The independent publisher Bliss offers always innovative releases for fans of superheroes including the universe Valiant comics. After the lockdown pause, outings have resumed in recent months. In this article, we offer columns on the outstanding comics released since the summer.
Bloodshot (Volume 2)
In line with the film, the series about this invincible soldier rushes towards action. Like the first volume, we find the same creative team with Tim Seeley on the script and Brett Booth on the drawings. Bloodshot has chosen to separate from his family while he completes his missions. Confronted with two secret groups Black Bar and the Burnts, he decided to side with these former secret agents to help the oppressed. The screenwriter denounces the excesses of science when it is at the service of the military-industrial complex. The reader has a pleasant reading time thanks to Booth's talent in each box and his hysterical layout. At the end of the volume, Blooshots Dayoff is the best episode of the volume because it has a strong psychological and narrative density.
Punk Mambo
Victoria is an English rebel who has become the magician of Punk Mambo voodoo but she remains an anarchist who must get drunk to act and whose reactions are most often unpredictable. This five-episode limited series is written by Cullen Bunn and drawn by Adam Gorham. The publisher added the one-shot Punk Mambo 0 written by Peter Milligan and drawn by Robert Gill. This volume deepens this character only crossed in other series. Victoria has become a cynic hiding her feelings who constantly seeks to remain free and rebellious. She is therefore an anarchist magician. This rather rare idea makes him a really promising character. Having to team up with Josef more respectful of the rites, the duo based on oppositions works very well. Through the praise of rebellion and this teenage character, this highly successful narrative is inherently punk. Punk Mambo is also an offbeat and horrific story about a very original heroine.
Killers
During World War I, the British secret service had established an alliance with a mysterious Japanese, the Jonin, allowing them to train powerful agents, the Ninjas. Each agent developed a different power by activating his ki, his inner energy. But the agents had rarely been able to reach retirement age, although some mysteriously disappeared during missions. These survivors are recruited by a red-haired girl wearing a suit. Shuriken says she is Jonin's daughter and older than she seems. Their former coach needs their unique talents to retrieve an artifact, the tears of the burning monk, in order to remain immortal. In exchange, he promises to make their dream come true. Given their old way of life, these agents don't trust each other – and rightly so because they betray each other. Killers is written by B. Clay Moore and drawn by Fernando Dagnigno. More than espionage, the screenwriter writes an action series reminiscent of the last relaunch of Bloodshot. B. Clay Moore fulfills the contract of an action series and extends the ideas of the Ninjak series but a sequel would be welcome to extend the tracks created at the end of the volume. These three comics offer a new vision of superhero adventures. Whether through action or a punk and feminist narrative, Bliss édition takes the risk of translating into France heroes and heroines who deserve much more light.
