Writer Kevin VanHook calls it “science faction.” When he, Don Perlin and Bob Layton dreamed up the comic book character Bloodshot back in the 1990s, they wanted it to be a little bit different than other superheroes whose powers were sometimes rooted in the he-was-bitten-by-a-radioactive-badger school. “We always tried to have that grounding in reality,” VanHook tells The Post.
That grounding came from scientific publications they were reading at the time, and the character they spit out was a killer who’s infused with nanotechnology, making him superhuman.
Now “Bloodshot” is hitting the big screen Friday, and many of those scientific concepts from the comic book have been carried over.
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