
Art by Peter Richardson
Blaze Fielding is one of the main characters from the Streets of Rage series in Sonic the Comic. Alongside Axel Stone and Max Hatchet, she has starred in every story.
History[]
Blaze was once a hard-working member of the police service until good friend Axel was attacked by corrupt officers. Along with Max, she handed her resignation in to Captain Wyndam and visited the gun store in order to start cleaning up the streets. After attacking Ziggy and the Ken's Korner Shop protection racket, Blaze accompanied Max to The Safe House, a 24-hour drug factory, to destroy it. She later visits City Hospital to talk to Officer Murphy after hearing Max has been captured. She asks for his help but is aggressive when he refuses to leave the force with a wife and kid to look after. Instead, she accepts the offer of a police tracer and starts harassing her informants for the possible whereabouts of Max. After going through fourteen of them, Blaze finally finds him at a foundry but is captured before she can call for help. Inside, Hawk assaults her and is about to shoot her when Axel bursts into the building. During the confusion, Blaze manages to fight back and escapes with Axel, just in time to see Murphy drop an incendiary bomb on the building with Max and Hawk still inside. Max makes it out with his life, although Blaze once again lays into Murphy for not joining them, calling him a "disgrace".
Some time later, Blaze returns as the driver of the Battle Wagon, giving someone a call (although we never find out who). Soon after, the three of them capture corrupt officer Rizzo in order to find out Mr X's plans and discover the plot to blow up the Princess Grace. On board, Blaze and Axel are present during Mr X's "concerned citizen" speech, but she isn't listening, praying that Max finds the device before it detonates. When Skates finds it and says he'd rather kiss Blaze than Max, she states that he couldn't handle it. Once the second bomb goes off, she urges Skates not to kill the crime lord.
During a routine mission, Blaze entraps a gang into fighting her when they believe she is just one lone woman in their territory. With the help of her friends, Blaze fights off the thugs but is arrested by corrupt police officers. When a rookie learns that they plan to kill her, the scared officer unlocks her handcuffs and allows them to go free.
When the gang become the subject of a bet by Mr X, Blaze is the first to demonstrate to the gang members that it is not wise to take her on individually. When a group of motorcyclists attack, she swiftly kicks one of them off their bikes at speed before they are all rescued by a helicopter sent by Blaze's old partner Feroccio. After that vehicle is destroyed, she has to fight more gang members before witnessing Axel be "killed" by an elite ganger. Fortunately, she sees that Axel has survived the fall into East River and successfully convinces friend and foe that he is gone. When Mr X reveals the nature of the bet, Blaze hands over a safety deposit key with access to twenty thousand dollars. This act keeps Mr X's soldiers distracted long enough for Axel to rescue them. The four then barely make it over East River, losing the Battle Wagon in the process. Despite this, Blaze survives and goes to pick up her winnings from the new Mr X. Axel suggests they use some to buy a new car, but Blaze has other ideas, since it was Axel who crashed it in the first place.

Character[]
Blaze is the only woman in the crew and uses this as a way to entice gang members into attacking her. Inside, she is a ruthless brawler with many agile moves that can take out "slow and flabby" crooks with ease. When she's not fighting, Blaze is extremely hot-headed, eager to rush in and save Max when he is caught in a flaming warehouse. She's also eager to insult those she believes to be cowardly, calling Murphy a "loser" when he refuses to quit his job.
Appearances[]
- Issue 1 - preview
- Issue 6 - Control Zone
- Issue 7 to Issue 12 - Streets of Rage
- Issue 7 - cover
- Issue 25 - cover
- Issue 25 to Issue 30 - Skates' Story
- Issue 41 to Issue 46 - The Only Game in Town
- Issue 41 - Battle Wagon feature
- Sonic the Poster Mag 7 - Facts of Life, cover and pin-up