DC Comics
Deathstroke Rebirth
By Hervé St-Louis
August 16, 2016 - 14:30

DC Comics
Writer(s): Christopher Priest
Penciller(s): Carlo Pagulyan
Inker(s): Jason Paz
Colourist(s): Jeremy Cox
Letterer(s): Willie Schubert
Cover Artist(s): ACO, Romulo Fajardo Jr., Stephen Platt; Peter Steigerwald
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With no more family around, because he killed them all, Deathstroke reflects on his past with his rebellious sons as he is about to take a morally conflicted contract for an African dictator. But the target of the contract, the Clock King, has other plans for Deathstroke the Terminator. Has the Clock King found the one remaining family member of Deathstroke’s family?

Any comic series by Christopher Priest is an event and should be watched and read carefully. Priest often uses short hands but that’s because he’s writing at another level and expect his readers to follow him. He uses many here. Is it bad writing to write stories meant to challenge readers by withholding basic information about what the hell is going on?

The what the hell is going on is kind of clear. Whatever job Deatshtroke is on, it has repercussions on a much wider array of people than those we see at first glance. Priest tries to explain the effects of a simple kill in some remote African country on the American political landscape. He does not tell the reader how though. It’d the little details that are missing. For example, in other comics right now at DC Comics, it has been hinted that the current US President is Barrack Obama! Here, the President is a Republican. These are the problems I wish DC Comics’s editors would iron out.

Priest shows us a side of Slade Wilson that we never saw. Instead of the pathetic small kids that he failed to raise, we see brats that objet to his life and how he messes theirs. I like this take on Deathstroke. I have not read anything about Deathstroke in years so the reappearance of a character I thought was dead was a surprise.

I don’t know Carlo Pagulyan but I can’t wait to see more of his work on this series. He is a mature talent whose depictions of camping life, African jungle and a military attack were spotless and dynamic. This series is complex already. If that’s your kind of comic, you should start reading it today!
Rating: 8/10

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