The effect is indelible, effortlessly communicating the intent of the scene in a way that “regular” lettering couldn’t quite match. There’s several scenes wherein a character is quoting Biblical scripture, and rather than have the quote as part of the standard word balloon, it takes the form of a torn piece of paper superimposed over part of said balloon. Tying into the meatier religious questions posed by this issue, letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou gets to pull of more revolutionary feats in defining what a letterer is for the new generation. All things considered, it’s a tough balancing act to pull off, but these two consummate pros make it look easy. This is, after all, a Bloodshot comic, and Camp knows it – as does the unstoppable artistic duo of Jon Davis-Hunt and Jordie Bellaire, who have the balancing act of going absolutely hog wild with the Texas Chainsaw Massacre of it all and depicting quieter, more nuanced scenes. But this is no dry Philosophy 101 course: action lovers, fret not, because there’s a ton of action, blood, gore, brutality, and more gore to get you through. Taking the above two paragraphs into account, there’s a lot to consider in this issue. Whereas Bloodshot focuses on relatively small-scale menaces, X-O thinks on a planetary scale, and isn’t afraid to casually weigh the greater good of annihilating whole worlds for the safety of the many. The nature of the infestation brings in Bloodshot’s old pal X-O Manowar, a fellow soldier who operates on a whole different level.
While Bloodshot criss-crosses the country hunting down super-soldier rogues, he stumbles onto an alien infestation in a small, unincorporated town desperate for something to cling to after a mining cave-in shuttered its only real source of employment. At what point does religion become delusion? When does faith become dangerous? Why do some of the pious remain faithful and good, while others turn to violence? These are some of the thorny questions writer Deniz Camp poses in another gore-drenched issue of Bloodshot Unleashed, A.K.A.
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