Image Comics’ Blood & Thunder #16 Review: Blood Breaks In to Bring Thunder Home

Image Comics’ Blood & Thunder #16 Review: Blood Breaks In to Bring Thunder Home Blood & Thunder #16 is in stores now from Image Comics, and Benito Cereno and E.J. Su turn Blood’s search for Thunder into a fast, funny, surprisingly thoughtful sci-fi jailbreak packed with sentient weapons, corporate policing, artificial intelligence, and one very determined alien heroine. One of the best things about Blood & Thunder is how difficult the series has become to reduce to a single genre. It started with the energy of an action-heavy science-fiction buddy comic, but the series has steadily grown into something stranger and more ambitious. Beneath the giant guns, alien worlds, criminal organizations, and explosive action is a story increasingly interested in identity, institutional power, prejudice, friendship, technology, and what happens when supposedly disposable creations begin questioning the people who own them. Blood & Thunder #16 embraces all of those ingredients. Written by Benito Cereno, illustrated by E.J. Su, colored by Msassyk, and lettered by Rus Wooton, the latest chapter picks up the momentum from Blood’s confrontation with the IPPF and turns the focus toward...