Shit had an aesthetic that reminded me of bleach, and the few comics we got were shockingly more mature than what I was expecting. It’s rare to see a marvel character that is: competent in combat regardless of whether they have powers active or weapons present, have a no nonsense attitude that comes to wasting time, preaching, or holding back in a fight, and genuinely not need any transformations/plot armour/power ups because their strength is implied from the get go with the idea that they train off panel independently. It also meant that the comic writers got to write Eric as a character dealing with far more mature subjects on self acceptance, subjective cases of heroism, and loneliness that I wasn’t expecting to see from a small standalone series of comics on what amounts to a minor character reduced to cameos in various animated shows and video games. Blade reminds of me of spawn, Goku, and wolverine in that sense. Wish we got more of him.