DOCTOR STRANGE JOINS BLADE ON A HIGH-SPEED HEIST!
Blade must break into the armored fortress of a weapons collector to steal a sword of unknown power - the key to defeating the Adana. But the fortress isn't just heavily armored. It's mobile. Doctor Strange guest-stars in this action-packed heist that gives new meaning to the term "bullet train"!
Rated T+
Pinto and Casagrande deliver fantastic art in the issue. The action is visually thrilling throughout and the pace and tone of the story are brilliantly brought to life in the art. Read Full Review
Like the titular hero, this story cuts deep without you fully realizing it. Read Full Review
Blade #4 is a standard, predictable next step in Blade's quest to take down Adana. The art's super and the action is energetic, but the utter predictability of the outcome neuters any excitement. Read Full Review
Blade arrived with a lot of potential, but the sudden compilation of events and announced final issue of Blade #5 suggests it lacked the pre-orders to make a great take on the character last. Read Full Review
I really like this issue, but they are on a train made of adamantium (huh?) I thought adamantium was rare and this tidbit isn't even used in the story. Plus if you're doing a fight scene on a train, then there should be parts of it that are outside the train. The end felt extremely abrupt. I'm sorry that it's ending next issue.
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Not sure if I should give this a 7.5 or 8. The train battle itself was great (at least getting to the head vampire). However the head vampire battle was quite lame, and Strange just sending Blade right to the final boss battle aka Adana, felt lame and rushed. Honestly between this and the new artist (worse than previous issues), screams that Marvel editors are putting them thumbs on the scale to rush this series/run it into the ground. Bryan Hill is clearly being crippled here by the editors/weak artist partners.
If you think about this, besides Hill himself, this run has been sabotaged by a poor colourist in issue 1, a poor artist in issue 4 and editorial/marvel higher ups rushing this/possibly cancelling this on-going series a more
Why did Strange send them there and show up afterwards but couldn't help them during???? Art is worse than previous issues but not terrible. An adamantium train? It just rides tracks around the US and no one notices? Amtrak or the FRA? The main bad guy of this issue offs himself for no reason other than to show the Adana is super powerful? I've enjoyed this series so far but this issue is the weakest of them all. Just nitpicking, it's still a decent series.
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