Bloodshot's handlers have a problem: their valuable asset isn't quite the blank slate they'd hoped for, and keeps rejecting the false memories they attempt to implant into his mind. Can Project Rising Spirit recoup their losses and produce the perfect supersoldier at last - or is their new prototype at risk of being shelved permanently? Sensational writer Kevin Grevioux (Underworld) and comics legend Ken Lashley (Black Panther) delve deeper into the violent subconscious of Valiant's living weapon of war!
Hard to kill! When a walking weapon of war like Bloodshot goes completely missing, you need the toughest of the tough to do the dirty work of bringing him back. Luckily, Project Rising Spirit has just such a team at their disposal - a black budget strike force with capabilities no ordinary soldier could ever conceive. Enter...the H.A.R.D. Corps!
Arthur concludes that his benefactor is a cold-hearted villain and he may have something to do with his tragedy. After confronting him, Arthur realizes he's helpless to gain answers and he's also beholden to his benefactor to do his bidding.
Arthur now realizes that as a servant to his benefactor and his pain-killing drugs, he's become something he didn't like. He became a man who no longer had a sense of himself and who he was. He was an animal and a caricature of humanity; a monster inside and out. But is it too late for him to make a change or do drugs compel him to embrace his enslavement?