Violence, gun battle, singing inappropriate songs whilst driving a tank and the sort of quips you would expect from the “Merc with a Mouth”. With all the noise in play throughout the book, the character loses any nuance that he had in the Reborn books, where angst and driven are replaced by loud and jokes! I appreciate that Seeley may be writing for a different crowd with this book, but I can’t help but feel disappointed by a writer who has previously excelled in delivering strong character pieces. Tim Seeley has been around, across a range of publishers, for quite some time now. Following his run on the Injustice books, he was my dark horse to replace Tom King on Batman. Here divorced from the need to keep things mainstream on one of the worlds most iconic and recognisable characters, Seeley gets a chance to let loose a tad, and let loose his does. From the outset, the book is extremely violent with gunfire splashing around in all directions. Ironically, in trying to possibly distance himself from the DC cast he has previously worked with, his plot and writing feels more like Deadpool. Granted, there is no fourth wall breaking, but the rest of the tropes are all there.
The most technologically re-made man since the Six Million Dollar Man is back in Bloodshot #1 from Valiant Entertainment. Set in the almost present day, this book is far removed from both Bloodshot Reborn and the recent Free Comic book issue that served to whet the appetites of Bloodshot fans everywhere. So how does “yet anther start” stack up?Īs the book opens, we get a scene that is meant to seem somewhat relevant to today’s refuges laden world. Step up”wage warriors” as they look to protect food and supplies from those that dare to need it the most. Enter Bloodshot a guy with a gun and a ton of nanites running through his body as he seeks to support those in need of help. But this is only part of the story as it seems that Bloodshoot is being hunted in much the same way the A-Team or Airwolf were back in the day. At least the latter of those is considered military property in much the same way that Bloodshot is thought of, at least by some in the book.
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