Blade is back in new Marvel Comics series from Killmonger, Black Widow vets

Movie fans may have to wait until late 2024 for Marvel Studios’ Sheet to hit theaters, but for comic fans, the adventures of the Daywalker will continue very soon. Thanks to Marvel Comics, Polygon can reveal that a new Sheet series begins in comic shops everywhere this summer.

Brian Hill (Death Eater, Batman and the Outsiders) will write the new ongoing series, with art by Elena Casagrande (Black Widow, Taste of the Amazons) – and that’s a pretty good combination. Hill is a great adventure writer with a clever sense of character; Casagrande draws some of the best fight scenes in modern superhero comics.

“I think the first goal of drawing a fight scene is to make it powerful and fluid at the same time,” Casagrande told Polygon via email. “I see fighting as dancing, so my first thought always goes to choreography and then to the moves I have to make strong. Obviously, each character needs a different choreography, a different way of fighting – it’s fun to personalize it – and with Blade I’m glad to get the chance to use the swords and show off his power.

What’s going on with Blade in Marvel Comics today? Well, he was sheriff of Chernobyl for a while, after Dracula faked the disaster site to become a sovereign vampire nation. And he just met his secret daughter, Brielle Brooks, who is starting to become her own vampire slayer powers. Judging by Marvel’s official recap of the first issue, this series will take a new path, with Blade “unwittingly” unleashing a “dark, ancient force” and dealing with the fallout – but we’ll only know for sure Sheet #1 hits shelves in July.

“Blade is a dear character to me,” Hill told Polygon. “Here we have the chance to explore his history, reveal new aspects of his world and create a story that is brutal, sexy and daring as it travels to the world of monsters and magic.”

View the full application and coverage for Sheet #1 below, courtesy of Marvel Comics:

Marvel’s smartest vampire hunter returns in an all-new story from Bryan Hill (KILLMONGER) and Elena Casagrande (BLACK WIDOW)! Real evil is patient. And a dark, ancient force has been quietly simmering for centuries… and when Blade himself is the one to unwittingly unleash it, Marvel’s entire supernatural underworld will come out of hiding to demand he deal with it. Or pay a pound of flesh for his mistakes. Massacres, blackmail and Blade – you don’t want to miss the explosive first track of this new part!