Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Deathstroke Rebirth #1 by Christopher J. Priest 'Deathstroke: Rebirth' Dives Into The Frightening Mind Of a Killer. With the super-villain ensemble Suicide Squad making bank at the box office and Marvel and 20th Century Fox’s Deadpool going forward with a confirmed sequel, we’re experiencing a surge in interest regarding comic book antiheroes. It hasn’t been too long since we last saw Slade Wilson, a.k.a. Deathstroke, but now is as good a time as any for DC to spotlight its own cold-blooded merc. Slade took on Olympian titans in Tony S. Daniel’s Deathstroke: God Killer last year, but now as a part of DC’s Rebirth, Deathstroke returns to a ground war, the kind of fight he knows best. But Deathstroke: Rebirth #1, out now on shelves and written by Christophe Priest ( Black Panther ) and illustrator Carlo Pagulayan (Marvel’s Agents of Atlas ), is going outside the battlefield and inside his killer instinct. “Instead of just fights and blood-letting, we’re really trying to get inside Slade’s head and explore what is it that makes or motivates a villain,” explains Priest in a phone interview with Inverse . “Really get inside the mind of a killer, about this deeply disturbed person and the challenges his lifestyle presents for his family, and for his friends.” On a recent call with Inverse , Christopher Priest and Carlo Pagulayan layed out what Deathstroke fans can look forward to in the newest refresh of DC’s meanest mercenary. Deathstroke has been an anti-hero and sometimes even a hero. What made you want to paint Deathstroke as a full-fledged villain in your new series? Christopher Priest : My point of reference for Deathstroke is kind of narrow. Marie Javins, a DC editor, she invited me to write the book. My first thought was [Deathstroke creators] Marv Wolfman, and George Perez, where he carried labels like “anti-heroes,” “super soldier.” I don’t think of him in those terms. I think Deathstroke is a villain. Period. He is a bad guy who does bad things. He has his own warped code of ethics, but by and large he is just a villain. This is what I’m trying to drill down with the editors at DC. I don’t want to write stories where we create a bigger villain so he can seem heroic. Slade is not a good person, and that’s the core value that we’re trying to get back to. Carlo Pagulayan : It’s more psychological. I’m trying to, as much as possible, capture emotion, and hopefully be successful in interpreting expressions, and what he’s thinking at the moment. It’s challenging, and I guess it’s fun. Have you had trouble telling your story of Deathstroke, especially since it’s so connected to the overall Rebirth? Priest: I was given a wide berth to pitch my version, so there really were not a lot of editorial restrictions. As far as Rebirth, Marie mentioned to me in the offering, “We’re doing Rebirth which you’re going to transition us out of New 52”, and I said, “What’s New 52?” I had no idea what New 52 was. I haven’t been reading comics for quite a while, so I was really just out of the loop. I’m writing Deathstroke as though there’s never been a Deathstroke book before. If you’ve never read Deathstroke, if you’ve never even liked the character, it’s a perfect opportunity to sample this, and you get in from the ground floor up. It’s like Deathstroke: The Netflix Series, or Deathstroke: The Movie. What’s it been like for you to return to comics after so long? Priest: It’s been a challenge. Getting back into the swing of things, formatting, and just the general pace because Deathstroke is published twice a month. That was interesting being thrown into that. In the interim I have been writing novels, so I’ve been writing long form and comics are very short form. You only have 20 pages, and page 20 comes at you like a bullet. As soon as you’re really staring to have fun, all of a sudden time is up. That’s taken a bit to get used to. What attracted you to taking on Deathstroke as your first subject since returning? Priest: For me, it was the challenge to write a bad guy, to write him from the inside out. The theme of the book is exploring not only villainy, but justice. The price of having justice in the world is guys like Deathstroke, because justice demands due process and legal proof. We don’t just lock up the villains and throw them in Guantanamo Bay without charge. That would be vigilantism, not justice. A guy like Slade, he’s an expert at not getting caught, and he’s got a lot of money, just like Bruce Wayne, and he has a bunch of lawyers that can get him off. That’s kind of thematically what’s going on in the book, and that’s what really I felt was a real challenge to write. **What has your team dynamic been like, especially since Priest is coming back after a leave from comics? Priest: A lot of what I’m doing in Deathstroke just wouldn’t work if Carlo wasn’t capturing the expressions, and the body language of the characters amazingly well. I think he’s just doing a fabulous job of it. Pagulayan: It’s a learning curve, everytime I collaborate. Christopher writes like a director. I see how the way he composes a story sequence. There’s a subtle redesign to Deathstroke. He’s a little slimmer. What motivated this trimmed-down version of Deathstroke? Pagulayan: The way I see him is like, Snake, from Metal Gear Solid . Priest: His modus operandi is he’s an assassin. I said [to Marie], “If this guy’s an assassin, assassins don’t run around with a bandolier and all this armor. An assassin is like a ninja. He melts out of the black, slits your throat, and vanishes into black again. He will bulk up in issue six, he’s fighting like a hundred guys, but he’s air-dropped into a war zone. When he’s on a mission trying to creep silently, get out without being noticed, why on Earth is he dragging all that stuff? DC’s Deathstroke: Rebirth #1 is out now on shelves. This interview was edited for brevity and clarity. Christopher Priest (disambiguation) 1) Christopher Priest, b. 1943 author of "The Prestige"' and numerous other works of science fiction. 2) Christopher Priest, (born James Christopher Owsley) b. 1961 comic book author. #2 sometimes uses his middle initial "J" or has had works entered under his birth name "Jim Owsley". Please put/change entries for the b. 1961 author under "Christopher J. Priest". Thank you. Improve this author. Combine/separate works. Author division. "Christopher Priest" is composed of at least 2 distinct authors, divided by their works. You can edit the division. Includes. Christopher Priest is composed of 4 names. You can examine and separate out names. "Deathstroke's" Rebirth Focuses on Mysteries, Family - and Violence. DC Comics' amoral mercenary is sent down a road upon which he'll face the demons of his past. SPOILER WARNING: this article contains spoilers for "Deathstroke: Rebirth" #1, on sale now. This may come as a shock to some, but it appears that Slade Wilson is not an especially good father. The evidence was there, even before Christopher J. Priest and Carlo Pagulayan's "Deathstroke: Rebirth" #1 was released. His oldest son Grant became the first Ravager, a rival assassin; his younger son Joey opposed his father as the Teen Titan Jericho; and his daughter Rose, also a Ravager, has a pretty complicated relationship with her dad in several continuities. Here, though, readers learn how the villain for hire feels about his family life and the way his failures toward his children affect his bloody work, setting up a key theme for the latest ongoing series. The issue opens on a flashback to what looks to be a pretty awful camping trip for the Wilson family. Slade discovers Grant, who has no love of sleeping outdoors, dozing in the car, and roughly chucks him into the snow. (Aside: camping in winter does sound miserable!) Joey tries, not very effectively, to serve as peacemaker, but Grant storms off into the woods. Papa Slade drives off with his younger son, leaving Grant to his own devices. That'll show him! His father and brother now gone, Grant is attacked by a bear. Slade comes to the rescue, shooting the bear just as it descends on the boy. Bet he's glad his dad is such a hardass now! As Slade lectures his son, the dapper Wintergreen emerges from the woods to lecture Slade in turn. Oh, and to give him an assignment. Years later, after Slade has lost an eye and the pigment in his hair, a mission to an unnamed African nation forces Deathstroke to navigate a complex series of allegiances. Helping a warlord to subdue his foes and manipulating the American political scene earns Deathstroke a shot at a target the warlord had sworn to protect -- the Clock King. Rather than the New 52 mobster version of the villain, here we see an elderly and infirm character in the original costume. He also mentions that he is time displaced by seven seconds, making him harder for Deathstroke to kill (though he knows Slade can do it if he sets his mind to) -- previously, his power involved seeing about four seconds into the future. Does this more powerful incarnation indicate that not only has another character from pre-"Flashpoint" continuity slipped through into the "Rebirth" world, but whatever was done to the timeline is playing havoc with a man whose very essence is built around time? The single page of Slade's assistant Hosun moving money around injects some interesting ideas into the "Deathstroke" status quo -- via his young behind the scenes partner, Deathstroke adds hacking and political machinations to his deadly arsenal. But back to Clock King. Confronted with the ill and aged supervillain, Slade's honor is tested -- Ol' CK offers information on "a loved one of the world's greatest assassin" in return for Deathstroke sparing his life, but Slade doesn't bite until Clock King gives the word: "Kenilworth." That "loved one" has to be Grant, right? Of course, Grant is dead in both pre-"Flashpoint" and New 52 continuities -- several times over, it must be said, so he would need to have undergone some kind of. rebirth. Is this the "loved one"? He watches old footage of Slade and his boys in happier times, shouting at the screen bitterly before erupting with shouts of "Jackass!" Exactly as Grant did earlier in the issue. Slade is on his way, and once again "Kenilworth" is the magic word as some men he employs sneak him into an enemy camp. The guards gets sliced like Thanksgiving ham, and Deathstroke breaks through to rescue. Hmmm. The path may be a bit longer than Deathstroke had anticipated, but with Wintergreen having been something of a father figure to Slade the family dynamic becomes a bit more complex. What Deathstroke wants for -- and from -- his children will clearly be central to the twice-monthly ongoing series when it fully kicks off later this month. "Deathstroke: Rebirth" #1 is on sale now; "Deathstroke" #1 arrives August 24. Shaun Manning has written for CBR since 2006. In that time, during which the site has won multiple Eisner Awards, Shaun has interviewed some of the biggest writers, artists, and editors of the comics medium, as well as the stars and directors of comics and sci-fi TV and film. All of this started when, at around seven or eight years old, he picked up a tattered copy of Marvel's Transformers #1 at a flea market (thanks, Captain Vic!), and then in middle school delved into superheroes with the X-Men cartoon and the Death of Superman. See, media tie-ins and event comics can bring in new readers! Soon, Shaun was utterly corrupted by Sam Kieth's The Maxx and Steven T. Seagle and Teddy Kristiansen's House of Secrets, introducing the wonder of "Mature Readers" comics at an age he kind of wasn't, really. Shaun can be found on Twitter at @FasterthanShaun rampaging about comics and politics. Deathstroke Takes On DC Villains In New Deathstroke Inc. Comic. “After suffering too many losses, Slade Wilson decides it’s time for a change,” reads a description of Deathstroke Inc. #1 on the publisher’s subscriptions page . “When he’s enlisted to work with an ages-old secret organization called The Trust. The name ‘TRUST’ doesn’t instantly bring to mind any organization in the DCU, but Deathstroke has had major trust issues over the years. His history with the Teen Titans, his children, and pretty much everyone who has ever crossed his path (Batman I’m looking at you). We will get a lot of Deathstroke soon! Slade is going to guest star in August’s Justice League #66, which will relate to the current Checkmate series – both of which feature Green Arrow and Black Canary as members of their respective teams. It’s been 18 months since the end of writer Christopher Priest’s long-running Deathstroke series. At the time, Priest said that sales were good enough that the series could’ve gone on, but he had a firm ending planned with Deathstroke #50. As luck would have it, Deathstroke by Christopher Priest Omnibus will go on sale two weeks before Deathstroke Inc. debuts. Deathstroke Inc. was hinted at back in February during a ComicsPro event. It was one of 11 titles DC mentioned briefly, but didn’t give any details on. Some of those, such as Crush & Lobo and The Joker Presents: A Puzzlebox , were later announced, but we’re still awaiting details on Elseworld, DC Vampires, Robin and Batman, The Legend of Batman, Nubia and the Amazons, and DC Middle Ages. Deathstroke, Vol. 1: The Professional by Christopher J. Priest. The World’s Deadliest Assassin blasts into a new era in DEATHSTROKE VOL. 1: THE PROFESSIONAL, as part of DC Rebirth! With a thousand enemies and a thousand kills, Slade Wilson, a.k.a. Deathstroke, is the world’s greatest assassin. His genetically enhanced strength, reflexes, healing and intellect-plus his ruthless dedication to his work-have made himone of the most feared people on the planet. But even Deathstroke has vulnerabilities-and someone in his inner circle is beginning to exploit them. When an assignment in a war-torn African country leads him to an old teammate, Deathstroke discovers that his own daughter, Rose-a.k.a. the Ravager-has a price on her head. In order to save her life, he’ll have to break his professionalcode, betray his most trusted allies, cross his most powerful enemy and defeat his own unshakeable addiction to violence. Can Deathstroke run this gauntlet and survive with his family, his honor and his life intact? Find out in DEATHSTROKE VOL. 1: THE PROFESSIONAL, exploding from DC’s blockbuster Rebirth event! This historic volume and great new jumping-on point opens a thrilling new chapter in the life of one of comics’ greatest villains-crafted bythe legendary writer Christopher Priest and a killer team of artists, including Carlo Pagulayan, Larry Hama, Joe Bennett and more! Collects issues #1-5 of the acclaimed new series with the DEATHSTROKE: REBIRTH one-shot. Deathstroke, Vol. 1: The Professional by Christopher J. Priest. Sam Quixote says. Did you know Rebirth is a massive hit for DC? They’re selling a buttload of these comics! But is anyone reading them? Because if they are, how are DC still managing to sell so many comics when they’re this bad?? I’m honestly at a lossto explain it. Despite his horrendous Black Panther comics at Marvel, I was willing to give Christopher Priest another shot but after Deathstroke Rebirth, that’s it. I’m never reading another Christopher Priest comic again! After some meandering drivel in Africa, Deathstroke is reunited with his long-lost daughter Rose who’s being targeted by someone and he decides to save her by killing her assassin. Also Batman makes a cameo. Are you familiar with Deathstroke? Because if you’re not, you’re gonna be really lost as Priest doesn’t give you any help on the character’s background. We’re just meant to know who Wintergreen is, what happened to Slade’s firstfamily, and how his daughter Rose came to be. Not just who her mother was and how that came about, but WHY did she become Ravager, following in her dad’s footsteps – does she even like her estranged father? She had a relationship withNightwing - was she training to be a good guy and then got sidetracked? I know Rebirth is about returning to classic continuity but a little bit on his history would’ve gone a long way, particularly for the new readers jumping on forthe first time. Priest is a shockingly incapable writer on every level. I mean, he doesn’t attempt establish who Deathstroke is. HOW did Slade Wilson go from being a loving father and husband to a cold-hearted tosspot assassin? WHY did he become anassassin and where did “Deathstroke” come from? If you didn’t know he had a healing factor, you’d wonder how in the fuck he could survive a bullet to the back of the head (his healing factor is mentioned dozens of pages after thatpanel)! Besides the lack of information on the characters and the barely coherent, uninteresting and instantly forgettable story, Priest ineptly jumps back and forth in time. It’s so jarring and needlessly complicated - a caption to tell uswe’re in the past would’ve been useful considering Slade looks the same in the past as he does in the present! It’d have been good too if Deathstroke was even remotely likeable. Some writers with much more talent than Priest can make readers like completely degenerate scumbags but I hated Deathstroke from the beginning to the end. He’s a stoic,miserable cunt who I wished nothing but pain and suffering on every page. Rooting for him? HA! The only positive about this guy is that Marvel ripped him off to create the vastly better character Deadpool (Slade Wilson/Wade Wilson,both are assassins, both have swords and guns, both have healing factors, both have full face masks). Priest is also completely detached from contemporary culture and modern kids which wouldn’t matter if he didn’t have to write a kid character. He writes the most horrible Damian Wayne I’ve read yet who makes ‘70s sitcom references to“Maude” in his dialogue. Kids these days have NEVER heard the theme song to Maude (unless they remember that one scene from Family Guy) and wouldn’t quote “And then there’s Maude”! Priest is 55 years old and would’ve been a kid when hesaw those shows growing up in the ‘70s so HE would make those references but he’s so crappy and lazy a writer that he can’t even attempt to make plausible references to 21st century shows. This was horrible! I guess Carlo Pagulayan’s art was competent but I loathed Priest’s bad writing and hopeless storytelling so much I couldn’t enjoy it in the least. Maybe established Deathstroke fans might get more out of this butI’ve gotta warn you that Christopher Priest’s writing is utterly abhorrent and might ruin it for you too. Deathstroke, Volume 1: The Professional SUCKED. Anne says. I really wanted to like this because I really like Christopher Priest. But there were just too many moments that I just kind of shook my head, re- read a few pages, and then went. Wait. What? I know who Deathstroke is and I know some backstory on his character, but I don't think I'm alone when I say that I don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of everything about the guy. It's Deathstroke , not Superman , you know? A little re-cap wouldn't hurt. So, I don't know whether I'm just missing too much information that I should already know about Slade Wilson (who the fuck is Wintergreen?) or if Priest just did a piss-poor job telling the story? I get that it was supposed tobe all twisty with these big reveals to make you GASP! But almost all of it was (to me) extremely confusing. I know I'm not the smartest person out there, but I shouldn't have had to read, re-read, and re-read again. just to finally sort of get the gist of what was going on.Maybe? I don't know. I liked Rose and since a lot of the story (towards the end) revolves around her, I'm willing to keep going. Hopefully, this was just a bumpy start. Chris says. Oddly intriguing for a book about a villain who's a complete asshole, The Professional held my attention in spite of it's often confusing, non-linear narrative. Christopher Priest's characterisation is unique, resulting in some greatscenes that make it easier to overlook the weaker moments. Admittedly, i'm not sure if I actually enjoyed reading Deathstroke, but I do feel compelled to read the next volume. At the very least, I applaud DC for trying something a bit different with the character. Tags: Deathstroke, Vol. 1: The Professional by Christopher J. 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