I'm more or less enjoying the conclusion of the third volume of Deathstroke's adventures. The trade paperback version collects issues 17 to 20 of the series as well as the second annual. Somewhat surprisingly, the Rebirth issue is included as well. I suppose it's thrown in as incentive to continue to read Deathstroke beyond then end of the third series.
While there were a lot of cool elements to that book (Ra's Al Ghul and Red Hood, for example) too much of it seemed thrown together. I didn't care for most Rose's portrayal either, even understanding that she was being mentally manipulated. There was one good moment of Rose rising to her dad's defense, mind you. But aside fro that she come off as quite weak.
I've never been a fan of Joey and am still unsure as to when that name began to apply to him full-time as opposed to serving as his superhero identity. In any event, in this book, he seemed to develop new abilities whenever it suited the story (such as a force field at one point). He still had some ability to control mind, and even prevent mind control, but no body-merging as such. It was very inconsistent with past material (nothing new to the New 52) and not an improvement, in my opinion.
The current series has been phenomenal, however, and we now get to see what the cover to #10 looks like.
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