Though still struggling with the Acclaim-mandated changes that changed the look and feel of Valiant when the video game company bought the comic book publisher, Bloodshot did a better job of recovering than some of Valiant’s other titles.

This next part of a storyline which saw Bloodshot taking on a dark ‘clone’, spawned from his nanite-infused blood, is another step on that road to recovery.

It’s easy to forget that just a few issues ago, the series was hitting an unbelievable creative nadir with some of the worst writing and art I’ve ever seen from a mainstream publisher; though this story heavily plays on a Spidey vs Venom type vibe, it’s goofy, action packed fun in a distinctively 90s comic book style.

It’s even wilder to see stuff like this occurring in Bloodshot when the movie, which arrived roughly a quarter of a century after this issue, decided to make its storyline so bland, generic and utterly forgettable, ignoring almost all of the decades of stories that it could have (should have, even) drawn from.

Does the series recover even further and get back to its previous high bar of quality? I shall continue working my way through the classic issues and find out!

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