Review: Bloodshot: Reborn 01
I'll admit it, I wasn't into Valiant Comics before the genius move by the staff at Comic Book Illuminati to hold an all week event celebrating the old and the new versions of the Valiant super-heroes. I kind of always thought I would like a few of them but never jumped until it was in my face. One of the first books I picked up was Bloodshot: Reborn by Jeff Lemire and Mico Suayan. To say that I was blown away is a bit of an understatement because I just wasn't expecting much.
Bloodshot appeared to me to be one part Wolverine one part Punisher. Characters I love but only when written with at least a little nuance and depth. The blood splashed 90's violence-fest was not what I was looking for but what I expected. Then I noticed that Jeff Lemire was on this book and well, I knew that it had to be something different.
Jeff Lemire, the writer who resurrected Animal Man for The New 52 and the better issues of Justice League Dark? On a Valiant book? Turns out this wasn't his first rodeo with Valiant but I'll get to that in another review. Here Bloodshot has lost all his powers and has become lost in the day to day struggle of remembering what kind of a killer he used to be.
Plagued by hallucinations of his dead superheroine girlfriend and a cheeky cartoonish sidekick of himself he sets off to stop what looks like a copy-cat killer in Colorado and that's where the issue pretty much ends. In Just a few short pages I was hooked. Issue 2 can't come soon enough, and honestly I'm glad I was wrong about Bloodshot because this is my new favorite monthly.