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It's a story that'd stand on its own without the use of familiar characters and also one where that use isn't perfunctory or gratuitious.

It's a spinoff of the supertitular Elseworlds, one that acknowledges the connection in only a caption. It's set in Jarnlund, islands blighted by the subtitular condition for twenty-one years.

Issue #1 opens on Vandar Adg of the Vandal clan (sometimes called " Savage ") taking Svartfjell with the help of the mercenary Slade.

After that, Slade wanted his pay and to go.

" So swift to depart? " asked Vandar. " After so many years away? "





(Slade still kills - just not indiscriminately.)



(" Allwinter " is constant snow.)



Coin changed hands and Slade was off.



(The " loss of color " is a little more than " forever winter means there's grey slush everywhere. ")



After a bit where Slade got one up on Caitlin, they arrived at Dødsrev.



They leapt at the cloaked below - Caitlin with the power that had her called " Killer Frost " and Slade with the skill that had him called " Deathstroke ".



Caitlin sent an ice shaft into Adeline's shoulder - and Slade sent an axe into Caitlin's shoulder.



" Vandar will h-have your head for this betrayal! "



" Now get yourself gone, Caitlin. "

She and Vandar's others left, leaving Slade with Adeline and Alec - Alec whom Caitlin'd identified as " the beast ".



' Black blood on his skin. '



(His name is Alec, he's framed as opposite to Allwinter, the temple he's found in is a place where " they still remember the [G]reen ", and that fur on him looks like moss.

He's not a complete replacement for Jericho - Slade's kids are in this. Issue #2 mentions " Joseph and Grant " and features Rose.

This is almost 8 of 24 pages from the main story of July 2024's issue #1 - there's a backup story that's unrelated to this.

Writing's fantasy author Jay Kristoff, art's Tirso, and letters're Wes Abbott.

Publisher's DC.)

Date: 2024-09-09 03:16 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] blueprintstyles
Aaaahh now I get it, I thought my laptop wasn't loading the colors.

Date: 2024-09-09 03:16 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] superfangirl1
The illustrations in black and white really relay the bleakness of winter and viking aesthetic of this version of Deathstroke. Vandal Savage is the same tyrant in any universe. I guess.

Date: 2024-09-09 08:06 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] dan_ingram
To be fair, most everyone who loves a few thousand years is gonna get tired of hearing people say such entitled things as "I don't want my throat slit!" or "Why are you conquering us?"

Date: 2024-09-10 05:56 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] leahandillyana
Wow, this really stands out as its own story and the black and white aesthetics are a clever use of the medium!

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