Bloodshot #12 – Review

By: Duane Swierczynski (Writer), Barry Kitson, Stefano Gaudiano (Artists), Brian Reber (Colorist)

The Story: Bloodshot, in search for food and proteins, gets ambushed by Kuretich as he is on the verge of death.

The Review: I didn’t have many positive things to say about the last issue. As the title is caught in the big crossover known as Harbinger Wars, it gave us a rehashing of events in ways that didn’t altogether made sense sometime. It was an example of a bad tie-in issue and was a rare misstep for a series that was giving its readers plenty of big fun and violent action for them to enjoy.

Thankfully, this issue makes amends for that latest one by propelling the story quite a lot as it gives us a focus on the character of Bloodshot. Here, we see just how exactly the character can move forward in its concept as we are given something that has been a long time coming for those that followed the title: the confrontation with Dr. Kuretich. In many ways, that character had been a presence in the book as he had been a thorn in the side of Bloodshot, always trying to manipulate him toward one goal or another. Here, we get to see them confront each other as we see Kuretich’s side of the medal.