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Showing posts with label Dan Jolley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dan Jolley. Show all posts

Friday, June 24, 2011

Comic Book Encounters: More Bloodhound

Bloodhound, no. 5, 6, 9, 10: Dan Jolley: I don’t have issue 4 of Bloodhound, so let’s jump right into issue 5, which opens with Clev already shirtless, injured, pursued by enemies, and hoisting a man over his shoulder. Typical. That man is Firestorm, a superhero, apparently, who has some lethal mind-bending powers. Also, he can engulf his own body in flames. I like him.

Firestorm and the Bloodhound seem pretty screwed; they’re trapped in an abandoned warehouse out in the boonies with nothing but a smashed-up cellphone. Meanwhile, Luis Salvador’s cartel is moving in on them.

But, of course, all is solved with a little of Clev’s blunt force trauma. In fact, similar climactic solutions occur in issues 6, 9, and 10, too.

Clev always seems to be embroiled in a one-sided battle, outnumbered and inadequately armed. Unless you count his actual arms, a pair of guns that should be registered as weapons of mass destruction. The man tends to punch to pieces whatever real-estate is in his vicinity. You could probably make a drinking game with all the instances of Clev emerging from a pile of rubble. Double shot if said rubble crushes everyone else to death, while Clev himself remains unscathed.

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Comic Book Encounters: Bloodhound


Bloodhound, no. 1-3, Dan Jolley and Leonard Kirk: The first issue of Bloodhound did not resurrect my faith in prison etiquette. The main character, Travis Clevenger, former cop and current prisoner, uses his beefy fingers to gouge out a fellow inmates eyeballs. The sockets spurt like a fountain, making it clear who th eponymous bloodhound is. Hint: it's the guy who is habitually coated in someone else's blood.

Clev is built like Dog the Bounty Hunter, with a worn-out face like Micky Rourke. He's released from prison so he can hunt a stalker with inhuman abilities. He is not subtle. When to men in a car are watching his motel room, he smashes a bathroom sink through their windshield.

If you like gratuitous violence and members of law enforcement who refuse to toe the line, you will love Clev. But more on him later. I've still got 4 issues to read, and I get the feeling that the rending of flesh will only escalate.