Summary

Warning : spoiler for Marvel Zombies : Black , White , & Blood # 4 ahead!Daywalker vampireBladehas always endure by a simple code : save man , kill vamps . However , he ’s cheat his vampire - hunt mission - because now the lamia are the only I keeping world alive . As he says in the latest effect ofMarvel Zombies : Black , White , & Blood , " Zombie globe make for some strange - rear end bedfellow . "

TheMarvel Zombiesanthology serial has explored many stories about whatMarvel heroes would survive the zombi spirit apocalypse- and how . In ' Strange - Ass bedfellow ' by Steve Skroce and Brian Reber , Blade assume a stab at keep mankind , and himself , alive . However , the two most powerful groups left both see humans as food , so Blade has sided with the one that at least hold humanity active - Dracula ’s Vampire Nation .

Being immortal means he has the time to trust for an end to the zombie threat , and that the homo he ’s brought to the vampires as " stemma cows " will live to be free one solar day . However , for the forseeable future , Blade is n’t just countenance lamia to live- he ’s actively helping them feed on humans .

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MARVEL ZOMBIES : BLACK , WHITE , & BLOOD # 4(2023 )

' unusual - Ass Bedfellows '

Blade Is Feeding Humanity to the Vampire Nation

The Zombie Apocalypse Is Enough for Blade to Side with Dracula

Upon his arrival at the Sanctuary , Dracula says something really chilling : " Excellent , Blade ! You ’ve impart us some families ! " An inversion of his usual methods , Blade is now delivering entire caravans of people correct to the vampires ' threshold . He hat himself for start the entire compound , but accommodate he does n’t see another way . In many ways , The Sanctuary is a genius thought - vampires have money , resources , and power , but they want humans . Meanwhile , the humans necessitate protection from the unstoppable zombie horde . Vampires have a vested interest in humanity ’s natural selection , meaning their goals are aligned with Blade ’s - something even he admits .

This is n’t the first time Blade and Dracula have been fraught allies . As part of the Avengers , Blade reveled in helping them wipe out vampires . When Dracula formed the Vampire Nation , however , the Avengers assail would have been an act of state of war . Blade entrust the hero team and insteaddeclared himself the Sheriff of Vampire Town , establishing that he would act as law enforcement against any vamps that stepped out of line . Even in his current solo serial publication , Blade asks Dracula for helptraining him to be able to take on the villain Adana . For someone whohatesvampires , Blade keeps receive himself on their side .

Blade’s Morally Gray Ethics Make Him a Survivor

Blade Operates on a Fundamentally Different Timeline to Other Heroes - He Can Afford to Wait

The major idea of theMarvel Zombiesseries is that the most straightforward heroes become automaton . Their genius mind , impregnable body , and superpowers are nothing in the brass of the horde . Blade says he was n’t like them because they were inspirational figures , and he ’s an exterminator . That mindset undersells the good he ’s done in the world , but it also open him up to very unlike solutions . Someone like Spider - Man might go down fight , but Blade finds a way to dwell - and to volunteer others the same debased survival of the fittest . By betraying his lamia - trace military mission , Bladeis countenance that someday , " the rose of humankind will bloom once more " - however , is that really a justification for feed generations of man to Dracula ’s army ?

Marvel Zombies : Black , White , & pedigree # 4is usable now from Marvel Comics .

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Marvel Zombies: Black, White, & Blood #4 Page 10 - Dracula and the vampires have set up a cozy fortress for the zombie apocalypse, and welcome humans

Marvel Zombies: Black, White, & Blood #4 Cover

Blade (left) and Dracula (right) smiling in Marvel Comics

Marvel Zombies: Black, White, & Blood #4 Page 4 - a panel of zombiefied Daredevil, Spider-Woman, and The Thing