Blade: Red Band #1 draws fresh blood. After Blood Hunt provided a full stop to the previous Blade series, this new chapter shed much of the burden and complications. Read Full Review

Plot
After the BLOOD HUNT event, Blade exiled himself to a remote island in Asia called Lupui Island, where he lives as a hermit, training and building weapons, but mostly torturing himself.

He is visited by Damien, a member of the Spellguard, a sect of sorcerers who sought to destroy a sect of vampires that experiments with humans, they hire Blade to eliminate their new leader...PONTIOUS VAN HELSING!

Blade meets with Damian, but notices that Damian uses his magic to persuade him, Blade eliminates Damian and agrees that he is going after Van Helsing but on his own terms.

Using a magic dagger he locates Van Helsing on a map, who is waiting for him.

This comic does not hold back in showing action, blood and dismemberments, it is the perfect tone to recreate the world of violence in which Blade lives.

Art
It's textured and organic, with some great hand-to-hand combat action sequences that know how to make them violently explicit.

Summary
Blade returns from self-imposed exile and is determined to redeem himself from his mistakes and continue eliminating as many vampires as he can. more