It was thick and meaty. Needed to step back a few times, and read back and forth. Plus, it was awfully bloody. And riddled with death. A darned enjoyable comic. I liked how this started to focus around the Psiot kids - both with Harada and the escapees. And the Bloodshot Harada protocol was pretty exciting. On both ends. I liked the 'vomit' of nanites attacking Harada. A pretty cool idea to weaponize the interior of the machine Bloodshot and put him on the attack. Speaking of which - the way Harada kept referring to Bloodshot as a machine - and how Bloodshot's face essentially turned itself inside-out - and he kept attacking - awesome. The report of nine days in the future is really starting to pay off, too. It gives a nice perspective on the events - and I can see why everyone's headed to Vegas, too. Sweet. This kind of a comic - these little escapades off on their own - could really work as some kind of an ongoing series. It has legs. Also, the Crain variant is flipping fantastic.
I'm kind of mixed on this book.
On the one hand, it is another one of those possible path-changing issues that really gets thrown away by the book's end. It also shifts through art and style - and really changes itself. But on the opposite side, it really is a great exploration into the plausible use and abuse of power. How could a potential for healing wreck someone? When it is used for profit, of course. Trying to secure donations from wealthy benefactors - and getting only nine thousand dollars seemed scant. As a relatively middle class kind of guy, I would EASILY pay that kind of scratch to heal a few problems, but it was quite a few years ago, of course. The set-up and slow slide was nice - the only part that seemed overboard was the confederate within the group. Those thought bubbles often seem to go too far, but HOW MANY TIMES did he need to think that it was such a BAD idea? Other than that, the comic was well assembled - and pretty darned good.