Seems like Blade has inadvertently doomed the world by unleashing the Adana.

Whoops.

So he turns to an ex – arms dealer Tulip – for help, but she’s not exactly free of her own troubles.

Writer Bryan Edward Hill really has a great, action movie feel down with his comics – and his Blade is no exception.

It helps also that Hill always seems to bring out the best in his collaborators; Elena Casagrande’s art is stunning, with brilliantly choreographed action sequences and creepy character designs when things take a turn for the supernatural.

It’s cool to see Blade venture outside of vampiric foes too, with more demonic antagonists making their presence felt in this series so far.

Though lacking the classic Blade-takes-on-an-army-of-vampires sequence that opened the first issue, as well as being shorn of the twists that set the plot in motion, we do at least have Blade taking on a helicopter in his underwear.

Can’t say fairer than that, right?

This is ice cool action at its finest, dripping with a confident swagger from both writer and artist. Blade has rarely felt better in the comics world than he does here; a far cry from the jive talking stereotype he was introduced as in the 70s.

Great stuff.