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Sample file BLOODSHOT DEFINITIVE EDITION Sample file CAUTION Sample file WRITERS SETTING THE DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI WORLD ON FIRE MATT KINDT BLOODSHOT #1-4 ARTISTS THE RISE AND MANUEL GARCIA THE FALL ARTURO LOZZI BLOODSHOT #5-9 BARRY KITSON MATTHEW CLARK MATT RYAN HARBINGER WARS STEFANO GAUDIANO BLOODSHOT #10-13 MARK PENNINGTON CLAYTON CRAIN CHRISCROSS BLOODSHOT #0 COLORISTS GALLERY IAN HANNIN DAVID AJA MOOSE BAUMANN DAVE BULLOCK BRIAN REBER KHARI EVANS CHRIS SOTOMAYOR CLAYTON HENRY JELENA KEVIC-DJURDEVIC LETTERERS LEWIS LAROSA ROB STEEN ARTURO LOZZI DAVE SHARPE ESAD RIBIC MICO SUAYAN COVERS BY Collection ARTURO LOZZI KALMAN ANDRASOFSZKY cover art DAVE BULLOCK DAVID AJA ESAD RIBIC MATT MILLA COLLECTION BRIAN REBER FRONT ART: CLAYTON HENRY IAN HANNIN MANUEL GARCIA MICO SUAYAN DAVE BULLOCK EDITORS Special thanks WARREN SIMONS JOSHUA DYSART JODY LEHEUP JOSH JOHNS Collection ALEJANDRO ARBONA editor IVAN COHEN collection designer SampleSTEVE BLACKWELL file DAN MINTZ Chairman FRED PIERCE Publisher WALTER BLACK VP Operations MATTHEW KLEIN VP Sales & Marketing ROBERT MEYERS Senior Editorial Director MEL CAYLO Director of Marketing TRAVIS ESCARFULLERY Director of Design & Production PETER STERN Director of International Publishing & Merchandising KARL BOLLERS Senior Editor LYSA HAWKINS & HEATHER ANTOS Editors DAVID MENCHEL Associate Editor DREW BAUMGARTNER Assistant Editor JEFF WALKER Production & Design Manager JULIA WALCHUK Sales & Live Events Manager EMILY HECHT Sales & Social Media Manager CONNOR HILL Sales Operations Coordinator DANIELLE WARD Sales Manager GREGG KATZMAN Marketing Coordinator RUSS BROWN President, Consumer Products, Promotions & Ad Sales OLIVER TAYLOR International Licensing Coordinator ZANE WARMAN Domestic Licensing Coordinator Sample file Bloodshot® Definitive Edition. Published by Valiant Entertainment LLC. Office of Publication: 350 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10001. Compilation copyright © 2019 Valiant Entertainment LLC. All rights reserved. Contains materials originally published in single magazine form as Bloodshot #1–13 and Bloodshot #0. Copyright © 2012 and 2013 Valiant Entertainment LLC. All rights reserved. All characters, their distinctive likeness and related indicia featured in this publication are trademarks of Valiant Entertainment LLC. The stories, characters, and incidents featured in this publication are entirely fictional. Valiant Entertainment does not read or accept unsolicited submissions of ideas, stories, or artwork. Printed in the U.S.A. First Printing. ISBN: 9781682153406. DUANE SWIERCZYNSKI | MANUEL GARCIA | ARTURO LOZZI | STEFANO GAUDIANO Sample file “DUNK TANK” BLOODSHOT #1 WRITER: Duane Swierczynski ARTISTS: Arturo Lozzi; and Manuel Garcia with Stefano Gaudiano COLORIST: Ian Hannin LETTERER: Rob Steen COVER ARTIST: Arturo Lozzi ASSISTANT EDITOR: Josh Johns ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Jody LeHeup EXECUTIVE EDITOR: Warren Simons Sample file Project: ADVANCED NANITE CAPABILITY OVERVIEW Basic Information Medical Applications • A nanite is a robot the size of a nanometer or smaller. A singlei glel • Bloodshot’s nanites possess the ability to reconnect torn skin, human hair is 25,000 nanites wide. arteries, muscle tissue and nerve fibers; rebuild bone; and repair and • Bloodshot has billions of these microscopic machines coursing reconstruct damaged organs to allow for rapid and complete recovery through his bloodstream. These nanites are programmed to assist from extreme traumatic injury. Bloodshot with his various missions. • Nano-manipulation of physiological responses allows Bloodshot to • Biomolecular nanotech motors enhance Bloodshot’s strength, survive extended exposure to hostile and toxic environments, speed and reaction time beyond the limits of a normal human. including extremes of heat and cold, high atmospheric pressure, • Due to a nanite’s ability to create, manipulate and destroy matter low-oxygen environments and long-term lack of food and water. on a subatomic level, the true limits of Bloodshot’s abilities are • Sub-cellular repair capabilities restore and restart metabolic unknown. processes in terminally damaged tissue. MilitarySample Applications Possible Dangers file • Nanite implants expand the range of sensory function, extending • Although it is highly unlikely, hostile forces with their own hearing into the ultrasonic and sight into the infrared and ultraviolet nanotechnology could theoretically hack and reprogram the nanites ranges. Additionally, nanites can detect chemical weapons, inside of Bloodshot should he ever be captured by the enemy. explosives and radioactive emissions. • Some scientists fear that molecular self-assembly could allow nanites • The nanites’ full control over cellular structures allows Bloodshot to to replicate uncontrollably. The effect this would have on Bloodshot shape-shift or “morph” for limited periods of time. is unknown. • Neuron-nanite quantum interface allows Bloodshot to receive, • The aforementioned potential for nanites to self-replicate is also the transmit, and manipulate electromagnetic wavelengths and basis for the apocalyptic “Grey Goo” theory. This is the idea that frequencies and directly interface with and control electronic and self-replicating nanites mass producing uncontrollably could form an computerized machinery. ever-growing wave of “Grey Goo” that would devour all matter on Earth. Design: Rian Hughes Sample file Sample file Sample file.