![]() ![]() But this is a touch of, "This guy has been around, met a lot of people, made some strange bedfellows," and that's a really interesting aspect of the character, who he would come across and also the different strata that exists within the Marvel universe when it comes to the occult, when it comes to monsters, when it comes to mercenaries in that world. You're just sort of like, "Well, that makes sense because he's Bond and he would know a person like this." So there is a touch of Ian Fleming in this. And what I think are interesting ways, and this is going to be a weird analogy, but in some ways, I look at Bladethe same way I look at Bond in the sense that Bond goes to Paris and meets with someone and they had some previous adventure you'd never heard of. And so I kind of thought through some of that stuff and I'm bringing some characters in that we haven't seen before that are tied to his past. And I felt like a character that would have these people from his past, people that we haven't met yet. Well, it's one of those situations where you have a character who's been in Marvel comics for as long as I've been around, basically. What is it about his unknown history that has you the most excited for fans to discover? You've previously spoken about exploring Blade's past. But I really wanted a book where he could stand in his own world for a few issues. You're always balancing continuity with all of it, so I just tell people who want to see those things dealt with, be patient, it's coming, we'll get there, we'll get there. But I thought this was an opportunity to get people on board, while also honoring the stuff that's come before. It just struck me that I can't really just set down five issues in front of someone and say, "Hey, here's Blade." We can do that with Batman, we can do that with Superman, Man of Steel, what have you. I adapt them into screenplays for features and all that. It was really because I also adapt comic books. That's what was exciting about it for me. So that's kind of how I approached this one. Because comic book stories are malleable clay passed between writers and artists and everyone leaves their imprint on it and hopefully we're just going to get the bubbles out more and more and more. And I just thought it would be more rewarding for the bulk of the readership to be able to come in like this, which is how I would think about this stuff. When it comes to Bloodline, I think that it's important that Bloodline also not be a character that needs Bladein the story to exist. How do you approach writing a first issue for an established character like Blade? There must be a lot to juggle between making it new-reader-friendly while also setting up your main plot. ![]() That actually leads to another question I was about to ask. And those things are all aspects of the character and certainly want to deal with them. ![]() I wanted it to just kind of hit a bullet. ![]() But I really wanted a number one to feel like a number one and not feel like, number one, A dash B, read this to understand what's happening, C. So with this first arc of Blade, I wanted to give people a down-the-line, fastball-over-the-plate kind of Blade experience so that we can all get on board with these things and then Bloodline and other details will come in as the story progresses. One of the things that I think is really important for comics as a whole is for the layperson who has a brief understanding of the character and an interest in the character, maybe because they saw a movie or because they just saw this or saw that, to be able to walk into a comic book store and pick up something and have it be familiar to not have to catch up to everything from the beginning. I'm not dealing with her very much in the first arc. And sort of chronicles a lot of the events of his life and kind of leads us up into the story we have, which is more of, I think what people would expect from Blade, more of that nomadic, dark hero thing that I think draws us all into the character.Īs far as his daughter goes, she obviously exists in the Marvel universe. And so there's a digital comic called Blade: First Bite, that's a Marvel Unlimited exclusive Infinity Comic, which kind of goes into his disquietude and why that wasn't working for him. Where do we pick up Bladewhen the series begins?īryan Hill: Well, I looked at Jason Aaron's run with the Vampire Nation and it always felt like a period in Blade's life, but ultimately not what would really satisfy him as a character. He just met and trained his daughter, and he was the sheriff of the Vampire Nation. : Your new Blade series comes at an interesting time for the character. ![]()
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