Blade: The Vampire Hunter Vol 1

Blade: The Vampire Hunter #1-10

by Ian Edginton, Doug Wheatley (Illustrator)

The first Blade ongoing series was published from July of 1994 until April of 1995 spanning a total of ten issues. Included in this volume are the issues: Dark Visions, Red Prophet, Black Reign, The Drawing of the Three, Sole Survivors, Cities of the Red Night, Bad to the Bone, Rites and Passages, Dead on Arrival & Post-Mortem.

Genres: Comics, Horror, Vampires, Graphic Novels Comics

237 pages, Comic

First published July 1, 1994

About the author

Edginton sees part of the key to his success coming from good relationships with artists, especially D'Israeli and Steve Yeowell as well as Steve Pugh and Mike Collins. He is best known for his steampunk/alternative history work (often with the artist D'Israeli) and is the co-creator of Scarlet Traces, a sequel to their adaptation of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. With 2000 AD we has written Leviathan, Stickleback and, with art by Steve Yeowell, The Red Seas as well as one-off serials such as American Gothic (2005).

His stories often have a torturous gestation. Scarlet Traces was an idea he had when first reading The War of the Worlds, its first few instalments appeared on Cool Beans website, before being serialised in the Judge Dredd Megazine. Also The Red Seas was initially going to be drawn by Phil Winslade and be the final release by Epic but Winslade was still tied up with Goddess and when ideas for replacement artists were rejected Epic was finally wound up - the series only re-emerging when Edginton was pitching ideas to Matt Smith at the start of his 2000 AD career.

With D'Israeli he has created a number of new series including Stickleback, a tale of a strange villain in an alternative Victorian London, and Gothic, which he describes as "Mary Shelley's Doc Savage". With Simon Davis he recently worked on a survival horror series, Stone Island, and he has also produced a comic version of the computer game Hellgate: London with Steve Pugh.

He is currently working on a dinosaurs and cowboys story called Sixgun Logic. Also as part of Top Cow's Pilot Season he has written an Angelus one-shot.

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Reviews

[Dan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Didn't like it when I read it. Eh...well it was okay. All those weapons and he doesn't even kill one vampire. The artist was a good storyteller though.

[Devero · Rating 1 out of 5]

La serie parte poco dopo la cessazione di Nightstalkers #1 e segue le vicende solitarie di Blade.
Oltre ad avere scarse e pessime idee, tipo la costruzione magica di un nuovo Dracula, è disegnata male per quasi tutti i numeri.
Segna anche la fine della sottofamiglia dei Midnight Sons, visto che dal numero 4 o 5 la copertina non riporta più il logo, come d'altra parte accadde a tutte le altre serie rimaste, ossia Morbius.
Quindi come serie è decisamente una perdita di tempo.
1 stella.

[Ramón S. · Rating 2 out of 5]

The art is weird, the environment is too dark, the characters are not attractive, the only good point is the woman who hires the apartment to Blade and their relationship