Marvel’s Blade is Getting a Badass New Lead
Marvel’s Blade is Getting a Badass New Lead
This past weekend, thousands of comic fans gathered in San Diego for the 46th Comic-Con International. Guests roamed the main exhibit hall, saw exclusive sneak peeks for their favorite shows and movies, and attended panels filled with esteemed authors, illustrators, directors and more. This year’s Women of Marvel panel happened on Sunday, the last day of Comic-Con, and was filled with women panelists “from multiple disciplines in the creative process at Marvel.” During the panel, Sana Amanat, a Marvel editor, announced a new Blade series—and it has us pretty excited.
For the first time, Blade will feature a woman lead. Amanat explained that the main character is a teenage girl, Fallon Grey; she’s the daughter of the original Blade, Eric Brooks.
Discussing the new series, writer Tim Seeley described Grey as “a 16-year-old girl who has some of his [Blade’s] powers…she has more elevated abilities than he does.” Illustrations from the new series depict Grey as athletic, with dark hair and skin (and a cool leather jacket)—just like her dad.
Seeley continued:
My goal was to sort of create this anti-Peter Parker in that she’s not a loser, not a nerd, she’s super popular [and] the expectations on her are very high. I think those are great characters to tell stories about. So she’s sort of dealing with those people who think she’s perfect, and some day[s] she’s trying to save the world, so she’s dealing with all of that pressure as opposed to the lack of expectations.
He also revealed that there are plenty of crazy new monsters for the father-daughter duo to fight.
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