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Bloodshot Bill's music is influenced by rockabilly originators like Charlie Feathers and Billy Lee Riley, but there's also a strong thread of blues and early rock in his music, and he's less interested in the polish or dress-up slickness of many latter-day rockabilly acts, instead tapping into the wild, organic sound of primal backbeat. I like having a separate artist handle those other pages for an instant visual flag, and the duo handle it well.A rockabilly wild man whose style leans to the grittier first-generation trailblazers of the genre, Bloodshot Bill plays raw, raucous music that rocks the house whether he's playing one-man-band style or with a combo backing him. Lozzi tackles the virtual reality world, and his slick, glossy art serves as a great contrast to the bumpy, textured real world that Garcia serves up. By the time he's done attacking soldiers and in an awkward, almost frantic hunch around their bodies, you can almost hear Bloodshot's heavy breathing as he re-orients himself. Garcia draws most of the book, which tackles the break-out scene in a way that moves swiftly and violently lots of short, horizontal panels that allow the fighting to accelerate quickly in just a couple of pages. Garcia and Lozzi's pencils look good here.

This is hardly an ideal life for anyone, and then some.

That's where the series gets another shot in the arm and starts to veer more into horror territory. They're a creepy spirit guide of sorts, and that's before we even get to the moment where Bloodshot learns just what he needs to do in order to be able to regenerate. By feeding Bloodshot information about himself that he consciously doesn't know, it gives them a direct line into the overall story. It would be easy to simply play the ghosts off as hallucinations, too, but Swierczynski goes for something more interesting than that.