BLADE Crescent City Blues #1 p33 GENE COLAN Signed 1998 Brother Voodoo MARIE LAVEAU Witch Queen of New Orleans

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Pencils by Gene Colan and inks by Mark Pennington. Signed by Colan at bottom right.

Deacon Frost has taken over New Orleans’ Mafia…and Marie Laveau is his wing woman in evil! Dracula’s reign as Lord of Vampires takes a dangerous turn- one that involves the capture of Blade, Hannibal King, and Brother Voodoo!

Blade realizes he's the last vampire hunter. And his hunt takes him to New Orleans, where Deacon Frost, the one who killed his mother and the reason why he was born an orphan, has become the new lord of vampires.

Blade goes to Jericho Drumm, the Houngan (Voodoo priest) also known as Brother Voodoo, for help. Marie Laveau, the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, has joined Frost and believes her powers are now stronger than Brother Voodoo's. When she summons Damballah-Wedo, great snake lover, God of the water and heaven, the Loa (voodoo god), under the form of a gigantic boa, turns against the Witch Queen of New Orleans. The powers of Brother Voodoo, protector of the city, were stronger than the supposedly immortal sorcereress.

Due to her prominence within the history of Voodoo in New Orleans, the real Marie Laveau has inspired a number of artistic renditions. Countless popular songs have been written about her, and she's a recurrent character in novels, movies, television series (including Neil Gaiman's American Gods). She first appeared as a Marvel comics character in Dracula lives #2 (1973, by Roy Thomas and Gene Colan).

Panel 1 Brother Voodoo, Panel 2 Marie Laveau, Panel 3 Blade, Panel 4 Vampires