Deathstroke the Terminator, on going ?

[JET ACE LOGAN]

Deathstroke is one of my favorite comic characters and i really wish DC would have him back in a monthly title of his own, especilly since he guests in a different title near every month and is one of thier foremost characters....


He is not an out and out bad guy, just a merc/ anti hero really, and his profile in the DCU has never been higher thanks to the titans being back and his daughter...

The recent one shot really wetted my appetie for more, anyone else fell the same?

[the-wolf]

I agree, one of my favorite characters when done right. Which is exactly the problem. DS is rarely done right. Even his original series went downhill after about the 2 year mark. I've always suspected editorial interference on a grand scale there. The character Wolfman had in the first 20 odd issues and the first story arc especially, was drastically different than the character we had by the end of that horrible "World Tour" arc. DS couldn't be a bad@$$, he had to become a good guy, see? Because no main character can be not a good guy. They ruined Azrael similarly. And after he was turned into a quasi-hero, he sucked.

Years later, he is revived, but writers, most notably that hack Brad Meltzer, turn him into a straight-up villain. A stock, cardboard cut-out, cheap, carbon-copy, boring, run-of-the-mill, unoriginal, dime-a-dozen villain.

So, until DS is returned to the mercenary with a unique sense of honor and complicated moral code I'd rather they just left him the hell alone and stopped overexposing him.

[JET ACE LOGAN]

I agree, one of my favorite characters when done right. Which is exactly the problem. DS is rarely done right. Even his original series went downhill after about the 2 year mark.



Your right although Steve Grant did some good stories in the later issues, his brief bi weekly run really stood out...........


So, until DS is returned to the mercenary with a unique sense of honor and complicated moral code I'd rather they just left him the hell alone and stopped overexposing him.

I feel the same but i thought the last one shot by David Hine was good and handled the character quite well, plus his relationship with Rose his daughter is an interesting one............

[titanfan]

I'd welcome a Deathstroke series, if only to bring Slade back to the character he used to be instead of the character he's become lately.

Plus, even though Adeline and Wintergreen were killed off, he still has an interesting supporting cast with Rose and Jericho still alive. He's got a rogues gallery consisting of both heroes and villains from Geo Force to Cheshire.

[JET ACE LOGAN]

How did Adeline die please?


i can't remember that..............

[Personamanx]

I'd give it a read. I like Deathstroke overall.

[Taskmaster]

How did Adeline die please?


i can't remember that..............

Starfire killed her in a mercy killing in Grayson's Titans run.

I'd definitely be interested in a real return by Deathstroke instead of the cookie cutter villain we've had since Identity Crisis.

[JET ACE LOGAN]

I'd definitely be interested in a real return by Deathstroke instead of the cookie cutter villain we've had since Identity Crisis.


It seems to be the consensus that a return to Slade being his old self is what is needed here, I just wonder how that would fit in with his relationship with Rose and with the rest of the Titans..........................

[DeTroyes]

The current Deathstroke? Not so much.

The old Deathstroke from his ongoing in the 1990s? Definitely.

I also wish they'd reissue that run in trade form. Good series.

[JET ACE LOGAN]

The old Deathstroke from his ongoing in the 1990s? Definitely.



Yea old Slade Wilson it is then,


Oh and well said about Vigilante by the way, the series is shaping up nice, and it is selling by the way, i think..............