Although the same broad ideas were carried over, more emphasis was placed on the weird science, going hard on the nanites and their relationship to Bloodshot. Bloodshot got a new, bolder logo the covers became more audacious and he received that most late-’90s of not-your-mom’s-caped-crusader accessories: a leather trench coat. Video game publisher Acclaim Entertainment acquired Valiant in 1996, and immediately began an edgy relaunch. The series ran right up to the ebb of the comics crash of the mid-’90s, to which Valiant was an unwitting major contributor thanks to its inter-universe crossover with Image, Deathmate - an unmitigated disaster due to Image’s inability to hold a schedule.
Everyone and everything is corrupt, right up to the climactic two-parter involving a double-dealing cop.
The sharp suits, criminal dynasties, and seedy underbellies of De Palma and Scorsese are the core of Bloodshot amid all the heightened violence and absurdist science fiction. Equipped with a samurai sword and handguns, and bearing a literal target on his chest, he’s a lone underdog in a world where a lifetime of service means little.Ĭreated by Marvel heavy hitters Don Perlin and Bob Layton alongside then-newcomer Kevin VanHook, the first run of Bloodshot is relatively paint-by-numbers superhero fare with some inflections from the gangster films of the previous decade. Escaping the facility, the once sociopathic, power-hungry mobster becomes dedicated to fighting evil and overthrowing abusive hierarchies.
A ruthlessly efficient hired gun for the mob, Angelo Mortalli is double-crossed and winds up on the operating table of the mysterious Project Rising Spirit, which erases his memory and replaces his blood with microscopic robots that can regenerate his tissue and commune with nearby machinery. Bloodshot joined as a cameo in late 1992 before getting his own series in 1993.Ī product of his time, the cybernetically enhanced killing machine embodies many of the archetypes popularized by the likes of Todd McFarlane, Rob Liefeld, and Marc Silvestri.
Starting in 1991, the initial lineup proved wildly popular. Preceding Image Comics, Voyager would create its own shared universe through Valiant Comics using talent and intellectual property gathered and poached from other publishing houses. After attempting and failing to buy Marvel Entertainment in 1988, former Marvel editor-in-chief Jim Shooter and a group of investors founded their own company, Voyager Communications Inc., with investment from Triumph Capital. Image: Duane Swierczynski, Manuel Garcia, Arturo Lozzi/Valiant ComicsĪs with many popular heroes of the time, Bloodshot’s roots start in a willful break from the big two publishers.
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