Bloodshot #1 is something of a backdoor nostalgia trip, one that is absolutely worth taking.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. Booth's art work has a very '90s vibe (which makes sense given his collaborative background with superstar artist Jim Lee), and he leans heavily into the aesthetic so many adult comic fans first glommed onto in their youth. Seeley's script is sharp, funny and lays out the stakes very matter-of-factly. He's cool, collected, thoughtful, and most of all, good at his job, much to the chagrin of the bad guys populating Bloodshot #1. This version of the character is very much an action hero. And while Bloodshot #1 doesn't immediately reach the same levels of greatness as the aforementioned "widescreen comics," it does set itself apart from the rest of the pack by hearkening back to what made those books work so damn well in the first place.īloodshot isn't the washed up, sad sack we met in Jeff Lemire and Mico Suayan's outstanding Bloodshot: Reborn. These books, more or less, built the framework upon which billion dollar film franchise rest. RELATED: Valiant Unveils Breakthrough's Future World Character Designs
This method gave use watershed titles like Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch's The Ultimates, Joss Whedon and John Cassaday's Astonishing X-Men and Grant Morrison and Howard Porter's JLA, as well as countless other iconic comic series from the late '90s through the early aughts, right up until the launch of the current comic book blockbuster film cycle we're currently in. Taking the premise of on action film and injecting superheroes into it makes for some of the best comic books ever created. Bloodshot #1 reads more like the cold open of a a high-octane summer blockbuster starring than it does a start of a new ongoing superhero comic. This is apropos considering Bloodshot #1 feels very much in the same oeuvre as Ellis' works, Stormwatch and The Authority, at least in terms of stylized action and plotting. RELATED: Bloodshot #1 Preview Teases the Super Soldier's Next Intense Adventure Bloodshot #1 is stylized with the save gusto of superhero comics that helped usher in the age of "widescreen comics," a term (and style of graphic storytelling) created by Warren Ellis. There is a certain tone writer Tim Seeley ( Grayson) and artist Brett Booth ( Teen Titans) strike that shrugs off the existential horror of being Bloodshot from weighing down the character too much.
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