Deadshot - part 5 of 5

[espanolbot]

Sorry, should be fixed now.

Floyd hears about the team of supervillains hired to kill him, and realising that he might die, he tries to spend as nice a day as possible with his new family...



That night, after Michelle and Zoe have gone to sleep, Floyd suits up and heads off to fight the bad guys, realising that as long as he's there, they'll keep coming for him and put his family in danger.


Fighting ensues...




Soon after, the heads of the three gangs meet, and it appears that although there was a dead body next to the remains of Deadshot's mask, they're not sure that he's actually dead. One of them says that it doesn't matter whether he is or not, all that matter is that he got in there way and now everyone THINKS that he's dead. With the newly gentrified area suddenly attracting a lot of rich people to the neighbourhood, they decide that there's no money to be made in the area anymore anyway. They declare a truce, with the area becoming neutral ground between their three territory.

Meanwhile, it seems that Floyd's agreements have stuck, with both a higher police presence in the area, Green Arrow showing up more often, and the charitable foundation set up by Floyd's parents donating a sizable chunk to Zoe's school.

News of Floyd's death doesn't reach everyone at the same time though, such as Michelle's landlord...


The series closes out with Killer Frost, an assassin and friend of Floyd's meeting him for a new job, and commenting that something seems different about him, and asks whether anything changed with him lately. His response? "Not a damn thing..."

And that's that for the Deadshot miniseries, though Michelle and Zoe were referenced in Secret Six etc. later on. I don't think that they exist in the new DCU though, like so many. Probably makes Floyd look too old or something.

Anyways, up next on my summary tour of the more obscure: Baltimore - the Plague Ships!

Comments

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

Actually, Deadshot does have a daughter in the DCnu. But like everything else, the relationship there is vastly diffetent from the traditional Deadshot relationship.

[squirle]

These pictures aren't working for me either :(

[protogarrett]

Apologies, but all I see are ?-boxes. =(

[randyripoff]

Getting a "403 Forbidden" error on the images.

[sir_razorback]

Deadshot didn't appreciate the ending and killed your links.

[blackruzsa]

.... D: Still none

[funbox]

I've found that if you click on the box, which brings you to Imgur where the picture will show, and then click page back, it shows up on scans daily :)

[darth_cloudo]

It worked! :O

[eyz]

awwww...
I can't see those pics :/

[espanolbot]

Should be fixed now.

[eyz]

Hooray! :D

Loving this series!
Has it been released as a TPB?

[hybrid2]

I see nothing!

[espanolbot]

Argh. :( I'll see if DW's image posting service is working properly. I can see 'em fine though is the problem.

[drexer]

Out of curiosity, what if you do this:

<img src="http://i.imgur.com/S0RDW.jpg"> <img src="http://i.imgur.com/tauSW.jpg"> <img src="http://i.imgur.com/hdABR.jpg"> <img src="http://i.imgur.com/miJi3.jpg"> <img src="http://i.imgur.com/EvgIT.jpg"> <img src="http://i.imgur.com/Zbr3U.jpg"> <img src="http://i.imgur.com/cxGEs.jpg">

Instead of the default code? It works for me, though it might be a local artifact.

[espanolbot]

I did use that. :( Trying photobucket again, though I seldom use it as it randomly decides to say I'm using too much bandwidth or somethin'.

[randyripoff]

I was really expecting some fridging, and I'm happy to see that wasn't the case.

[espanolbot]

Nope, Michelle and Zoe survived right up until the Reboot erased them. :)

[blackruzsa]

Oh ): But Zoe and Michelle think he's dead? That's sad. So sad.

[espanolbot]

He does make contact with them later on in one of the Secret Six storylines, with Zoe even knowing that Floyd is her dad and all (whether Michelle and Floyd chose to tell her or Gail Simone forgot that they deliberately didn't tell her as they didn't know whether he'd be staying around or not, I can't say)... only for his new family to promptly get attacked by a supervillain sent by someone. Vandal Savage or Lex Luthor, I can't remember.

[blackruzsa]

.... scans? :)
I miss Secret Six. And I'm curious.

[espanolbot]

Found the trade, and I'll post the bits with Floyd's family in a bit. Oddly it seems that Michelle's name is now Susan and she and Floyd evidently got married at some point between the mini series and SS. Zoe's still Zoe though.

This is also the trade where he slept with Scandel's girlfriend. So yeah, mistakes where made.

[riddler13]

Was this collected?

[espanolbot]

Nope! This was when DC was notoriously bad at collecting their storylines (for example, their series Hardtime only collected the first half, about a third of Cass Cain's series was left out of the trades, etc. etc.).

They seem to be doing better now, in their omnibus collections of Gotham Central, No Man's Land, Starman and the like, so maybe it'll be collected, I don't know.

Still kind of pissed that they didn't collect the last few storylines of Sandman Mystery Theatre to be honest. Seriously, just like two more and the series was over, ending the collections with the story they did was a terrible idea!

[riddler13]

Well, I'll have to track those down. Unless you want to sell yours... ;)

[filthysize]

This mini was soooo good. Thanks for reminding me to crack it open again with these posts. It was Christos Gage's first comic book work, so I didn't really know anything about the creative team at the time. I bought it when it was coming out just because I love Deadshot so much, I missed Suicide Squad, and Secret Six did not exist yet.

I remember going up to Gage at Wondercon's DC booth all those years back and he didn't have anybody lined up for him, so I got to talk to him for a while about him entering comics and expanding the Deadshot mini into an ongoing. That never happened, sadly, but luckily Secret Six came along.

[riddler13]

Must have been really cool. He must've loved the attention! :)