BLOODSHOT: Issue 2
Waking up inside a body bag is no way to start the day.<br><br>But that’s where you are, and worse yet, you’re 35,000 feet above the desert, guarded by the some of the toughest soldiers on the planet. You’re being flown back to the people who created you, who may have even betrayed you. You’re having a hard time separating your false memories (of family, duty, country) from the grim reality (of bullets, blood, screaming). Who’s really on your side? Why were you created? Where does the “real you” end and the programming begin? There’s only one way to find out – by reaching up and zipping open this bag. And God have mercy on anyone who comes face-to-face with the weapon – no, the man – no, the soldier – known only as Bloodshot.
Waking up inside a body bag is no way to start the day.<br><br>But that’s where you are, and worse yet, you’re 35,000 feet above the desert, guarded by the some of the toughest soldiers on the planet. You’re being flown back to the people who created you, who may have even betrayed you. You’re having a hard time separating your false memories (of family, duty, country) from the grim reality (of bullets, blood, screaming). Who’s really on your side? Why were you created? Where does the “real you” end and the programming begin? There’s only one way to find out – by reaching up and zipping open this bag. And God have mercy on anyone who comes face-to-face with the weapon – no, the man – no, the soldier – known only as Bloodshot.
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Project Rising Spirit has sent its walking weapon of mass destruction, an operative known as Bloodshot, into Afghanistan to<br />
eliminate a young super-powered girl that is working with a known terrorist cell. However, Project Rising Spirit purposefully<br />
withholds that information, instead allowing him to believe that he is going to save an old war buddy named Apanewicz.<br />
Due to radically advanced nanites in his bloodstream, Bloodshot possesses higher levels of strength and speed than a normal<br />
human, can heal from virtually any wound, communicate with computer machinery and morph for limited periods of time. Those<br />
abilities enabled Bloodshot to make short work of the terrorist cell, but he quickly discovers that it was all a setup. A former<br />
PRS scientist named Kuretich manufactured the scenario in order to capture Bloodshot and download the details of his past<br />
missions from his brain.<br />
In the process, Kuretich reveals to Bloodshot that Apanewicz isn’t real. That PRS has implanted false memories of lives, families<br />
and friends into Bloodshot’s head, and it uses these memories to motivate him. PRS knows that Bloodshot will kill anything<br />
it points him at if it means protecting the ones he loves.<br />
Kuretich makes his escape, and before Bloodshot can begin to wrap his mind around this traumatic revelation, he is blown<br />
apart by PRS operatives sent in to collect him. What PRS doesn’t realize, is that the world’s most dangerous military operative<br />
now knows the truth…and is no longer under its command…<br />
WRITER: DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI<br />
ART: MANUEL GARCIA with ARTURO LOZZI<br />
INKING: MATT RYAN<br />
COLORING: IAN HANNIN<br />
LETTERING: ROB STEEN<br />
COVER ART: ARTURO LOZZI and ANDY BRASE<br />
ASSISTANT EDITOR: JOSH JOHNS<br />
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: JODY LEHEUP<br />
EXECUTIVE EDITOR: WARREN SIMONS<br />
<strong>BLOODSHOT</strong>® #2 published by GRAPHIC INDIA PTE. LTD, 28 Bukit Pasoh Road, Yee Lan Court, Singapore-089842,<br />
under license from Valiant Entertainment LLC. For sale in India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore only. Copyright © 2012<br />
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