Okay, Jeff, Jimmy and hopefully everyone else that sees this ... if you have not already, run out and grab the first volume of this new Bloodshot title. Then, as soon as vol 2 is released, run, don't walk, to your LCS (or online comic site
) and get vol 2.
I just finished reading the first arc of Bloodshot: Reborn issues 1-9 and it was fantastic. The art by Butch Guice is just perfect for this title. The writing, other than one small item that bothered me (I will explain when you guys get to vol 2) is also just great. Trying to humanize a killing machine is a hard thing to do, but this creative team, including the colorist, does an amazing job. I use to compare Bloodshot to being a mix between Punisher and Wolverine ... I no long feel that way. Bloodshot is Bloodshot. Period.
The only way this book could've been better, maybe, is if my favorite writer for this style of story, Greg Rucka, was the one writing. But who knows, I may not have enjoyed it as much.
Just a little bit of arc info below, so if you don't want to see it, just avoid ...
After the mini event "The Valiant", where the Geomancer "Kay" removed the nanites from Bloodshots bloodstream, Ray is human once more, but will the memory of the nanites be as easy to overcome as getting rid of them? Can Bloodshot avoid taking the little buggers back into his bloodstream? And what is with the recent killings done by madmen with white skin and a red circle on their chest? Wiat, didn't Ray have white skin and a red cir......
Yeah, this was awesome!!!
And long live Blood-Squirt - Bloodshot's tiny side-kick?