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Blood Syndicate #8 (Nov. 1993):
“Demon Shade”
by Ivan Velez Jr., ChrisCross, Shepard Hendrix

Blood Syndicate #8

Title: “Demon Shade”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Nov. 1993

Publisher: DC Milestone Media
Written by: Ivan Velez Jr.
Art by: ChrisCross, Shepard Hendrix


16 characters in this story:

Character
(Click links for info about character
and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)
Religious
Affiliation
Team(s)
[Notes]
Pub. #
app.
Demon Fox Demon Fox villain
CBR Scale: D Chinese traditional religion
Demon Fox Tong
[Chinese mystical being; rival of her sister Kwai]
DC Milestone Media 8
Kwai Kwai (Nina Lam) hero
CBR Scale: M Chinese traditional religion
Asian; Blood Syndicate... 
[sister and arch-enemy of Demon Fox]
DC Milestone Media 29
Brickhouse Brickhouse (Marta) hero
  black; Blood Syndicate...  DC Milestone Media 40
Third Rail Third Rail (Pui Chung) hero
  Asian; Blood Syndicate...  DC Milestone Media 44
Boogieman Boogieman (Martin Berger) hero
CBR Scale: S Jewish
Blood Syndicate DC Milestone Media 44
Wise Son Wise Son (Hannibal White) hero
CBR Scale: S Black Muslim (Nation of Islam)
black; Blood Syndicate DC Milestone Media 59
DMZ DMZ hero
  black; Blood Syndicate DC Milestone Media 57
Fade Fade (Carlos Quinones Jr.) hero
CBR Scale: S LGBT
black; Blood Syndicate...  DC Milestone Media 56
Flashback Flashback (Sara Quinones) hero
  Blood Syndicate; Force Syndicate...  DC Milestone Media 53
Masquerade Masquerade hero
  black; Blood Syndicate DC Milestone Media 31
Blood Syndicate Blood Syndicate hero group
  [gang] DC Milestone Media 61
Dogg Dogg hero
CBR Scale: M uplifted animal
Blood Syndicate; dog
[normal dog made intelligent by Big Bang Q-Juice]
DC Milestone Media 37
John Wing villain
  Asian; Demon Fox Tong...  DC Milestone Media 5
Demon Fox Tong villain group
  Asian DC Milestone Media 4
Cornelia White Cornelia White supporting character
CBR Scale: U Nation of Islam
black
[Wise Son's daughter]
DC Milestone Media 7
Edmund White Edmund White supporting character
CBR Scale: U Nation of Islam
black
[Wise Son's son]
DC Milestone Media 7

Text on cover: "Introducing Kwai"

Summary from now-defunct webpage at http://milestone.luthor.com/comics_detail.asp?ID=66&:

Demon Fox tears apart the Syndicate. Wise Son is crippled. And the Demon Fox brings up the darkest secrets of each Syndicate member. We learn that Fade is gay. Finally Nina completes her transformation and comes to the rescue of the Blood Syndicate.