Blade (film) has become the vampire hunter Blade. He raids a Los Angeles rave club owned by the vampire Deacon Frost. Police take one of the vampires to the hospital, where he kills Dr. Curtis Webb and feeds on hematologist Karen Jenson and escapes. Blade takes Karen to a safe house where she is treated by his old friend Abraham Whistler (Kristofferson). Whistler explains that he and Blade have been waging a secret war against vampires using weapons based on their elemental weaknesses, such as sunlight and silver. As Karen is now "marked" by the bite of a vampire, both he and
John Carik own flesh which give him protection from supernatural beings. In "Blade: The Vampire Hunter" #3 (September 1994) Dracula grabbed Carik by the wrist, the wards burned Dracula's hand and he was forced to release Carik. Although he never made an appearance in the "Blade" films or in "", many of John Carik's character traits are visible in the character Abraham Whistler. He was originally intended to appear in "," portrayed by Marc Singer, but this plan was eventually scratched. John Carik John Carik is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He was featured as