Obviously with Bloodshot, the first thing you see is that he looks cool. But from very early on with this series, you dialed in on how you wouldn't want be this guy. The pitch of what makes him a potential superhero is so energizing, and I think it's something that the average person can understand and grasp. I think that's kind of always been his appeal. When you put them together, it's definitely something that I enjoy. He's got that sort of Gothic Revenant revenge story, but he's also got this big, colorful military story. I always kind of pitched the book as G.I. Brett really had a lot of fun designing from that vantage point everything should be tinged with a little bit of this body horror aspect. So, yes, everybody was excited about it at Valiant. I kind of thought that if we're gonna do this big run that was gonna essentially prepare the world for a movie, that new readers should come into that and see all kinds of new things to explore. Certainly, I wanted to use things that exist that people have attachments to and that added to his story, but I also wanted to fill it out. And also because I made up a lot of stuff, and I think there's a lot of value to adding to the mythos of a character who exists. Yeah, I think they liked that because it was a new angle. Was that pitch received well at Valiant, to find those angles and dig really deep into them? But it's through this filter that Bloodshot exists in this world of biotech weaponry. So, obviously there's vampires and there's ghosts, and there's all this other stuff like werewolves. The fact that he's essentially a high-tech Frankenstein's monster meant that it was easy for me to figure out what's the high-tech flip of other monsters. I was kind of picking up on some things that were there inherently and the body horror aspect of it. And for me, going back to the guy who read Bloodshot when it first came out and who has followed him throughout a lot of iterations, I think the things that work best with him were tilted towards the horror direction as well. I certainly have experience with superheroes and science fiction and fantasy stuff as well, but I think my attraction to stories is usually more on the horror side of things. Yeah, I think I'm a horror writer at heart, probably. Was that part of your initial plotting for Bloodshot, to make this story something that was not just paramilitary or science fiction but almost horror? From there, the story went in a way that I didn't expect. The first issue of Bloodshot made a really fun impact. I think I will be until at least when school starts, and I start teaching again. I was a little worried for the first couple weeks of this, but so far, I've been consistently busy. Most of my stuff is creator-owned, so I could kind of "heads down and keep going." And I was doing a lot of OGNs - I was doing two original graphic novels, and I was writing starting them, so those were six issues each worth of content. Tim Seeley: The only thing I was working on that kind of got delayed was Bloodshot. Screen Rant: Everyone's been waiting for Bloodshot, but even if circumstances were different, I don't know how much you would be leaving your home right now. RELATED: Bloodshot is BLADE, Not Iron Man For Valiant's Movie Universe With the follow-up now in sight and set to arrive in comic book shops this September, Screen Rant got to speak with Seeley about the delayed cliffhanger, embracing the horror of this one of a kind hero, the next stage of his adventure, and more. Zombie soldiers, blood-sucking beasts, and two towering kaiju, just to name a few. Those who read the previous issue of Bloodshot #7 know the stakes have been raised beyond all previous marks, with Bloodshot's enemies unleashing the worst nightmares imaginable upon the world.
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