Deathstroke: Rebirth #1 Review

Writer: Christopher Priest / Artist: Carlo Pagulayan, Jason Paz / DC Comics Christopher Priest returns after a long “LET THEM WAIT!” hiatus from comic books just to come back and hit the ground running with the illest killer in the game Slade Wilson aka Deathstroke The Terminator. If you don’t know ’bout Slade Wilson, all you need to be properly informed is that every day is Assassin’s Creed for Slade. He is a villain that’s bested Batman as well an entire group of Justice League members. He. Is. That. Nice. Slade has been around for years but we haven’t truly broke through his character and background entirely when it comes to his family. Priest provides us with more in depth insight into Slade’s parenting (for lack of better term) with his children Grant (who becomes the first Ravager) and Joey (who becomes Jericho). We see them all on a hunting trip where Grant and Slade are at odds. Priest paints a picture of Slade as a father that teaches only one way, isn’t undercut by sarcasm or pre-teen rebellion, and is really not with the shits. Slade is NOT the father figure from your Pleasanville 1950’s era sitcoms. Hopefully Priest will continue with these looks back at Slade before he becomes Deathstroke to show just how strained he is from his sons, and perhaps even in regards to his marriage.

Priest gives us a very different Slade in present day as he is on another routine “kill shit” mission. Of course we get thrown into the muck of the killing fields as we see it taking pla…