Those familiar with Deathstroke as a character inform me that this issue “sucked.” One close friend issued forth a steady stream of expletives about the new costume, complaining especially about the shoulder pads and finned gauntlets. To be fair, however, this is a character whose costume has always been blue and orange spandex and who previously wore buccaneer boots. The costume change is, at worst, a lateral shift.
As a reader completely unfamiliar with the character, aside from his occasional descents into pure villainy in books like Batman & Robin, I rather liked the book. Writer Kyle Higgins explores the character’s nature a little further than I personally have seen in the past. Slade Wilson, Deathstroke, is a man whose livelihood depends not only on his skills but on his reputation. A challenge to that reputation, due in part to the Deathstroke’s age, seems to be the fuel that will propel this book along, moving forward. For now, however, Deathstroke has a mission to complete, which he does in unique fashion over the course of 20 pages that can be read as a neatly contained done-in-one, a format that has been sorely lacking among DC’s 52 re-launches so far.
If I have one minor complaint, it would be the McGuffin: Pulp Fiction called and would like its mysterious briefcase back, please…
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…okay, seriously, what’s in that briefcase?
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