Slade has been hired to put himself in the middle of a family feud in a distant nation where they are destined to kill each other. Now, is up to Slade to put an end for this conflict one way or another.
Here we go again, this is the book that simply refuses to end. Since the beginning when this title was written by Tony Daniel and later James Bonny, it completely denied any opportunity to tell a compelling story with a complex or at least accurate characterization for the protagonist and instead devolved in simplistic and derivative action scenes and stupid portrayals.
But hey, we have Phil Hester here instead and it makes me wish we would have gotten him since the launch of the book.
Hester does something that we haven't seen in a while, an actual good characterization for Deathstroke. He's smart, competent and actually speaks like an experienced warrior instead of the dumb fratboy from previous issues. Not only that but the writer also manages to include his complicated relationship with his son in this story where he has take care of a young apprentice and the themes that connect both scenarios are nicely executed delivering a much deeper insight about the character.
The plot is also solid with the family feud being nicely integrated into the themes while also executing a nice twist at the end. The action scenes are also perfectly paced.
Mirko Colak and Roberto Viacava share the pencils and their work is really good looking with good looking characters and impressive fight scenes.
Quite honestly, this is by far the best story we have seen from this volume and is pretty disappointing that Hester is not doing more work about the character.
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