Deathstroke #27 Davis Variant

I've quietly been updating the various pages above with additional variant cover art and solicitation material, including the one for Rose Wilson. One of the covers I'd copied was of poor quality so while trying to find a higher quality one, I came across the variant for #27, by Shane Davis, as usual, and available next month. I believe I first saw it on Bleeding Cool. Enjoy!

Oh my...Deathstroke #21 solicitation

I have a feeling this will get a negative reaction because it will be taken a little too literally and/or seriously.

DEATHSTROKE #21
Written by CHRISTOPHER PRIEST
Art by DIOGENES NEVES
Cover by RYAN SOOK
Variant cover by SHANE DAVIS

*Includes a code for a free digital download of this issue. 

“DEFIANCE” part one! A new day has dawned for Deathstroke. Having emerged from the Speed Force a changed man, Slade Wilson takes aim at living a better life—a life in service of justice. But when the world refuses to accept the new Deathstroke, Slade recruits a group of young heroes to join him including including former Teen Titans Kid Flash and Power Girl, his children, Rose and Jericho, and the bombastic Terra! 

But has Slade truly shed his villainous past? And what other shadowy forces are working against him? Find out as Deathstroke’s bold new direction begins here! 

On sale JULY 5 • 32 pg, FC, $3.99 US • RATED T+#

The resemblance to the oft-copied cover Justice League International #1 can hardly be a coincidence.

And like very other time he has led a team, this will be short-lived, if he even truly "leads" them. Even the solicitation text questions Deathstroke's sincerity. It wouldn't be the first time he's had an agenda.

The thing of it is though...That's a pretty cool looking bunch right there. I'd buy the hell out of that book. Since Deathstroke's own title is being reduced from being published twice a month to only once, maybe that team could complement it. Unlikely, since most of the characters are unknown but perhaps if the premise is good...

Dreaming, I know. But while the image does pack a jolt at first sight for a long-time Deathstroke fan, with a few minutes to take it in, it certainly has me curious.

Cover image and solicitation text first spotted on bleedingcool.

Deathstroke's Who's Who Page

Taking a few minutes to post something I just came across in a seldom-used folder on my computer.

I don't believe the original scan is mine, but I also don't recall where I got it. I do know I cleaned it up some; straightened it, sharpened it, that sort of thing.

Open the image in a new tab to see a larger, easier to read version.

For those joining us late, in 1985 released a series of fact sheets about all its characters in a book called Who's Who in the DC Universe and this is Deathstroke's entry at the time.

Note that he is only referred to as The Terminator here, as opposed to Deathstroke. So since the characters were displayed alphabetically, Slade's profile was not include until volume 23, cover dated January 1987.

I don't know if this is a coincidence, but using the Terminator name specifically meant that Terra's fact sheet was next to be displayed in the book alphabetically.

Terra had an...interesting...relationship with Deathstroke, infiltrating the Titans for him in a story that eventually built up to The Judas Contract. It's considered a classic Titans story and it was during that era that Deathstroke truly came into his own. A great deal of detail was provided about his background, family, etc, including the introduction of his son Joseph as Jericho. Deathstroke evolved beyond being a standard gun-for-hire character.

It also included Dick Grayson adopting the Nightwing identity so the story's impact was felt for quite some time.

Unfortunately, much of that background has since been unraveled and Slade's history is now a cluttered, nonsensical mess, but that's a rant for another day (probably several more days, in fact).