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Kim Yale,Luke McDonnel, | 160 pages | 12 Nov 2013 | DC Comics | 9781401242985 | English | United States Deadshot: Beginnings - -

Goodreads helps you keep track of books you Deadshot Beginnings: Beginnings to read. Want to Read saving…. Want Deadshot Beginnings: Beginnings Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Deadshot by John Ostrander. Kim Yale Writer. Luke McDonnell Artist. Steve Englehart. Gerry Conway. Paul Levitz. Doug Moench. Illustrator. Don Newton Illustrator. Terry Kevin Austin Inker. Bruce D. Patterson Illustrator. Deadshot Beginnings: Beginnings P. Alcala Illustrator. Deadshot, Deadshot Beginnings: Beginnings assassin for hire who never misses, faces new and deadly challenges in this new collection. Spinning out of the hit s series Suicide Squadthis bullet-ridden tale sends Deadshot on a solo mission to kill a crime boss Deadshot Beginnings: Beginnings as El Jefe - only to learn that the men who sent him on this mission have ulterior motives. And while Deadshot stalks his prey, his t Deadshot, the assassin for hire who never Deadshot Beginnings: Beginnings, faces new and deadly challenges in this new collection. And while Deadshot stalks his prey, Deadshot Beginnings: Beginnings therapist is trying to uncover what drives him to kill. Get A Copy. PaperbackFirstpages. More Details Original Title. Deadshot Deadshot Beginnings: BeginningsSuicide Squad 3. Other Editions 3. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Deadshotplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Deadshot Beginnings: Beginnings Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Deadshot: Beginnings. Feb 04, Dirk Grobbelaar rated it really liked it Shelves: graphic-novels- comicsacquired-inbooks-i-own. Collected here is the complete Deadshot mini-series from It elevates Deadshot from second rate entry in the Gotham gallery to something rather a bit more interesting. Deadshot, who may, or Deadshot Beginnings: Beginnings not, have lost some of her professional detachment by falling a bit in love with her client and, secondly, the kidnapping of and subsequent search for Lawton's estranged son. As Deadshot sets out to Collected here is the complete Deadshot mini-series from As Deadshot sets out to look for the boy, the good doctor sets out to determine Deadshot Beginnings: Beginnings it is that makes him tick by investigating his past. It has all the elements of a Southern Gothic tale and is remarkably gritty. Needless to say, the story is deadly serious and, frankly, somewhat disturbing. Kudos to Ostrander and co Deadshot Beginnings: Beginnings pulling this off. It's a fantastic glimpse into the psyche of a "super-villain". This collection would easily have received five stars, but it's rounded off by three earlier stories that relegates Lawton to the role of throwaway bad guy that only uses "trick shots" to get his victims. I can't help but wonder whether it wouldn't have been more fitting to go look in the archives? These stories detract from the seriousness of the mini-series. Deadshot: Beginnings is highly recommended to anybody who is tired of goody-goody characters and to those looking for some good ol' nostalgia. The late 80s was a great time for comics, in my opinion. Mar 26, Shannon rated it really liked it Shelves: fantasy-scifigraphic-novelsactionbooks-reviewed. Deadshot's not so humble origins and reasons for being the anti-hero are illustrated in this tale. There Deadshot Beginnings: Beginnings some good moments and some flat ones but the high points are done well when they hit the mark properly. Attempt to delve into Deadshot's psyche is appreciated. Jul 12, Scott rated it really liked it. I started reading Suicide Squad because of who has a cameo in this and Shade, the Changing Man and stayed because of Ostrander's writing and later that of his wife, Kim Yale, who co-wrote thiseventually acquiring and reading all 66 issues, plus the Special and Annual I own issue 1, but I saw this in high grade for half off the cover price after struggling to find without paying egregious shipping charges. I started with the three Batman stories--excellent art Marshall Roge I started reading Suicide Squad because of Black Orchid who has a cameo in this Deadshot Beginnings: Beginnings Shade, the Changing Man and stayed because of Ostrander's writing and later that of his wife, Kim Yale, who co-wrote thiseventually acquiring and reading all 66 issues, plus the Deadshot Beginnings: Beginnings and Annual I own issue 1, but I saw this in high grade for half off the cover price after struggling to find without paying egregious shipping charges. These issues may be better than they seem here because only the issues in which Deadshot appeared although not his first Deadshot Beginnings: Beginnings, though a footnote makes clear that that's not some Earth-2 version despite a more dapper costume are included, and it ends with Deadshot revealing who hired him, which is an abrupt cliffhanger to end a trade paperback on. I guess these are in the back because they're considered bonus stories. I thought Deadshot Beginnings: Beginnings art is the best Deadshot Beginnings: Beginnings the book, although he could have done a little better setting up the giant typewriter that is used for the final battle. It blends into Deadshot Beginnings: Beginnings background at first and had me turning back pages. The first issue, which I'd already read for the aforementioned Black Orchid appearance, has Deadshot real name: Floyd Lawton offing the last member of "his old gang," Silage, is mostly self- contained, but includes set-up for the rest of the story as Simon LaGrieve relieves Marnie Herrs Deadshot Beginnings: Beginnings Lawton's psych case for becoming too involved personally, and Lawton's estranged wife contacting him for help when their son, Edward, is kidnapped. This begins Lawton and Herrs two parallel journeys that take them both to Lawton's hometown, Lawton, which was founded by Floyd's father, now wheelchair bound, supposedly because Floyd shot him, although he was never charged. Two deceased and never-depicted characters loom large over the events, Jennifer Herrs, Marnie's sister, and an elder Deadshot Beginnings: Beginnings Lawton, Floyd's brother. I thought the hints of romance between Marnie and the town sheriff were a bit contrived, but fortunately not dwelled upon, and the main story being pushed into three of the miniseries' four Deadshot Beginnings: Beginnings might not have been the best use of space--having read the first issue, that the series was about a deeper examination of Lawton's origin than had been previously told--was not clear even though the cover description makes it so. Luke McDonnell's art has the feel of the eighties art in comics--even as a kid, I thought the art from the seventies I was seeing in back issues was better than a lot of what was on the stands I was twelve when this series came out--I was aware of Suicide Squad on the stands but wasn't drawn by the art or title, which I erroneously thought was DC's answer to Marvel's Strikeforce: Morituri, which I didn't read either but knew what the concept was from Bullpen Bulletinsand doesn't, to me, look Deadshot Beginnings: Beginnings good as the art later in the volume. One image of Deadshot Beginnings: Beginnings taking his gun from under his shirt Deadshot Beginnings: Beginnings me studying the Deadshot Beginnings: Beginnings carefully because the anatomy of the hand looked messed up, and continued to even after McDonnell's intention became clearer to me. In the climax, there is a noticeable goof when Deadshot has his armed trained on someone, then lifts his arm when he is convinced not to fire, and his blaster appears on the underside of his arm when it wasn't there before. For the most part, though, the art serves the story well, and there are some stylish low angle closeups of characters' faces. Deadshot Beginnings: Beginnings with all of Ostrander's Suicide Squad at least through its initial cancellation in I have not read Raise the Flagthis has my recommendation. View 2 comments. Apr 19, Alex Sarll added it. The opening page sets the Deadshot Beginnings: Beginnings Deadshot, stylised against a fractured background, with the title 'Die But Once' above him and a Chatterton quote at his shoulder. The literary allusion, the alienated lines of McDonnell's art, and later the antagonist with a taste for word salad, would all have been equally at home around the same time in the supernatural DC stuff that would become Vertigo; there's a cameo by Black Orchid, too. But even by Deadshot Beginnings: Beginnings boundary-pushing standards there's some heavy stuff in here, the implications about what happens to pretty posh boys in prison only the start of it. Still, whereas applying that sort of intermittent realism to comics can often feel like adolescent shock tactics, here the effect is a powerful, no-holds-barred noir, taking in three generations of Lawtons who none of them get away clean. The collection is filled out with three pre-Squad stories of Deadshot's days as a Gotham villain though not his original appearance as a fake hero. With different creators on each, his pre-Ostrander characterisation is erratic. But they did serve to remind me that, as much as I hate modern Batman, the oddly soapy eighties stuff does have a certain charm. Jamie Hector displayed exactly the right chilling quality as Marlo from The Wire; I've only seen Lakeith Stanfield but that wonderful detached air to comic ends, but modulate it a little and I think he could equally pull it off. Mar 31, Lorenzo rated it really liked it. Deadshot Beginnings: Beginnings better than I expected. The 4 issue Deadshot arc was very dark, in a way that I was definitely not expecting. It had a good story with a little bit of everything. I really enjoyed reading this. Aug 27, Gonzalo Oyanedel rated it liked it. Nov 17, Brannigan rated it really liked it Shelves: graphic-novel. Great origin story for Deadshot. DEADSHOT: BEGINNINGS | DC

He began as a one-shot tuxedoed assassin in the s, Floyd Lawton, a spoiled rich kid looking for thrills and stopped by Batman. Long forgotten, he was revived by Steve Englehart and Marshall Rogers in the s, this time as a high-tech costumed assassin Deadshot Beginnings: Beginnings in all but name. Deadshot became a regular skulker about Gotham, and two later appearances also feature, drawn by the sadly long-forgotten Don Newton. Here was a man with fabulous storytelling skills and a natural instinct for layouts. The meat of this book is four chapters of Deadshot solo dating from the s, when he was an integral component of the Suicide Squad as written by John Ostrander. Psychological analysis was a frequent feature of that title, and in Deadshot Ostrander had a prime candidate. Here was a supposedly infallible Deadshot Beginnings: Beginnings with state of the art technology, yet for some reason he always missed Batman. Why was this? Ostrander cast him as the only member of the Suicide Squad with an active death wish. This effect is more than just the appealing sight of McDonnell inking his own pencils, using a loose, scratchy style. A second collection of Deadshot material Deadshot Beginnings: Beginnings other creators is titled Bulletproof. Deadshot Beginnings: Beginnings date: UPC: Contains adult content? Does this pass the Bechdel test? Positive minority portrayal? Categories: Superhero. Related merchandise Deadshot action figure. Deadshot: Beginnings Creators:. Don Newton. Doug Moench. Gerry Conway. John Ostrander. Kim Yale. Luke McDonnell. Marshall Rogers. Paul Levitz. Steve Englehart. Like this? Try these. Deadshot: Bulletproof. Punisher: Born. Deadpool: Monkey Deadshot Beginnings: Beginnings. Suicide Squad: Kicked in the Teeth. Deadshot: Beginnings by John Ostrander

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