Unity #8
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The good
Great action sequences giving a taste of the coming battle between the armor hunters and Earth's forces. Effectively sets the stage for interesting story developments
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The bad
Bloodshot doesn't get to see any action. Ninjak and Gilad lack of planning
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The ugly
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Unity #8 continues the Armor Hunters storyline and opens up in what was once Mexico City but now a smoldering ruin due to the armor hunters setting off an explosive device in the middle of it. This wasn’t the case a week earlier when Livewire was questioning people all over, including the inhabitants there, about Bloodshot in order to learn his whereabouts, and after some time she finally got a lead to follow. Her goal was to recruit him to be part of their team knowing all the stories about him, the black ops missions he went on, and true to his reputation, Bloodshot got the drop on Livewire before she even saw him. He could tell she wasn’t a trained killer so he gave her some time to explain herself, and somehow she was able to appeal to the angels of his better nature and successfully recruited him knowing he was seeking to do good for some time. However this story isn’t something that Ninjak cared to hear in his current situation, which was flying in a plane with Gilad to the secret underground bunker the armor hunters attacked. And that was due to the fact that it wasn’t a normal flight, nor were they planning on a landing since they were in violation of Russian airspace, and they needed to focus on the task at hand, jumping out the plane and using the crash as a diversionary tactic. Livewire tells them that their purpose there is to gather intelligence on the armor hunters attacking and not to engage, and their secondary mission is to retrieve a spare armor since the technology has yet to be shared with them. But Ninjak and Gilad have their own plans and that’s to deal out some revenge against the invaders but are they underestimating them and jeopardizing what is possibly the best opportunity to gather information on what M.E.R.C. will inevitably have to face?
SUMMARY
Unity #8 is an enjoyable issue that brings the characters into the Armor Hunters event in an exciting way, and gives us a taste of the inevitable confrontation between the armor hunters and Earth’s defenders. It’s slightly perplexing that the hunters wouldn’t grasp that killing an entire base of soldiers without warning wouldn’t necessarily be about defending the armor but about not being killed but that sets up an interesting angle that can be explored during the event when others learn how destructive the armor can be. And overall this issue just made me more excited for things to come, and raises my hopes for the crossover event.
Release Date: 6/18/14
Writer: Matt Kindt
Artist: Stephen Segovia
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