Deathstroke: The New 52 Omnibus

Deathstroke (2014) #1-4

by Tony S. Daniel, James Bonny, Tyler Kirkham (Illustrator)

The DCU's deadliest assassin starred in his own ongoing series by writer and artist Tony S. Daniel. See him as never before in this explosive, classic series, with one surprise after another as we see Slade Wilson in the fight of his life in Deathstroke: The New 52 Omnibus.

The DCU's deadliest assassin has no fear as he picks fights with DC's most dangerous and most powerful beings in this hardcover collection.

Deathstroke finds himself fighting Gotham's very own Dark Knight, Batman, but Harley Quinn invites herself to the party. Just as he catches his breath, Deathstroke must face an opponent he prayed would never reappear in his life! If you think Slade Wilson is bad, wait till you see his father! Included is the famous "God Killer" arc where Slade is armed by Hephaestus to take down one of the Olympian gods! So get ready for divine brutality when Slade's contract on the gods sends him smashing into combat against the one and only Wonder Woman!

Then, it's the Suicide Squad vs. Deathstroke! He's battled gods, slain his enemies and even sacrificed parts of himself he never thought he could live without! But Deathstroke's biggest challenge still lies ahead, and if he wants to succeed he'll need to defeat the assembled might of the Suicide Squad!

Collects Deathstroke #1-20, Annual #1-2 and Sneak Peek #1.

Genres: Dc Comics, Comics, Graphic Novels

560 pages, Hardcover

First published October 30, 2018

About the author

Tony Salvador Daniel is a comic book author and illustrator. He is sometimes credited with is full name as Antonio Salvador Daniel.

For the science fiction writer, see Tony Daniel.

Tony S. Daniel decided to become a comic book artist in the 4th grade and has never looked back. He made his professional comics debut in 1993 on Comico's The Elementals and went on to illustrate X-Force for Marvel Comics and Spawn: Bloodfeud for Image Comics as well as writing and illustrating several creator-owned titles of his own: Silke, The Tenth, Adrenalynn and F5 — the last two of which led him, for a time, into the alternate reality known as Hollywood.

After being lured back into comics in 2005 to work with writer Geoff Johns on TEEN TITANS for DC Comics, Daniel landed his dream job in 2007 penciling the adventures of DC's Dark Knight Detective in BATMAN where he first collaborated with writer Grant Morrison and then went on to write and draw the book himself. In 2011 he re-launched DETECTIVE COMICS for DC’s New 52, writing and drawing most of the first year of the historic series. In 2012 Daniel moved from one icon to another when he began illustrating the adventures of Superman in ACTION COMICS.

Reviews

[Zhyar Jasim · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a collection of four volumes that goes as
Deathstroke: Gods of War
Deathstroke: God killer
Deathstroke: Suicide run
Deathstroke: Family business

I enjoyed this run for the majority especially the first two volumes were absolutely fantastic but as this is a current issue I have with comics they decline in quality by the end, as though they really don't know where they are taking the story, by half way through suicide run the plot had just disappeared, I only stayed for Slade since he is a character I deeply enjoy.

Gotta admit the art and story of Tony S. Daniel is amazing especially their drawings *chef's kiss*

[Dusty · Rating 4 out of 5]

Shoot 'em up thrill ride shoehorning tons of guest stars. Slade fights them all... Wonder Woman, Superman, Red Hood, Batman and Ra's al Ghul to name drop a few. Art is beautiful and stories are decent, they range from saving his kids to saving his kids. In summary... Art + Action = Yes Please.

[Rumi Bossche · Rating 3 out of 5]

Deathstroke is a cool hitman, almost invulnerable, that is pretty cool to see but also makes it not very interesting. This omnibus starts of with a blast, fast paced, funny and with lots of (over the top) action. In almost every other issue he meets a hero or villain. Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, the Suicide Squad , almost every body from the DCU, the story is not very special, and even very cliche at times. This is a fun read but nothing special. The artwork by Daniel himself is good, and the action scenes are well done, but overkill at times, there is almost no time for a slow moment or a bit of character development.

[TheMadReader · Rating 1 out of 5]

This was the perfect example of some artists not needing to write…like ever. This was my first time reading anything by Tony, while his art is gorgeous…his writing is campy and childish. The story started out kind of intriguing but then went downhill towards the middle of the run. It seemed as if Tony just wanted to throw in as many DC universe characters because he likes drawing them but not because they had any purpose to begin with.

Deathstroke, the character itself intrigues me but thus far, has been dreadful to read. Both Christopher Priest and Tony haven’t provoked any deep character building to the subject.

I’ll give the character a rest until a more renowned writer takes the reigns. Until then, we just have a pool of mediocrity.

[Sean · Rating 3 out of 5]

First and foremost, Tony Daniel does some amazing work here. Doing double duty as writer and artist is a daunting task. He did extremely well. His art was the standout of the book. Some glorious panels. Story wise I really had fun with the first two arcs. The final third of the book was a real letdown though as Tony Daniel wasn't apart of it (strange considering the title of the collection). The book had some highs and lows but overall this was enjoyable especially the Godkiller storyline.

[Will Cooper · Rating 2 out of 5]

Started out ok and got worse as it went.

[Brannigan · Rating 3 out of 5]

This started out great but slowly lost steam so by the end I didn’t really care what happened.

[Christian Van Hullebusch · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very unexpected, action packed read with great artwork!