Revisiting Spring Solicitations

I've been spending the evening filling some gaps in the various appearances pages and I noticed something that I thought was worth displaying.

When the March 2016 solicitations were revealed, Deathstroke's appearance in Green Arrow #50 was rather obvious, based on the cover (seen at right). He was scheduled to appear in the following issue as well.

The solicitation text mentions that two covers would be available for that book, however, and I failed to follow up for the other one.  I came across it while preparing to add Deathstroke's Green Arrow guest appearances to the "Vol. 3 ('14-'16)" page and now I regret not looking for it at the time because it's rather cool. It is displayed below.

And that something? Credit to Patrick Zircher.

Edit: I now believe the original cover was never used. The second cover should have been a Batman V Superman variant. Not sure why the change was deemed necessary.

It turns out that Deathstroke appeared in the last three issues (50-52) of Green Arrow prior to that title coming to an end due to Rebirth. The solicitation for 52 had not been included here so here it is below, even though the book came out in May.

Green Arrow is dead. Deathstroke has won, and now he's returning to the states to deliver Dr. Miracle to the man known as Blood Bag.

And in Seattle, the war between the Berserkers and the Patriots has led to the Wargs being rounded up and sent to internment camps—which sparks an uprising among the Wargs!

Green Arrow has become quite the rival for Slade so I look forward to getting my hands on those books.

On the flip side, the Sinestro series was deliberately ignored.

Deathstroke is said to appear in issues 17 through 21 and even shows up in the background on the cover to #19.

But a look at the preview material gives the impression that the appearance is limited to an occasional single panel or group shot and that Slade is not involved in the main story to any significant degree. He seems randomly thrown in.

Too bad. I had visions of a temporary "Sinestro Corp Deathstroke" causing misery (and fear, naturally) throughout that storyline but evidently that's not the case.