Bloodshot (comics)
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| Publisher | Valiant Comics |
| First appearance | Bloodshot #1 |
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| Alter ego | Angelo Mortalli |
| Abilities | nanite blood provides enhanced reactions, stength, healing factor,perception, cyberkinesis |
Bloodshot is the title character of a comic book series published by Valiant Comics. Bloodshot was re-launched (with the majority of the other Valiant Universe characters) under the banner of Acclaim Comics in 1996. Valiant Entertainment, Inc. is the owner of the Valiant catalog (including Bloodshot).
Bloodshot #1 sold approximately one million copies.[citation needed] The original series was written by Kevin VanHook and drawn by Don Perlin. The premiere issue featured the first "Chromium" comic book cover, which was thought to increase its collectibility.[citation needed]
The second series was heavily praised by critics as an "intelligent and bloody, action story with strong sci-fi themes." It was among the most popular books in the Acclaim comics re-launch.[citation needed]
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[edit] Story Synopsis
Volume one and volume two of Bloodshot keep the same core story elements with different settings and plots.
[edit] Volume One
Mobster Angelo Mortalli was framed by the Carboni crime family, forcing him to become a witness for the state. While under Federal protection, Mortalli was betrayed by his protectors and sold to Hideyoshi Iwatsu to become a test subject for Project Rising Spirit. Mortalli's memories of his former life were erased when his bloodstream was infused with microscopic computers called nanites. The empirically-enhanced man, now code-named "Bloodshot" escaped from the secret labs of Project Rising Spirit with the aid of Geomancer Geoff McHenry, completely unaware of his former identity.
A triumph of bio-engineering, his nanite blood gives him superhuman speed, agility, and healing powers. Bloodshot can also control electrical devices and access computers through physical contact. Unable to successfully recreate the "Blood of Heroes" (the nanite formula), the founder of Rising Spirit, Hideyoshi Iwatsu, sends his "Speedshot" warriors to retrieve it by defeating Bloodshot and taking his blood.
Their inferior nanite-spawned abilities, however, are no match for Bloodshot's,and they are defeated (issue #1). Not even the bionically-armored Harbinger Ax, who can talk to computers like Bloodshot, can prevail against Bloodshot's ferocity. Even so, the Blood of Heroes is too attractive a prize for Ax to stay away for long (issue #2). Bloodshot seeks out Mafia Don Benito Carboni to learn the truth about his own criminal past.
Later, with the help of the Eternal Warrior, Gilad Anni-Padda, Mortalli becomes involved with the British Secret Service and becomes one of its Secret Weapons, under the guidance of Neville Alcott. During that time Mortalli met Neville's daughter Jillian (who had formerly been enamoured of Gilad). Jillian transferred her desires to Bloodshot, and was able to win his affection. They had two children, but in the process Jillian herself became infected with the nanites.
According to Rai #0 (Bloodshot's first appearance), Bloodshot, along with many other of Earth's heroes, would mourn the loss of the hero Shadowman, who would die ridding the world of the Darque power in the year 1999.
According to Rai #0, Bloodshot would die on the moon in the year 2028 while saving an earth colony from renegade Harbinger Ax.
Acclaim Entertainment was developing a video game based on the character but the game was abandoned when Acclaim filed for bankruptcy in 2004.
Series Creative Staff Information: This section is for Volume one and lists those who contributed to the creation of the book. When repeated, only last names will be used.
0: (Note-this is not the actual first issue, but was released after the series proper had begun.) Kevin VanHook, writer and pencils/Dick Giordano, inks/Joe Quesada & Giordano, cover.
1: VanHook, writer/Don Perlin, pencils/Bob Wiacek, inks/Barry Windsor-Smith, cover.
2-3: VanHook, writer/Perlin, pencils/Chris Ivy, inks/Perlin & Ivy, cover.
4: VanHook, writer/Perlin, pencils/John Dixon, inks/Andrew Wendel, finisher/Perlin & Ivy, cover.
5: VanHook, writer/Perlin, pencils/Dixon, inks/Perlin & Kevin Knowlan, cover.
6-7: VanHook, writer/Perlin, pencils/Dixon, inks/Perlin & Dixon, cover.
8: VanHook, script/James Perham & Mike W. Barr, story/Ted Halstead, pencils/Rodney Ramos, inks/Perlin & Tom Ryder, cover.
9-10: VanHook, writer/Perlin, pencils/Dixon, inks/Perlin & Dixon, cover.
11: VanHook, writer/Perlin, pencils/Dixon, inks/Perlin & Pat Boyette, cover.
12-13: VanHook, writer/Perlin, pencils/Dixon, inks/Perlin & Giordano, cover.
14: VanHook, writer/Perlin, pencils/Dixon, inks/Perlin & Ralph Reese, cover.
15-17: VanHook, writer/Perlin, pencils/Dixon, inks/Perlin & Giordano, cover.
18: Rob Johnson & VanHook, writers/Andrew Wendel, pencils/Stan Drake, inks/Wendel & Giordano, cover.
19: VanHook, writer/Mike Vosburg, pencils & cover/Dixon, inks.
20: VanHook, writer/Vosburg, pencils/Dixon, inks/Vosburg & Bob Layton, cover.
21: VanHook, writer/Vosburg, pencils & cover/Mike DeCarlo, inks.
22: VanHook, writer/Vosburg, pencils/DeCarlo, inks/Perlin & Dixon, cover.
23: VanHook, writer/Vosburg, pencils/DeCarlo, inks/Yvel Guichet & Ryder, cover.
24: VanHook, writer/Vosburg, pencils & cover/DeCarlo, inks.
25: VanHook, writer/Vosburg, pencils/DeCarlo, inks/Vosburg & Michael Blair, cover.
26: VanHook, writer/Anthony Castrillo, pencils/Jim Sanders III, inks/Sean Chen & Giordano, cover.
27-29: VanHook, writer/Chen, pencils/Giordano, inks/Chen & Giordano, cover.
30-31: VanHook, writer/Norm Breyfogle, art & cover.
32-33: VanHook, writer/Chen, pencils/Giordano, inks/Chen & Giordano, cover.
34-35: VanHook, writer/Breyfogle, art & cover.
36-37: Mike Grell, writer/Brent Anderson, art & cover.
38-39: VanHook, writer/Chen, pencils/Giordano, inks/Chen & Giordano, cover.
40: Mark Moretti, writer/Jackson Guice, pencils/Mike Sellers, inks/Johnson & Scot Kollins, cover.
41: Moretti, writer/Paul Gulacy, pencils/Randy Elliot, inks/Johnson & Kollins, cover.
42-43: Moretti, writer/Chen, pencils/Anibal Rodriguez, inks/Chen & Elliot, cover.
44: Moretti, writer/Castrillo, pencils/Rodriguez, inks/Johnson & Kollins, cover.
Last Stand: Moretti, writer/Mike Zeck, pencils/DeCarlo, inks/Zeck & DeCarlo, cover.
45: Moretti, writer/Chen, pencils/Gary Martin, inks/Johnson & Kollins, cover.
46: Simon Furman, writer/Greg Boone, pencils/Brad Vancata, inks/Breyfogle, cover.
47-48: Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning & Moretti, writers/Grey, pencils & cover/Mike Witherby, inks.
49: Boone, writer & pencils/Charles Yoakum & Vancata, inks/Chen & Ryder, cover.
50-51: Moretti, writer/Chen, pencils/Ryder, inks/Chen & Steve Montano, cover.
[edit] Volume Two
Project Lazarus, codenamed BLOODSHOT is brought back from the dead using nanities. He exceeds all expectations, however, his memory replacement failed leaving him with a mix of downloaded memories and real ones from before his death. He knows one thing, he isn't the Col. Raymond Garrison that they want him to believe he is. Bloodshot escapes the government experiment that gave him back his life to find out who he is.
Bloodshot begins his quest by following the few memories he believes are true. They tell him that he was connected to the mob, a hitman possibly, and that his name was Angelo Mortalli. He wages a one man war in his quest for answers, taking on the mob, the police and his covert government creators. Lucky for him that the nanities in his blood (the ones that gave him life and regard him as their god and universe) also enable him to control every part of his body - his heart rate, breathing and even adrenaline levels to maximize his physical state. He can use these to make himself stronger, run faster and longer. He also finds that the nanities can repair tissue and heal wounds but that they need material to work with. Angelo can repair himself using tissue from another human, meat from a freezer or even a stray cat. He has become a living, breathing Frankenstein’s monster...and so much more.
[edit] Connections between Bloodshot and other Valiant characters
Generally speaking, the Valiant Universe is very coherent, and the characters from one book will often appear in another book, or references to other characters will be made. This is a regular occurrence even outside of crossover events.
For example, there is a very definite connection between Rai and Bloodshot. Bloodshot's silicon based, nanite powered blood flows through Takao Konishi's veins (The last Rai). It grants him some of Bloodshot's memories and all of Bloodshot's powers. More importantly, the entire line of warriors who were known as Rai were created by Grandmother in the image of Bloodshot to honor his heroism.
