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Blade Vol. 2: Sins of the Father (Marvel Comics)

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A solid final 6 issues to this 12 issue BLADE series by Marc Guggenheim. The end ties in very well with TOMB OF DRACULA and taps into Blade's past. Very entertaining and just as good as the first volume. This series is cool because it attempts and succeeds in making Blade more than a stock character for the Marvel Universe.

***SPOILERS***
Blade's past catches up with him as he finds Lucas Cross and discovers that he really is his father and that his mother was a native of LATVERIA. Hannibal King helps Blade find an old friend and all of this culminates in meeting DRACULA himself. OH AND BEFORE ANY OF THIS HAPPENS, BLADE ACTUALLY DIES!

Great book! It's a shame BLADE is so underrated.

Marc Guggenheim's (Wolverine) launch of a new Blade series comes to an end with his second storyarc, Sins of the Father. In these issues, the vampire hunter attempts to learn the truth in regards to whether or not the man claiming to be his father really is, and in the meantime, comes across an uber-vamp priest that actually, gasp!, ends up killing Blade. Well, not really, but that is how the back cover of this TPB sells itself. Later on, Tomb of Dracula favorite vamp/private detective Hannibal King pops up out of nowhere as he and Blade team up, and then Guggenheim surprisingly wraps things up well as the series comes to a close. Sins of the Father provides decent amounts of action, but once again, the character of Blade doesn't work out so well in comic form as opposed to the world of film. This is the one abnormality in the comic book world that no single writer who has ever tackled Blade (besides his creator Marv Wolfman) has been able to change, and it looks as if it never will either. Howard Chaykin's artwork is once again an acquired taste, but what is a real treat is the concluding pages of the TPB are drawn by industry legend and Blade and Tomb of Dracula co-creator Gene Colan as Guggenheim brings everything to a close. All in all, Sins of the Father is worth a look at the very least, but like Undead Again before it, whether or not you like it is entirely up to the reader.