Deathstroke #22 - "Defiance, Chapter Two"

[laughing_tree]

I was minding my business, and Marie Javin from DC e-mailed me about Deathstroke. I went "Deathstroke?" It took me a minute but I had to go, "Isn't he that guy who fights the Teen Titans?" She goes, "Yeah." And I go, "He has his own book?" "For a long time now." I knew nothing. So I said, "Send me some of that and I'll look at it." I looked at The New 52 stuff and I looked at some stuff prior to and I got in contact with her and said, "I appreciate you thinking of me, but I can't write this."

And she said, "We're doing this 'Rebirth' thing, so if you were writing Deathstroke what would you do?" And I said that it would be interesting to me if I could do something introspective. Kind of "behind the mask," you know? Get inside his head a little and kind of treat him the way we treated Black Panther in a lot of ways, where people are speculating about his motives and what he's going to do, and he's always one step ahead of everybody. -- Christopher J. Priest

Comments

[ovaltinepatrol]

I think Slade's outfit is too busy, might be better if he ditched the cape.

[thosefew]

Is Dr. Light a rapist in this continuity?

[thanekos]

Doctor Light is villain enough to have an in with the (Secret) Society (of Super Villains), but his Trinity War " happily married man who became a ' hero ' and died " take is alluded to.

I love Priest's " Yes, continuity happened, but the character's this way now because that's the story I'm writing " approach to Rebirth!DC.

[zapbiffpow]

Slade needs his god damn twenty-four cents, Ambassador.

Also, looking forward to how Priest tackles the Secret Society! Forever Evil's Society felt like just another assemblage of villains. This one seems like a "Barksdale Organization does Robert's Rules of Order" kind of thing. And if it isn't, I wish it would.

[sarahnewlin]

Couple things

Where's the female Dr Light?

Deathstroke using the word tired seems ooc.

The guy who looks to be about to hug Jericho has Mr. Fantastic arms.

"Still a virgin?"