Deathstroke #24 - "Defiance, Chapter Four"

[laughing_tree]

Deadpool has now grossly overshadowed Deathstroke nearly to the point where Deathstroke seems to be the parody of Deadpool and not the other way around. My challenge is to fix that. I’m not competing with Deadpool, but distinguishing Marv Wolman’s brilliant work from the echo that’s overshadowed it through a kind of creative deconstruction of the villain aesthetic. -- Christopher J. Priest

Comments

[cyberghostface]

He may have started as a knockoff but I'd say the Deadpool that has become the icon that he is has very little in common with Slade.

[icon_uk]

Other than both are mercenaries and that Deadpool's name of Wade Wilson is some sort of sideways reference to Slade Wilson, I never really felt Deadpool was a Deathstroke knockoff, a murderous Spider-Man knock-off yes, but not Deathstroke. (Designwise Deathstroke is definitely a Taskmaster variant since George Perez designed both)

Deathstroke was a character who was an assassin, and had some sort of ethical code and a whole life outside of killing people for money. Deadpool was an assassin who talked too much. Not really seeing much in the way of similarity.

[lizard_of_aus]

"Fifty years later, they're now called White Lotus. It's code for 'people you absolutely don't want to screw with under any circumstances'."

Just ask the army occupying Ba Sing Se.