alias Union Jack must sound as weird to Brits as American Flag would to a Yank. It ends on a massive downer, but with the boldest cover of the run loudly proclaiming its cancellation; one more reminder that, whatever its flaws, they really don't make them like this anymore.

[Jedi Master Nate Lightray · Rating 4 out of 5]

Story is fine, but Howard Chaykin's art is so hard to look at. Guggenheim is a decent writer, but I don't think the dark Marvel universe is his strong suit.

I really don't feel like writing a long review for this one. If you like the Blade movies and vampires, or Disney makes the new series and you kinda want to understand what this character is, this and volume one are fine introductions. If you love Spider-Man, there are stronger editions out there. If you wanted to read more Guggenheim, try his Superman run. If you like Chaykin's art style, look at almost anyone else's, and you'll find something better.

[Connor · Rating 2 out of 5]

I had trouble getting into this. Blade has a gun-hand, and despite that the story still wasn't cool. I think the overview is that Blade is trying to find out more about his dad. He talks to Spider-Man and goes to England at one point. The conclusion involves Dracula, but it's not even like a big fight or anything. I guess they reanimated all the vampires that have been killed, which seems like it would have been a big deal, but I really didn't get that feeling from this book.

[Art · Rating 3 out of 5]

It had a lot of adventure. A couple of laughs. But I wasn't too wild about the ending. Especially as it was also the end of this author's run on it. I think if there had been more to come, it would have been better.

[M.i. · Rating 3 out of 5]

The plot is a bit wacky but the story is enjoyable

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

Things are finally starting to loop back to volume 1, #s 1-6 and all of Blade's hard work gets undone by an idiot...hmm.

[Sally · Rating 4 out of 5]

Better than issues 1 - 6.

[Silas · Rating 3 out of 5]

This short-lived Blade series concludes here with an interesting story that fleshes out some of Blade's past, which is generally not all that well covered. I did find it a bit odd that he was missing a hand here, and that just didn't stay with him in later appearances, though I have yet to see anywhere that it was ever explained. I expected it to perhaps just grow back during this volume, but it never did. I'm not sure exactly where this fits in with some other comics I have read, other than that the previous volume was contemporary with the Civil War storyline, but perhaps this volume preceded the resurgence of vampire characters in the X-Men, in particular. It would make sense, anyway. Just the same, this was a fairly interesting volume, overall.

[Fugo Feedback · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pecados del padre peca de varios pecados editoriales. Como cancelar al número 12 una serie que claramente daba para más. Y no lo digo porque me haya fanatizado demasiado, sino porque la estructura de una historia autoconclusiva por número (con al menos un flashback incluido en cada uno) que a su vez arman la trama mayor daba para "estirarla" un poco hasta el esperable pero no del todo predecible final.
Entre las cosas que me gustaron:
El guion por un lado.
El dibujo por otro.
La vuelta coherente de algunos personajes invitados que habían aparecido en el 1.
La cosa de profecía ambigua que se cumple pero no pero sí pero depende.
Ah, y que incluyeran la explicación de qué hacía Spiderman.

No me gustó:
Que si bien guion y dibujo son buenos, es como si en ningún momento se complementaran, como si cada uno fuera a la suya y los gestos y movimientos del dibujo no se correspondieran con las palabras y acciones del guion.
El personaje del papá de Blade. No es bueno, no es malo, no es neutral. No es nada.
Que los pocos personajes femeninos que hay sean casi un adorno.
Que el olor a cancelación se sienta desde un par de capítulos antes del final.
Que (y esto no es culpa del tomo en sí) para esta altura Marvel seguro ya se haya cagado en casi todas las ideas plasmadas en esta historia.

[Ashley Kempkes · Rating 2 out of 5]

There are a lot of reasons why I didn't particularly like this book. The fact that I just read the American Vampire graphic novel series, that there are vampires in the marvel universe, and that this is the second book in this series are the main reasons. The art was good, and while I enjoyed some of the references to other superheros/villians, overall I just felt the book was lacking. The plot and characters were clishe and by the time I got to the climax, I couldn't even enjoy it. I did like that the maim character was a POC and that it wasn't something that was the focus of the plot, it just was but I feel his character could have been built better. Maybe it was in the first volume, but here he was just a guy who hated his father and liked to kill vampires. A lot.

[arjuna · Rating 2 out of 5]

This collection didn't exactly grab me - that could be simply because I'm not familiar with all the backstory etc, but I think it's more than that - in itself the stories weren't particularly compelling, perhaps relying for interest and impetus on familiarity with the characters/universe rather than on plot. Artwork a bit ordinary too - not bad, just unremarkable. I'll re-read (and re-review) this when I'm a bit more familiar with the necessary mythos, just to be fair.

[Francorum Martinezku · Rating 3 out of 5]

cierra este arco argumental dejando muy clara la historia d ela familia de Blade y su desprecio por los vampiros dejando al personaje listo para lo que sigue, conforme pero no enloquecido por la historia la disfrute

[La Revistería Comics · Rating 4 out of 5]

Segundo y espectacular tomo de la dolorosamente corta serie del cazavampiros marvelita por excelencia.

[Dean liapis · Rating 2 out of 5]

Man this art sucks. Spiderman is barely in it, and the art sucks. The plot is ho-hum and doesnt really go anywhere. Got this for $4 and felt like someone punked me. Skip it. Plus I hate the art

[Alan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Flawed but enjoyable, and an improvement on the first half of the story

[Eli Poteet · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not bad. Not bad at all.