Deathstroke #16 Storytime

>>91295794
what is his super powers again?

It'd be too OOC for Priestroke to genuinely care for that chick after knowing her so little, what gives?

>>91295936
She's a former Teen Titan, this is lead in for Judas Contract.
Might be guilt, might be so he can get close to them

>>91295948
>might be so he can get close to them

Oh please, please let that be it. I get why he cares for his family, I care being grateful that she helped him, but being this upset over her feels like misscharacterisation. And I wouldn't want priest to do that, he's been great so far.


Also, I assume you mean Lazarus contract.

Does he finally pound the girl

>>91295960
Feet

>>91296036
>phsyiological

>>91296058
lmfao Slade pls

>>91295960
So.... just like that... She's dead. I'm... not happy about this.

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Based

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What a madman.

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Next:
>“Twilight” part six! All the chips fall as dark secrets within Deathstroke’s world are revealed, including Power Girl—who learns her houseguest’s true identity. Determined to atone for her mistake, the 16-year-old takes on the World’s Deadliest Assassin on her own. Will she bring Deathstroke to justice…or die trying?

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>>91296263
Slade's not interested in burgers

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The end

>>91296263
>it ends in passionate hatsex

>>91296058
Did Slade intend to troll Rose by hiring a fake family or is it part of some deep plan?

>>91296423
deathstroke is batman levels of keikakus within keikaku

>>91296263
So, /co/, let's rate Slade's performance as a hero: solid 8/10 for me, would let him rescue me

This issue
Slade's delicious scumbaggery 2/10
Slade's general badassery 8/10

It's okay, if it leads to a plot. I find it too weird for him to genuinely care for her.

>>91296058
This is priceless.

>>91296423
It's Slade way of showing he cares.

>>91296263
man Slade is gonna pull a Terra on this teen isn't he..

>>91296900
>what a big alien-race lazer-pole you hold, mr hero
>it's to protect you better with, dear

>>91296597
He wants her alive because she might be useful to him in the future. He saves her life, she owes him a favor.

Power Girl was on the Teen Titans so if she ever rejoins them he has a spy.Even if she doesn't join them she has access to useful technology that he could use.

>>91296058
Hahahahah good job slade.

>>91296058
So what's the next ruse that she's going to fall for? Everything so far with Slade has just been straight up lies to get closer to her

>>91296263
>Hand is a bloody stump and Slade is chasing him with a knife
>"You weren't going to KILL him... Right?"
Can't tell if PG is Superman-tier, 2pure4thisworld, or just dumb

>>91297522
luckily, the answer to both is a good dicking

>>91297522
superman teir I think. the pauses suggest she knew exactly what was going on.

>>91297522
She's a genius who's incredibly naive.

>>91295890

Banging underage girls.

>>91295944
that seems ungood

>>91296160
>I've filed a grievance with the Society.

Is it just me or does Priestroke feel like a Venture Brosesque take on the DCU?

>>91296263
don't fuck her, Slade

>>91297522
Self defense wounds. The guy is an assassin, after all.

>>91296263
0/10 Tanya still haven't got sladed.

>>91298255
Hey, she just got shot in the gut.

Oh shit! That call I made last issue where the guy told her the weapon meant "rose" in their language actually being him making up shit to get her to hurry and buy something was right.

>>91296013
>>91296036
I'm not sure if Red Lion or Dr. Villain is my favorite new character

>>91296058
>Problem?

ha

>Slade pseudo-fisting Tanye
>Slade edging Terra in the new Judas Contract movie
Man. DC's really going for it

>>91295893
>the black girl

there is absolutely no way that anyone but priest would be able to get frank dialogue like that in print, even though it's to-the-point and fits the characters

>>91296058
this book is incredible and slade is an incredible character. thanks priest

great great issue

how's prieststroke so good? priest made me want to see deathstroke interactions with other characters in DCU when before deathstroke was mainly Generic Supposedly Badass Assassin #4

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IF SLADE FUCKS NEW PG, PRIEST WILL HAVE ASCENDED THIS RUN INTO ABSOLUTE GODHOOD

>>91298992
fuck her, use her for her titans connections, reveal himself, fuck her again, then ride into the sunset

>>91296193
Jesus, that's brutal. slade's a madman for even trying that tho

>>91297168
Plus she might be a future lay.

> Best Book
> Going Monthly

I hate everything

>>91298761
Slade's real weakness is teenage girls

>>91298992
I suspect that Priest is writing this just to see how shit he can get away with

>>91297522
Well most heroes are ok with doing shit that's pretty fucking painful as long as it doesn't kill.

>>91299204
It hurts.

I hope they set Priest up with another book.

>>91296058
Will Slade ever stop fucking with his children? Probably not.
Will I ever get tired of it? No way.

>>91297522
Priest has been writing PG as massively naive.
I mean, she didn't even bother to google the guy and make sure his backstory check out. She just assumed he was a hero because he was chasing after some low-life.

>>91300109
>Priest Suicide Squad
I can dream

>>91300294
>Priest's Waller

How based would she be /co/?

>>91300109
Priest Question Yes or No?

>>91299204
It's fallen to sub-30k where all the other monthly books are. Deathstroke has greater-than-cancellation fans but not that many.

>>91296193
So does Slade have a hand lodged in his chest now? Holy shit dude

>>91296021
well she got penetrated

>>91296282
wait isn't Metallo dead

isn't Zod on the Suicide Squad

isn't Mongul dead

is this story trumps continuity again

>>91296036
> we'll just reuse the title card font
lettering is hard

>>91296304
>The end
So Slade still has a hand inside his chest?

>>91296090
> It's what I *DO*.
I would have cut his tongue out and fed it to the dog.
"Whoops, so much for your edgxposition kid,"

>>91296405
>passionate hatsex
This isn't TF2

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>>91300384
>>Priest's Waller

>>91300469
>>91301590
I think the hand just exploded into nothingness

>>91301642
well, thankfully slade isn't a self-righteous idiot hoping to prove a dumb-ass point like you, anon.

>>91296193
Looks like he needs a Hand to fight slade

>>91301254
The Suicide Squad are involved in the arc.

>>91301807
>exploded into nothingness
>inside Slade's chest
remember he literally did phase it into there, this wasn't some contact explosion

>>91301959
The suit activated it's defense measures, and i'm pretty sure the implication is that it vaporized. The ikon suit stores fuckloads of energy.

>>91295890
Metahuman gene that let him survive after being dosed with a Captain America biomolecular enhancer. Mentioned in the first issue of this run, I think.

>>91297785
First thing I thought of was the Guild of Calamitous Intent.

>>91296160
>I've filed a grievance with the Society

We don't deserve this book

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>>91302606
>>91297785
>>91296160
Slade takes the Society very seriously, so this is a big threat

>>91302668
Fuck, it would be good if the Society comes after Slade for this in a later story
Scratch that, it would be GOAT

>>91297847
please do fuck her, Slade

>>91298989
Priest is a genuinely intelligent storyteller.

>>91296058
HOW DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING
PRIESTSTROKE BEST BOOK

>>91296193

Is the hand still in his chest?

>>91296090
Aren't those the flying discs Mr. Miracle uses ?

/co/, since is the deathstroke thread, I want to share with you an idea for a story I had in my mind for some time.

It's the even more obvious question whenever someone asks if a superhero or a cop should kill the joker.

Why doesn't Amanda Waller hire Deathstroke to kill the Joker?

Do you think it'd make for a good story?

I think it'd obviously end with a mexican standoff between bats, joker and slade.

>>91304358
because Waller has bigger things to worry about than a random serial killer

>>91304358
You are obsessed.

>>91296058
>>91300193
Is this why Slade wants to bring Grant back? He wants to mess with him too?

>>91299204
Monthly.... Fault of DC events? DC needs Priest in another book?

>>91304565
Just poor sales in general. It's part of the Teen Titans crossover coming up (apparently Priest is heavily involved in scripting it). I think they hope to lose less people if someone only has to buy it once a month:

08/2016: Rebirth #1 -- 109,250 (+431.3%)
08/2016: Deathstroke #1 -- 91,962 (- 15.8%)
09/2016: Deathstroke #2 -- 60,877 (- 33.8%)
09/2016: Deathstroke #3 -- 54,908 (- 9.8%)
10/2016: Deathstroke #4 -- 46,773 (- 14.8%)
10/2016: Deathstroke #5 -- 43,058 (- 7.9%)
11/2016: Deathstroke #6 -- 37,177 (- 13.7%)
11/2016: Deathstroke #7 -- 35,782 (- 3.8%)
12/2016: Deathstroke #8 -- 32,530 (- 9.1%)
12/2016: Deathstroke #9 -- 31,519 (- 3.1%)
01/2017: Deathstroke #10 -- 29,864 (- 5.3%)
01/2017: Deathstroke #11 -- 28,625 (- 4.1%)
02/2017: Deathstroke #12 -- 27,226 (- 4.9%)
02/2017: Deathstroke #13 -- 26,328 (- 3.3%)

>>91304629
That's not poor sales though. That's normal for Deathstroke and healthy industry-wide.

Pre-Rebirth:
06/2015: Deathstroke #7 -- 38,807 (+ 22.6%) [39,993]
07/2015: Deathstroke #8 -- 33,648 (- 13.3%) [34,754]
08/2015: Deathstroke #9 -- 36,583 (+ 8.7%) [37,419]
09/2015: Deathstroke #10 -- 31,241 (- 14.6%) [31,832]
10/2015: Deathstroke #11 -- 31,121 (- 0.4%) [31,649]
11/2015: Deathstroke #12 -- 31,939 (+ 2.6%) [32,568]
12/2015: Deathstroke #13 -- 25,344 (- 20.6%)
01/2016: Deathstroke #14 -- 27,648 (+ 9.1%)
02/2016: Deathstroke #15 -- 26,534 (- 4.0%)
03/2016: Deathstroke #16 -- 25,390 (- 4.3%)
04/2016: Deathstroke #17 -- 24,858 (- 2.1%)
05/2016: Deathstroke #18 -- 21,087 (- 15.2%)
06/2016: Deathstroke #19 -- 21,094 (+ 0.0%)

The concern is that they don't want it to drop much more than it is though.

>>91304629
I'm worried that monthlies getting a price hike will lower sales and kill things like this, New Super- Man, and Red Hood.

>>91304734
I don't think it would because you're still paying less per month overall

>>91304696
26k isn't exactly healthy. It's just below average and is getting into the territory where things get considered for cancellation.

>>91304629
>>91304696
With the crossover coming, I'm hopeful for bigger sales even though titans and teen titans don't have that much of a bigger audience. Heck, maybe the judas contract movie will also get people interested in this comic.

>>91304734
The artist of New Super-Man is leaving for Action Comics so I think NSM is gonna die at #18

;_;

http://vikbogdanovic.deviantart.com/art/Superman-672826481

>>91304785
I feel like you're kind of living in the past there. Cancellation these days is half that, around the 15k point. A fringe character who has settled in the 20ks is fine.

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>>91298511

Villain's actually from Priest's old Steel comics.

>>91304923
If he settles at the 20-22k range that's fine, but it still looks like he's got some dropping which is what worries me. I'd like to be wrong because I don't want this to turn into another Ray situation where Priest has a bunch of stuff built up and then has to be resolved in 3 issues as the book is canceled.

>>91305023
I guess since they're less than -5% and that percentage is generally falling I'm not concerned yet. We'll see though.

If nothing else they probably have bled out as much as they can from Deathstroke fans as far as double-shipping goes. Aquaman and Green Arrow are getting close too.

>>91305197
Problem is that that 5% drop happens twice a month with the double shipping

bump for slade

>>91296263
We do not deserve a book this good. Holy shit.

>>91298511
Priest is a master at the supporting cast. You so rarely get it at all these days and he does it so well with so many strands at the same time.

I can't even describe the stupid-ass grin I had last issue when Dr. Villain reveals he's going to try resurrecting the dead. And no matter how fun that was for ME, it was 1000 times more fun for Priest to come up with and plot out.

I just feel sad for all the years we didn't have Priest books right now.

I like this little (but also big) Peeg a lot.

can't wait for priest to bring slade fucking tara back

you know they are because priest poked fun at it an issue or two back when wintergreen came across tanya

>>91296138
>Pupstroke

Nice

>>91309602
Dogstroke

>>91306701
>I just feel sad for all the years we didn't have Priest books right now.
I know that feel. We've been missing out for so long.

I really hope we get a lot of Priest in the years to come to make up for that.

>>91295890
being the World's greatest dad

>>91296263
i wonder if Slade will fuck her ?

>>91296263
Deathstroke is gonna kill this poor girl to kick off the crossover with the Titans, isn't he...

>>91306701

Thank god DC got over their "black people should write black characters" jam and let Priest write.

>>91306701
I would say Abnett has done a good job with that as well in his aquaman run