Channel Surfing: The Dead Walk!

As we come to another week of Channel Surfing, I look at the latest episode of Blade, and talk a little about that "other" comic book show currently airing on tv. Let's get started!

Reviewed: Blade, Episode 6: Bad Blood
Special: The Walking Dead


Blade takes a dip in quality this week, becoming more ridiculous than I ever thought possible. Heading to Sumatra, the team meet a shaman who can magically turn water into vampire curing juice, and belittles him into convincing his work is worthless (even though it seemed to be working fine to me.)

After spending the first bit of the episode brooding over his dead mother, Blade and co. go to a vampire silver mine that they never explain the purpose for and fight a horde of Stretch Armstrong vamps. What? And the big bad of the episode is a guy that looks like a walrus that transforms into a herd of rats. What??

The battle over, the shaman leads the stretchy vamps into a lake where he cures them all with his never explained shaman powers, and then promptly bursts into flames and dies for no reason...and that's the episode in a nutshell.

I just found the whole episode to be way too over the top to take seriously, and that is a very bad thing when they are trying to make Blade a believable bad-ass. Not to mention the quest for Deacon Frost is quickly devolving into a "your vampire is in another castle" type of situation.

All in all, quite a disappointment compared to the last couple of episodes. I do have hopes for the next episode though, a journey to Madripoor. Yippee.



On another semi-related note, based on recommendations from friends I've decided to start watching The Walking Dead. I've never read any of the Walking Dead comics so I won't be able to do a comparison, but nevertheless I'll let you know what I think of the show once I get caught up.


And that's all I have to say about this week, just a little while longer until the launch of DC Nation, and the return of Young Justice! I'm looking forward to that, as should you.

Until next time comic fans, stay golden.