Deathstroke (2016-2020), #27, March 2018: Defiance, Part 6

Deathstroke (2016) (Single Issues)

by Christopher J. Priest, Diogenes Neves (Illustrator)

“The Fall of Slade, Part Two.” Father and son clash when Jericho flies to rescue Deathstroke from Jericho’s ex—the resurrected Dr. Ikon! Meanwhile, Terra is summoned to an ambush by the Forgotten, the deadly leader of the White Lotus, and worlds collide as the New Super-Man demands Deathstroke’s arrest!

Standard cover by Ryan Sook.

32 pages, Comic

Published January 3, 2018

About the author

Formerly (before 1993) known as James or Jim Owsley.

Christopher James Priest is a critically acclaimed novelist and comic book writer. Priest is the first African-American writer and editor for Marvel and DC Comics. His groundbreaking Black Panther series was lauded by Entertainment Weekly and The Village Voice and will serve as the basis for the 2018 Marvel Cinematic Universe adaption.

Besides Black Panther, Priest has written comics for Conan, Steel, Green Lantern, The Crew and edited The Amazing Spider-Man. He also co-created Quantum & Woody along with Mark Bright and co-founded Milestone Media.

After a decade long hiatus he is currently writing comic books again and recently concluded a stint writing the comic book Deathstroke (2016-2019).

In addition to being a writer, Christopher J. Priest is also a baptist minister.

Reviews

[Robert Hultman · Rating 3 out of 5]

The action somewhat saves this one, but there is still too much going on and I don’t care about most of it. Oftentimes I feel like a comic series needs more than a few issues to breathe and really tell the stories and develop characters, but this is just stuff happening after stuff happening with characters I don’t know or much care about, and so the events are far less interesting as a result.