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.