(B) 74% | More than SatisfactoryNotes: A hyper-violent onslaught, it seeps in just enough story to avert a bloody slog through the dank and wanton overkill.

Remember that movie, “Eight Heads in a Duffel Bag”? Me neither, but if that were the title of this volume and because of Deathstroke’s penchant for decapitating his opponents, they’d need, if not a bigger duffel bag, at least more of them. These pages are liberally splashed red with blood and epic violence, generally of the other guy getting stuck in some fashion on Deathstroke’s nasty sword.At least DC didn’t water down their treatment of unrepentant assassin Slade Wilson (aka Deathstroke) by l...

Slade Wilson is Deathstroke, the world’s greatest assassin, but he is aging and it seems his legacy is waning - he is no longer considered as deadly as he once was. Incensed, he sets out to prove the naysayers wrong, killing and maiming the competition and taking out impossible targets. But someone close to him he once thought was dead turns out to be alive - and wants his head! And his long list of enemies have decided enough is enough: Deathstroke must pay! Kyle Higgins delivers exactly what y...

Slade Wilson is a jerk. Let's be honest. He has put his desire to be the best warrior before everything. He will take on just about any mission just so he can achieve the recognition and accolades of completing the mission. It's not about the money.I found him hard to like. That makes it's difficult to root for a character when he's so insufferable. I appreciate how incredibly kickbutt the man is, but his colossal ego and the enormous chip on his shoulder ruins things for me.This is a very viole...

The New 52 hasn't impressed me. This version of Deathstroke basically takes away all of the stuff that made him an interesting character and now he's just a guy that likes violence.

I can't decide if I like it or not.On one hand, there's lots of action, violence, and gore.Yay!On the other hand, it's Deathstroke. So, it's not like you're actually rooting for the guy to win. Higgins' seems like a good writer, and I'd like to read more of his stuff.Just not his stuff about Slade Wilson.

OK stories if you like the dark emotions of a ruthless professional killer. Seems well-plotted and well-illustrated, just not my cup of tea.(So, I had this mixed up with Deathstroke, Volume 1: The Professional. Can you blame me? So many "volume 1" out there in DC-Land.)

I don't know who the Deathstroke fanboy was who gave the green light to this, but they should be fired.

I loved this book because: 1, Deathstroke is my favorite anti-hero in all of comic books (well tied with the Redhood) and 2, because this book ha a fairly simple but awesome story. The story goes that Slade Wilson (Deathstroke) is known as the world's best bounty hunter\mercenary and everyone knows it. But his reputation has faded through the years and people think he just isn't what he used to be anymore. And so he takes on a mission in Moscow, Russia with three other younger and much less expe...

Fun pulpy action with the requisite daddy drama that seems to always come with these narratives as it seems to be safer than having women in roles that aren't the victim.I'll stick to FPS's for my explosions and lack of women, but if it's your cup of tea to get that does of bad arseness in comic form, you'd probably enjoy this.That said, Higgins doesn't actually treat women that badly in this. Mostly it seems by avoiding them, but given what this kind of genre can be like that's not necessarily

I've been slowly, haphazardly backtracking my way through the New 52. I never really followed Deathstroke, so it took me a while to get to him. The story was a little hard to follow, some of the action sequences were hard to make out (Does someone throw a submarine at him in a fight scene? What the shit was going on there?) Anyway, this book collects issues 1-8 of the reboot. Deathstroke's a metahuman mercenary with a poor father figure. He is also a poor father figure himself. And the cat's in

This was a really enjoyable read. Deathstroke is an awesome character and this was action packed and gory. It felt like watching a cheesy action flick and I enjoy things of that nature. The artwork was well done and the storyline was solid.

When I originally read this book 6 months ago, I didn't find it special in any way. After reading it again I was surprised to find I enjoyed it a lot!This was one of the first titles I tried from the New 52, at the time it didn't really grab me at all. So little in fact that I still haven't bothered picking up the second and last volume 'Lobo Hunt'. Upon reading through it again I saw so many things I missed the first time round. Maybe it was because my knowledge of the N52 universe has been exp...

Deathstroke is the biggest a-hole in the DC universe, one of the deadliest villains right next to Joker, that the chances of getting killed by him just for standing near him is pretty high. Every thing I've read with him from Identity Crisis to Teen Titans makes me strongly dislike him. I've never read his series from the early 90's to see him as an anti-hero, to read this series in that way. I also don't like innocent (well maybe not innocent) bystanders getting killed for no reason, and this h...

An interesting read for someone who was unfamiliar with the character, Deathstoke outside teen titans. Very bloody and violent. They really emphasize the fact that he's enhanced, dangerous, and a strategist. The only problem is that he doesn't seem to strategize, and is more like a bull in a china shop. There are many times where he kills needlessly because he's trying to gain a reputation to get more money to get a better reputation and so on and so forth. His reason for all this is to be "the

Slade Wilson is Deathstroke a top assassin who's a bit past his prime. He's superpowered and has all the toys. When he feels he's being played with he slaughters his allies and goes on a hunt to find out who's behind it all.Someone took "badass" to mean "can kill everyone by running up and chopping their head off." Slade has no smarts or tactics in this. He is invincible and cannot be killed by anything. It's like a bad version of Superman. Then when he does start getting hurt later in the serie...

This is a somewhat hard book to rate. On the one hand, the writing is quite good, especially as it relates to the relation of Deathstroke and his family. The main artist meanwhile offers up a clean, detailed, and attractive style that works well for a modern comic. I also really appreciate the fact that this comic isn't as mired in decompression and cliffhangers as most of the New 52.On the other hand, the violence in Deathstroke is so over-the-top as to be offensive at times. Issue #2 is one of...

One of the libraries I use has at the counter a selection of free bookmarks by somewhat noted artists - I think Jeremy Deller is probably the biggest name. And despite being situated in a deeply religious area, many of them are rude either in wording or imagery (which, obviously, I applaud). Among the more polite is the one reading 'THIS BOOKMARK WISHES TO BE SOMEWHERE ELSE'. While polite, it is also of course paradoxical - place that bookmark anywhere, however genial, and it will still be sayin...

Wherein assassins' filial relationships are explored as per a Cat Stevens song, but with more decapitations than a Saudi coronation.

This is mediocre at best, the fact that this has to actually tell you Deathstroke is a badass, just shows the level of quality of it. You don't tell people someone is awesome you show them, comics after all is a visual media. There are a few examples of this, for example this has a mystery box in it. What is in it? Well you find out 3/4 of the way through, is it that big of a reveal no it's not since right after you have to get flashbacks to explain the said importance of it. If you're new to De...