754. Bloodshot 2012 #2 ... #Valiant ... #Nano

[This is posted on 2nd Dec 2017]

Honestly, we have just checked and found that we started posting this blog in 2013 and we are technically in our fifth year now! Whoopty doo! So while we have experimented with the year as volume 1, 2 and 3; we think it makes more sense to make the entire review using the original numbering and hence the testing every now and then to revert to original. Kinda like Marvel comics, eh? Hahahaha

And now we touched back on Valiant

For those not in the know, when Valiant was launched in its original run, while it is a comic, the characters within are definitely not your typical superheroes. In fact, we are inclined to think of them as stories but told using graphics. Case in point: Bloodshot is a chap with great skills who somehow got nanites injected into his blood making him this pale looking chap with  blank like eyes and a red splotch on his chest. He has tremendous healing abilities as a result of the nanites and on top of that can do lots of other stuff. At no time does he suit up in spandex and he goes out on missions like super spy or super commando. See?

So in this relaunch, in issue 2, we continue where the tale left off as we are given an origin of sorts for Bloodshot.

Our man Bloodshot wakes up tied down in a plane while his mind keeps on seeing pieces of potentially his past and some ghostly images keep talking to him. Throughout the issue he is not sure if these are his memories or real ghosts or the nanites in his blood but he learnt the hardway or rather everyone else learnt the hardway that a confused Bloodshot is a dangerous man as he broke away from all that was keeping him down, literally don't give a fuck to the bullets and killed every single soldier onboard the plane bringing it crashing down

While on other fronts, we see as usual scientists and other high-ups going about their shady business with experiments and potentially other more grisly or deadlier models that we know are just going to get released into the wilds, so to speak

By the end of the book, all you will know is that it reads very well, drawing the casual reader into its unwinding mystery and with every detail they divulge, more seems to be coming forth thus making us want to continue to issue three. The only sad bit is with the state of the comics industry most are reading online or TPB. So hope Bloodshot can garner good support

And as for the art? Damn! Awesome!

Ratings: 7/10