Deathstroke #0

[flint_marko]

Sorry for the triple post, but I just had to post this.

So Deathstroke #0 is basically Slade's new origin. The narrator is Adeline Wilson.

The whole issue is crap, but since I can only post four pages I'm going to focus on the stuff that pissed me off the most.

For starters, all this stuff basically contradicts all the stuff that Kyle Higgins did with Deathstroke's family. While I wasn't crazy about Higgins' run, it shows what a mess the New 52's continuity is.

The story begins with Liefeld basically retelling Deathstroke's origin from The Judas Contract. There's some crap about Slade being a member of the Team 7 group, but in Liefeld's defense that was something DC made him do and was one of the reasons why he quit.

So Slade gets married to Addie, they have kids, he becomes a mercenary, you know the drill.




So that's how Deathstroke lost his eye in The New 52. Instead of Adeline shooting him because he let Joey's throat get slit, it's some nameless mook.

Adeline says how Deathstroke and Grant took on the criminal underworld until Grant was killed, though we don't actually see him die.

In the present, Slade recieves a Hawaiian orchid, which was Adeline's favorite flower; someone is trying to send him a message.

Comments

[mrstatham]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

That first page. That fucking first page!

Does Liefeld actually KNOW what a gun looks like? They're not a SOLID FUCKING BLOCK, ROB. THEY HAVE MOVING PARTS AND TEXTURES AND STUFF.

I also like the 'losing an eye' page, which looks more like a rather severe incident with a bottle of Heinz.

[darkknightjrk]

"I also like the 'losing an eye' page, which looks more like a rather severe incident with a bottle of Heinz."

Yeah, I thought that was just blood splatter from his enemies until it was mentioned in comments.