Blade #6 (2002)
The first arc of this series took the first five issues. This story is about a dead husband who comes back for his daughter…As a vampire. Blade is there instead and kills him.
The series ends with the mom/widow at a support meeting for victims of vampires. This looks to me like it is setting up another story arc, but instead the book is cancelled.
BLACK PANTHER #48-49 (2002): The Death of Black Panther
As it was released in 1998, this book was a critical smash hit but a sales laggard. I’m sure the fact that the lead was a black man didn’t help,…
Alias #15 (2003)
This crosses over with the concurrent Daredevil storyline–also written by Brian Michael Bendis–and features Jessica working to bodyguard Matt Murdock, alongside Jessica’s f-buddy Luke Cage. (Matt is trying to disprove…
POWER MAN AND IRON FIST #51-53 (1978)
Guess who drew this story? Ignore the stilted dialog and look at the art. Can you place it? It’s by one of the most distinctive artists of the 1980s. Mike…