Decided to get into Blade recently, starting with Tomb of Dracula (1972) and I was not prepared for just how cool Blade is??
i mean no one is cool in the 70s, but then Blade shows up with his shirt halfway open and wooden knives, slaying vampires left and right calling them all 'baby' and 'sugar' and 'fangs'
He has this girlfriend Saffron AND he gets to Fuck™, which from what I've read so far is not really standard at this point in time?
and he also has a sort of rivalry with Quincy Harker (yes, Bram Stoker type Harker) because of differing attitudes towards slaying which is a very interesting dynamic to me
At this point in the comics hes just a normal dude whos really really good at killing vampires and who found out hes immune to vampire bites by Dracula taking a nibble :) He's just so cool!

















