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Bloodlines #1 - Hostile Takeover

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The New Bloods are back in this six-issue mini-series!

It's a blast from the past! The New Bloods are back, and there's an alien parasite attacking the wildlife outside of Pine Ridge, which in turn, is attacking a group of partying teens.

Having barely any recollection of the New Bloods, which were part of a larger story that took place in a series of 1993 annuals, I don't remember much about the team, aside that they were totally '90s (tons of muscles, weird powers, and extreme attitudes). What writer J.T. Krul does well is deliver a fun story that gives the group a bit of an update for the 21st century.

The opening issue delivers what will eventually be the New Bloods team: Eddie, Haley, and Stu. The issue primarily follows Eddie, a young man with a physical disability that needs crutches to get around. By the end of the issue, without being around sunlight for quite some time, he changes into Loose Cannon, a super-strong, blue-skinned monster. The downside to the opening offering of this issue is that the reader isn't offered a whole lot in the way of what's going on with these powers or the fact that we don't see Haley or Stu with powers either. This first issue could have really benefited from a double-sized issue for a concept that isn't new, per se, but will feel foreign to a lot of new readers.

The downside to the opening offering of this issue is that the reader isn't offered a whole lot in the way of what's going on with these powers or the fact that we don't see Haley or Stu with powers either. This first issue could have really benefited from a double-sized issue for a concept that isn't new, per se, but will feel foreign to a lot of new readers.

On the artistic side of things, the team of V. Ken Marion on pencils, Sean Parsons on inks, and Andrew Dalhouse on colors works well for the revamp of these characters.The art has a very '90s feel, with a contemporary update, resulting in highly-detailed and flashy pages, with some interesting panel layouts. The action sequence at the end of the issue has a lot of great movement to it, and the reader will feel right in the moment here.

As someone who vaguely remembers the New Bloods, there weren't a lot of high hopes for this issue. However, BLOODLINES plays well to the reader's sense of nostalgia all while delivering a fun opening issue that revamps this team. It's lot a flat book, completely relying on people who liked this team over 20 years ago to buy it. The biggest downside is that it could have used some extra pages to really deliver the full story in one punch. It's big, bold, and will put a smile on older reader's faces. If you got some extra cash this week, give this book a shot.

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I'll give this a shot.

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Im gonna jump on this, i remember the series from the 90s

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nope

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I saw the first ... The Blue Hulk boy killed a mutant deer... It made me think of when Donna Troy kill the sons of the Amazons..It was not nice and do not want to see more.

The serie alerts you BLOODlines.. A bloody series, is not something interests me

This comic is not for me..

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Checking this out for Loose Cannon

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Ahahahaha, this comic was 90's as f*ck. It's stupid, but it's honestly the kind of stupid I can enjoy

If there's one scene that was bad in a way that I couldn't enjoy, it's probably the party scene with all the underaged drinking. I will say the art ain't bad (though it is trying very hard to be 90's so that can be a turn of for some people), and I liked the candy joke.

Other than that though I don't have many qualms about breaking my usually respectful manner, because for one thing, C'mon, they know full well what they're making, and also because I'm still saying I enjoyed it (granted in a so bad it's good sense). So yeah Bloodlines, super super 90's, and probably very self aware of that, but a nice little departure from the usual.

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Ahahahaha, this comic was 90's as f*ck. It's stupid, but it's honestly the kind of stupid I can enjoy

If there's one scene that was bad in a way that I couldn't enjoy, it's probably the party scene with all the underaged drinking. I will say the art ain't bad (though it is trying very hard to be 90's so that can be a turn of for some people), and I liked the candy joke.

Other than that though I don't have many qualms about breaking my usually respectful manner, because for one thing, C'mon, they know full well what they're making, and also because I'm still saying I enjoyed it (granted in a so bad it's good sense). So yeah Bloodlines, super super 90's, and probably very self aware of that, but a nice little departure from the usual.

I love 90s art.

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love the first also issue interesting fact Jeph Loeb is the creator of loose cannon and in his four 4 issue mini series loose cannon change his color from blue to red and after he goes to marvel Jeph Loeb took the same idea and he created the red hulk

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@redmanta said:

love the first also issue interesting fact Jeph Loeb is the creator of loose cannon and in his four 4 issue mini series loose cannon change his color from blue to red and after he goes to marvel Jeph Loeb took the same idea and he created the red hulk

Huh, that's really interesting

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I think more people would give it a shot if they have the first issue focusing on Anima instead of loose cannon

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A good first issue

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will there be the parasites? they were waaay more interesting then the metas

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If ever there was a concept that DIDN"T need to get a revival from DC, it was Bloodlines. I read the entire series, and it was bad. The simple premise was that characters would get bitten by aliens, become superheroes and then team up with existing characters in each annual book in every series being published by DC. The idea was fine in and of itself, but each annual followed the exact same template (new character established briefly, generic alien menace, new character bitten, old hero and new hero team-up, alien runs away), so it quickly became tired. Most of the stories felt very paint by numbers as if an editor mandated the writers to come up with something, and the writers pooped out the first thing that came to mind.

DC pushed these characters hard. Seven series and/or miniseries spun off from Bloodlines, and six of them failed hard. The seventh, Hitman, remains the only worthwhile thing to spawn from the entire series. None of the other twenty or so character amounted to anything. Most of them were killed off by Superman Prime during Infinite Crisis.

Also, Loose Cannon was used already in the New 52 as a pointless villain in an early issue of Teen Titans, so if they don't explain that, we have yet another continuity fail.

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I think more people would give it a shot if they have the first issue focusing on Anima instead of loose cannon

Is Anima in this? From the cover, I recognized Loose Cannon and Razorsharm. I thought the other guy might be Gunfire. Any other New Bloods in the mix? I just noticed after closer inspection that electric girl and invisible man are also present. Sparx and Argus?

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@redmanta: that maybe true in a way. But i know for a fact marvel has fooled around with the idea of a red hulk going back decades.