Deathstroke's past has been chasing him during all his life and now he will have to confront his own mistakes once that he needs to rescue one of his old allies.
Okay, people who have been reading my recent thoughts about the character will realize that I absolutely detested the last Deathstroke volume due to Tony Daniel and James Bonny's poor writing that consisted of simplistic stories and bad characterization that portrayed Slade into a derivative dumb action hero. Now, is up to Christopher Priest to fix the damage, does he deliver in that regard?
Well, thankfully he does.
Since the beginning it seems, like most usual Deathstroke stories, that the writer is implementing the character's past to play with present time. We see some glances of Slade's time with his children and this contrasts nicely with what happens to him in the main story. More importantly, we get the feeling that Slade's job as a mercenary wasn't actually what made him a terrible father, he apparently ALWAYS was a terrible father. This presents an interesting plot-point that could be explored in a compelling way.
The dialogue helps to sell the idea and characterization due to its natural and engaging nature that delivers all the important notes without feeling like overexposition. It was also good that the writer takes a few shots at the last volume by making fun of Slade's young again period.
If I have a complaint though, is that he uses the Clock King and is sadly not the recent reinvention from Green Arrow but actually another version. I suppose the writer didn't do much research.
Carlo Pangulayan is in charge of the pencils and his work is beautiful with attractive characters and intense action scenes.
Quite good beginning. Definitely interested in what's going to happen.
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