Deathstroke #23 - "Defiance, Chapter Three: Like Father, Like Daughter"

[laughing_tree]

If you’ve ever had a deaf friend, you know that reading an email from a deaf person is no different from reading an email from any other person. That was a revelation for me and it changed my way of thinking about my deaf friends, many of whom I’d stupidly regarded as either less engaged or even less intelligent. They’re not. They’re informed, perceptive, brilliant. They are funny. My prejudice had been depriving them of much of their humanity. By allowing Jericho to speak mechanically, I’ve been able to explore the character in greater depth and have him emerge as a more rounded character capable of realizing a much greater potential. -- Christopher J. Priest

Comments

[shadowpsykie]

ha! slade on the justice league (I mean it's BEEN done... but still)

I admit... this is still intriguing.... though Adelaide as a racist is weird... seems they can't decide on her.... Joey as Bisexual/Omni Sexual is pretty cool.

[sarahnewlin]

Joey is everything I ever wanted. Justice for getting shafted in the 80s by the higher ups

[ruhig_knight]

Or better yet justice for most of the 90s, 00s, and early 10s where higher ups REALLY screwed him over. And that's just counting the mainstream comics.

Which reminds me to get ready to get back into Arrow or at least whatever episodes he's in.

[cainofdreaming]

He could bunk with Lobo.

[full_metal_ox]

Rose and Joey seem to be receiving a similar parental lecture, albeit on different topics: "PICK A SIDE!"

[ruhig_knight]

The racist accusation doesn't make much sense when she remarried a black man in this book... unless like most moments in his book it will be elaborated somewhere down the line

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

I like Priest, but it's so odd that he has Deathstroke lecturing Rose about using an ethnically appropriate sword...because reasons?

[long_silence]

How often do people give Slade crap for using a katana?

Apparently the lesson is that white people can use a katana if it looks cool but Asian people can't if they aren't Japanese

[full_metal_ox]

Slade: "Look, everybody! I know that different Asian cultures exist!"

Rose: "Cool story. Still identity-policing."

(And then you have Mr. Sulu swashing his buckle around with a Musketeer's rapier...)

[thanekos]

" Reasons " for ~80% of the stuff Deathstroke says in this series're generally " needle the person he's talking to ".

[reveen]

I don't understand stand how there are days when she DOESN'T hate Slade. He's very lucky he's carrying some recessive gene that correlates to endlessly putting up with abusive bullshit or she would have stabbed him at the first opportunity.

[caivu]

Any issue where Slade gets badly injured is a good one in my book. Fucking asshole.

[remial]

I didn't even question why Slade was stabbed on the cover, I just automatically assumed "yeah, he probably had that coming..."

[cainofdreaming]

About that, though, doesn't it look like the sword went through his... err... rectal section on the cover to anyone else? It's not just me?

[reveen]

I dream of the day where Rose and Jericho recreate the printer scene from Office Space with Slade's head.

It'll never happen, because Deathstroke seems like a writers pet character for the entirety of DC at times, but still.

[katefan]

Can somebody please explain to me what happened to the real Power Girl?

[scorntx]

She's having Wacky Hijinks with Harley Quinn.

[long_silence]

She went back to her home planet and left her money and codename to Tanya

[katefan]

...

Please tell me you're kidding.

[long_silence]

Okay technically not her home planet, that's still Krypton.

But she did go back to Earth-2 alongside Helena Wayne. And since she was planning on leaving the universe permanently she decided to leave the worldly possessions she had acquired on Earth Prime to Tanya

[katefan]

First of all, thanks for answering my question.

Second, a big middle finger to whatever editor decided to deprive the DCU of the one true Power Girl. For God's sake, what was wrong with having a slightly over developed sexy super heroine? Where's the harm in that? Who was she offending?!

[long_silence]

At the time comics weren't deprived of Karen though. This was years ago, the Earth-2 book was struggling and without a JSA book Power Girl wasn't really doing anything on Earth Prime. So they decided to send her and Huntress back to Earth-2 to try to increase sales where they joined that book. And she remained part of that book and it's subsequent relaunch until it was canceled.

She hasn't appeared since then but that's more because DC didn't really know what they wanted to do with Earth-2. With the JSA's return being hinted at throughout Rebirth she may return later down the line, but if she doesn't I don't think that will have anything to do with Tanya and more to do DC with not wanting to dilute the Supergirl brand