![]() Diesel is more god/movie star than man, and watching him defy death at every turn has become an internationally shared experience. We truly could have used the oiled hubris of Vin Diesel right now. Wash Your Hands: It’s pure coincidence that a movie about a man who can’t be harmed by anything drops at the height of a pandemic, but that’s the way of these things. ![]() All things considered, it could have been worse. For me, that was Bloodshot, starring Vin Diesel, an off-brand superhero movie based on a graphic novel about a super soldier who regenerates his flesh when you shoot him thanks to nano-technology. At a certain point, everyone will have to remember the last movie they saw before they stopped going to the movie theatres so as not to stoke their fear of illness and death. Fear of contracting the virus COVID-19 in the year 2020 meant that most public gatherings have been cancelled.īy the time you read this, most of the films you may have been anticipating have been yanked from release calendars, for fear studios will take a bath, opening films to empty houses. A strange finality sets in as events take a turn. In the midst of all this, landmarks and macabre ways to mark time. Disease and an election that seems fixed to keep the rich and powerful precisely where they wish to be. Every day a new onslaught of panic and paranoia, erasing the one from 24 hours before. Keep scrolling for a closer look at preview images of the internal pages, or Click Here to jump right to the score.The Pitch: It may be tough to remember a time before the present moment, considering the speed at which information, most of it catastrophic and unsettling, moves now. We conclude the issue with extreme steps to regenerate, an engineering lesson, and a piece of cherry pie. It’s never explained why, but the image of an innocent boy creates an instant air of sympathy when the “boy” expresses fear and sadness as a child Bloodshot is powerless to protect during the fight. Meanwhile, Bloodshot’s nanites start projecting an image of Bloodshot’s “son” during the trip to Howl. Freed from his prison, Hader returns home and takes up residence in Howl’s abandoned auto manufacturing plant. Unfortunately, a flaw in the mech’s design led to catastrophic brain deterioration, leaving Hader unstable and extremely dangerous. As part of the military’s super soldier program, Hager’s brain was salvaged and placed in the body of an advanced mech, heavily armored and loaded with weapons. The nanites are correct.Ĭaptain Bill Hager was a military fighter pilot shot down in battle. We begin with Bloodshot heading for the town of Howl, Michigan, where his nanites have concluded an unexplained outbreak of radiation poisoning is connected to one of the defective super soldiers Bloodshot is tasked with hunting down. ![]() Keep scrolling for a closer look at the covers, or Click Here to jump right to the story description with some spoilers.Ĭheck out our BLOODSHOT: UNLEASHED #1 review to find out how the titular character started this adventure. It doesn’t happen often, but when it happens, the stiffness sticks out like a sore thumb. However, there are a few action panels where Bloodshot looks stiff and posed rather than in motion. The character renderings are deceptively detailed, and the action (once it gets going) is big and loud. On the whole, Jon Davis-Hunt’s art is phenomenal, especially in the hyper-violent and gory moments. The minor down point in this issue is related to the art. What should be loud, crazy, action scenes, reminiscent of RoboCop 2 (1990), take on a deeper emotional meaning when Bloodshot’s psyche is at odds with his actions, begging him to stop and run away. The memories are meant to act as a form of psychological manipulation, but even though Bloodshot knows the projection isn’t real, the “boy’s” pleadings and fears are not less poignant.īloodshot acknowledges the “boy’s” presence only long enough to explain his presence to the reader, but you can’t help empathizing with the emotional struggle the “boy’s” presence imposes on Bloodshot. The most surprising aspect of Camp’s script is the inclusion of a holographic “son” that only Bloodshot can see, courtesy of implanted memories projected by the nanites inside Bloodshot’s body. This time the super soldier is nothing more than a brain encased in a uber-tough mech, and Deniz Camp delivers a story that offsets the over-the-top action with healthy helpings of heartache and delusion. BLOODSHOT: UNLEASHED #2 is a trippy story that messes with Bloodshot’s head as he faces off against the next defective super soldier unleashed on the world.
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