#arisia 2019

[michaelbaileywriter]

Weekly Update - January 10, 2023

Weekly Update – January 10, 2023

It’s the final countdown to Arisia! My first author appearance since 2019 is this weekend, and you’ll find me in the dealers room from Friday evening through early Monday afternoon, as well as on the Crafting Memorable Villains panel at 11:30 AM Saturday, and the Mushy Middle: Conquering the Midpoint Swamp panel at 4 PM that same day. It’s not too late to register, BTW, but do know that the…

[irisbleufic]

Hi there, anon! It’s 2am in Boston, where I definitely shouldn’t be awake given how early I had to be up yesterday in my own time zone and how many hours I spent traveling - but! Because my life is something straight out of a Wes Anderson film, I was awakened about an hour ago by what sounded like hard rainfall behind my hotel-room wall. Turning on the lights revealed water leaking from the ceiling and leeching into the carpet, so...long story short, engineering and the concierge got me out of that 6th-floor room in a hurry, and now I’m settling into a room on the 8th floor. I can tell this is going to be an exciting convention (Arisia 2019; I’m here to be a panelist as usual)...

TL;DR I’m awake and rattled, so I might as well answer this to get myself tired enough to sleep some more! All of the recent happening-in-the-series’s-internal-present chapters have covered February through April 2017, and the bit you’re quoting is set in April. That’s the spring they’re talking about. As to what’s happened between February and April, if you had been signed into Tumblr and asking, I would have sent a private answer so as to avoid exposing other readers (who haven’t caught up) to spoilers. I don’t want to say too much, but a great deal has happened to Amanda Tomlin, a.k.a. Mandy, surrounding her engagement to Iván (if you remember that happening not too much earlier; they’re both original characters, locals running around in the overarching plot since internal-events 2005). A lot has happened during those months concerning Sophia Device-Pulsifer, too, which is unsurprising given these young women are best friends. My advice to you, if you’re able to take the time to do it, would be to back up to #50 (“Garden Variety”) and read from the final non-historical-flashback scene of it forward. That will get you caught up on the “lot that’s happened” being referenced. I really don’t want to spoil readers who’re trying to get caught up, or folks reading for the first time.

With regard to giving you specific points at which Crowley’s anxiety and/or moments of distress turn up, that’s difficult to do given those moments are scattered throughout the entirety of the 74 existing chapters/stories, both historical flashbacks and present-timeline installments alike. I know this may not be helpful, but the best thing to do might actually be a full reread. If I wasn’t going to be at a hectic con for the next 4 days (I’m on 7 panels), I’d attempt to make a list of key points, but under my current sleep-deprived (and otherwise exhausted) circumstances, that...isn’t very possible.

Thanks so much for your questions, and Happy New Year!

[brentweichsel]

I’m gonna be at Arisia!

Not sure if any of followers/ mutuals will be there in boston this weekend(1/18-1/21/2019) but I will be at Arisia 2019 this year and I’ll be on a few panels! Gaming As a Way of Exploring Identity- Saturday 10:00am. 

Introduction to Anime- Saturday 4:00pm Dungeons, Dragons, and Writers: A Live Event - Saturday 7:00pm

Codebreaking Queerness- Saturday 8:30pm

Why Does Space Get Opera and Cyber the Punk?- Sunday 7:00pm I hope to see you there! If you think your gonna be there please feel free to hit me up here on on twitter! 

Currently doing some con prep and I feel like a mecha gearing up. 

[chungledownbeamcannon]

Inktober day 1: Ring

I just picked a more generic Inktober but the prompts are vague enough I can do whatever, so I went back to the fandim well and drew Arisia Rrab. I have not read every Green Lantern comic in existence but I have a basic primer on her. Basically the romantic stuff between her and Hal is gross but I like the idea if this alien teen Green Lantern living up to her Family's Legacy and trying to he the best she can be.

In another universe, she could have been a Teen Titan. I dunno. Probably not, given how busy she would have been in space.

I might color her later but for now, here you go. Hope you like her. Still getting the hang of poses like this.

I combined a few different looks for her to make one I think fit her. A little of her original look, a bit if her appearance in the Emerald Knights animated movie, and so on.

See you tomorrow for Daaaaay

TWOOOOOOOOO!!!!

[cycling-through-grief]

Leaving of Liverpool

As many know, I lost my father very suddenly in 2017. It’s a pain that touches me in some way every day, a companion both kind and cruel as it’s said that grief is love turned.

I grew up listening to my father sing old showtunes and barber shop quartets. He had a clear tenor, slightly nasal, and had the ability to project it with a clarity that I have strived to match. He was untrained so far as I knew, outside of singing with a community chorale group that truly honored him at his memorial service. But there were two songs that I remember following my earliest memories. One that I have not heard since he last sang it when I was a child, and one that haunts my steps at Renaissance Faires.

The first is Lida Rose. The second is Leaving of Liverpool.

It took me three years to sing Leaving of Liverpool after Dad died. The last time I sang it, I had been performing with The King’s Busketeers at Arisia. I made my father cry, saw him sing along and just sit there with complete pride and wonder on his face. I hold this memory close because this was one of the last times he and I spent time together. Trying to sing it with the Busketeers and later with the Jacks that first two years would almost incapacitate me, and I was grateful when we agreed to shelve the song for as long as it would take. I had to walk away from watching other performers sing the song during that same time, many of whom I admire and didn’t want them to think poorly of me walking away.

But healing creeps on you, then rips the band-aid off with wild abandon. You find that turning point of saying and really feeling it this time, “No, I’m taking this back.” I found that point at the closing gates for the Connecticut Renaissance Faire in the 2019 season. Andy heard the song get accepted by the rest of the horde of musicians, and turned to me with alarm. He and a few others have walked closely beside me while I processed and fought back against the crushing grief. But I wasn’t broken at hearing the song anymore . . . I was mad that I couldn’t enjoy it. I was shaking with anger and I was done stepping back.

And if I blew my voice out singing it to reclaim the songs of my father, then I’d blow my voice out singing it. (It was a very near thing by Sunday night.)

This is the version closest to what I recall Dad singing:

Fare thee well to you my own true love I am going far, far away I am bound for California And I hope that I’ll return some day

So fare thee well my own true love And when I return united we will be It’s not the leaving of Liverpool that grieves me But my darling when I think of thee

I am sailing on a Yankee clipper ship Davy Crockett is her name And Burgess is the Captain of her And they say she is a floating shame

So fare thee well my own true love And when I return united we will be It’s not the leaving of Liverpool that grieves me But my darling when I think of thee

Oh the sun is on the harbour love And I wish I could remain For I know it will be some long, long time Before I see you again

So fare thee well my own true love And when I return united we will be It’s not the leaving of Liverpool that grieves me But my darling when I think of thee

[themutantages]

Do you like songs about Metroid, Samus, Ridley and also break ups?

If YES, check out MIDI Myers live show from Arisia, Inc. this year!

[thecomicsnexus]

The Unity Saga, part 8

SUPERMAN #8 APRIL 2019 BY BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS, IVAN REIS, BRANDON PETERSON, JOE PRADO AND ALEX SINCLAIR

SYNOPSIS + REVIEW

At the Fortress of solitude, Lois and Clark scan Jon’s body to figure out if he is really who he thinks he is. They are angry at Jor-El because he manipulated them into this situation. Now, this is just not true. I can imagine Bendis knows this. This was Lois and Clark’s fault. 100%. There is no one else to blame. Jor-El, if he really is Jor-El, never gave a sign of being harmless or even sane. He is a murderer. And Jon was a ten (or perhaps 11) years old. All the blame falls on Lois and Clark. I cannot even figure out why either of the two would think this was a good idea, why they indulged Jon into going and why would Lois even think about coming back without him.

Superman, angry at “his father”, goes out to hit something and just so happened to be a Mongul invasion around.

Because fuck story lines.

Clark goes back to the fortress and sees that all the results are ok. He really is Jon turned 17.

Then we get this anecdote of that time they smashed “people” in a sector in space. He meets Kilowog and Arisia. Who apparently don’t know in which sector they are (or how to properly use their ring).

Now, this is the part where is actually important for the artist to draw people at different ages. If you look at Jon there, would you say he is 11? or is he older? Perhaps 12? This is important because, if I remember correctly, on Earth, only a month happened. Kilowog and Arisia are in contact with Earth and Green Lantern. So, by the magic of relativism, Jonathan is already older and he is interacting with people that are still leaving in the past.

There is also the fact that Jon is clearly asking them for help. Two green lanterns didn’t react accordingly. By the way, the Green Lanterns know that this Jor-El is crazy. At the same time, has time passed at a different speed for Kilowog and Arisia, are they basically traveling in time every time they go to space. Well, the short answer would be... any character you see in space could belong to any moment in the Earth timeline. So, let’s imagine the green lanterns feel that something’s wrong with Jon and Jor, by the time they told Superman, Jon would have lost 7 years, surely. (Not sure how this happened, technically, every time they travel to Earth, they would be traveling back in time). Any way, this is not a flaw of the story... but I find it weird that the Green Lanterns didn’t try to rescue Jon, who wasn’t around his parents.

Then the ship is taken by a black hole and he appears on Earth-3... not on that universe... at Earth-3. In the actual planet.

We see the crime syndicate, and Power Ring is back... I suppose we are ignoring the past 9 years of comics now. Or... and this is still a possibility, Jon traveled to the past of Earth-3. Because, I am pretty sure Superwoman is also dead. If this is not the past, then DC can fire their editors, because they are simply not doing their jobs.

My guess is that, while traveling from universe to universe, Superboy will age. It’s weird that this doesn’t happen to Superman every time he does, pretty much the same things. It’s almost as if this was the product of a lazy writer.

There is still much to be explained, in fact this is part 8 of a saga about the phantom zone, I guess... Superman abandoned Zod and the rest of the (soon extinct) kryptonians with the one creature that will not rest until killing them all. I guess Bendis wants to get rid of Kryptonians.

I give this issue a score of 4. 3 of those points go to the artists.

[photinakis]

Diaspora

Diaspora, mixed media on Arches, 16 x 20. 2018.

This piece premieres at Arisia 2019.

[marzipanandminutiae]

well, all the materials for my Elle outfit (1872 walking dress) have been ordered!

thanks to everyone who weighed in to help me find black and gray striped taffeta. I am absolutely 110% lining this whole ensemble in $2 cotton from the local discount fabric store, because I’ve sunk a big chunk of change into it and that’s without the brooch that may feature an LED light, or my planned matching hat. there has to be a hat, because in addition to Arisia 2019, i’m wearing this for a First Bustle-era cemetery photoshoot at Halloween

(let’s not even talk about how long I tried to justify buying American Duchess boots for this costume. let’s just not. I definitely can’t afford them, but I want them SO BADLY)

[michaelbaileywriter]

Weekly Update - December 18, 2018

Weekly Update – December 18, 2018

At Last – Part One: The Well-Behaved Women – Awakening audiobook, narrated by Darci Cole, is now on sale! You can get it now on Amazon, Audible, and iTunes!

At Last – Part Two: Arisia 2019 news! I have my table assignment AND my draft panel schedule! You can find me at table 46 in the dealers room, which occupies the Georgian, Arlington, Berkley, and Clarendon rooms (the last one is for adult…

[irisbleufic]

Couldn’t for the life of me tell you why, when I have to be up at 4am in order to catch the first of my two flights to Boston, I’m lying here perusing beautiful high-end wristwatches. Expensive wiki holes and passing special interests are a bitch.

@mere-vanilla said: Have a safe flight! I hope you find what you're looking for with regard to the watches.

Well, to be dead honest, it started with me hitting the point in my CoT reread where I mention Aziraphale got Crowley a Calatrava; I needed to remind myself what Patek Philippe timepieces generally look like. And then I ran across a bunch of Rolexes and thought, why are these the most popular luxury watch brand, legendary functionality aside? They’re so clunky-looking and even ugly? But then I found some Rolexes that are not ugly, and now I want one of the models in particular. Boo.

[arabellaflynn]

via Mrs. Hawking

[esonetwork]

The Earth Station One Podcast - 2019 in the Geek Seat

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The Earth Station One Podcast - 2019 in the Geek Seat

With a new decade on the horizon, 2019 was poised to be the turning point for a number of pop culture franchises. Mike, Mike, Ashley Pauls, Jennifer Adams, and Jami Jones review the year that was as Old Man Skywalker gave rise to Baby Yoda. Plus, Michelle’s Iconic Rock Moments, and Shout Outs.

We want to hear from you. Please write us at earthstationone@esonetwork.com. Feedback is always welcome, and please subscribe and rate the show up on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher Radio, Google Play, or wherever fine podcasts are found. Table of Contents 0:00:00 Show Open / 2019 In The Geek Seat 1:33:09 Michelle’s Iconic Rock Moments 1:37:26 Show Close

Links ESO Amazon Link Earth Station One on Apple Podcasts Earth Station One on Stitcher Radio Earth Station One on Spotify Past Episodes of The Earth Station One Podcast The ESO Network Patreon The New ESO Network TeePublic Store ESO Network Patreon Angela’s A Geek Girl’s Take Ashley’s Box Office Buzz Michelle’s Iconic Rock Talk Show Ashley Pauls Best of 2019 Blurred Nerds Podcast Infinite Realities Comics, Games, and More

ESO Network Upcoming Appearances Jan 12 Atlanta Comic Convention ESO (MikeF, MikeG) Jan 17-20 Arisia (Boston, MA) FLOP (Kevin)

If you would like to leave feedback or a comment on the show please feel free to email us @ earthstationone@esonetwork.com

[aion-rsa]

Deathstroke: The Most Versatile Villain in the DC Universe

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Slade Wilson is Deathstroke, the DC Universe villain who will be making everyone's lives miserable on Titans season 2.

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He’s so darn cool he needs more than one name. Whether he is called The Terminator, Deathstroke, Deathstroke the Terminator, or Slade Wilson, the one eyed killer has been one of DC’s leading villains since his debut in 1980's New Teen Titans #2. In his illustrious career of evil, Slade Wilson has worn many hats, from evil mastermind, to go-to soldier villain, to father figure, to reluctant anti-hero...Deathstroke has done it all. 

See related 

The Many Deaths of The Suicide Squad

It's safe to say that Slade Wilson is the most versatile villain maybe in all of comicdom, something he proved to the general public on the CW’s Arrow where Manu Bennett channeled Slade Wilson’s entire legacy of violence, bringing it to life perfectly and taking Oliver Queen to that next level. But Bennett isn't alone Joe Manganiello will play Deathstroke in an upcoming DCEU movie and Esai Morales has just landed the role for Titans season 2 on DC Universe. 

So in honor of this recent revelation, we proudly present but a few of Deathstroke's career highlights. But please, don’t tell anyone where you heard this info; none of us here at the Den want to find a shiv in our heart.

The Judas Contract

Before Deathstroke, the Teen Titans rogues gallery was not the stuff of legends. The Mad Mod, Mister Twister, and Ding Dong Daddy did not exactly inspire fear in the hearts of mortals. That all changed when Marv Wolfman and George Perez introduced the Terminator in the second issue of their relaunched series. With his inspired design and arsenal of potent weaponry, the Terminator brought a real, concrete threat to the pages of the Titans for the first time. Soon, the Terminator would come to be known as Deathstroke the Terminator (thanks, James Cameron), but the menace remained. In his first appearance, Deathstroke was hired to steal an experimental element from STAR Labs. When the Titans tried to stop him, Deathstroke came within an eyelash of killing the entire team and he severely injured Changeling (who you know better as Beast Boy these days).

This was quite the introduction to the new villain, but the best (or worst) was yet to come. Y’see, at this time in comics, well into the Copper Age of the '80s, the "in" thing was to have a plucky teenage girl join a super team. It started with Kitty Pryde in the pages of the X-Men and continued into books like Green Lantern which saw the teenage alien Arisia join the Corps. Heck, the New Mutants and the Legion of Super-Heroes were filled with plucky teenage girls, so it was only right and proper that the Teen Titans had a PTG of their own.

Enter, Terra, a young girl with the powers to move the very Earth. Fans immediately fell for her. This is where Deathstroke’s status as a master planner truly began. Terra was working for him the whole time. She had played the Titans and revealed all their secret identities to Slade Wilson. She was the Judas in their midst and it was all thanks to the string pulling of DC’s newest master villain. This moment of betrayal changed everything; the once innocent kids club of the Titans was forever marred by Deathstroke’s manipulations.

This led to the first moment where fans realized just how dangerous Slade Wilson could be. Using his knowledge of the Titans gleaned from Terra’ betrayal, in Tales of the Teen Titans #42 (1984), Deathstroke takes down each member of the Titans in very personal ways. He takes out Starfire with a letter bomb long before the Unabomber did his thing; he took out Donna Troy by tainting the passionate photographer’s dark room with a potent gas, he electrified Cyborg’s favorite chair causing Vic Stone’s system to overload, and he drugged Changeling’s envelopes so when the narcissist Titan answered his fan mail, he got roofied. Slade Wilson was so much more than a gun and a sword, that he can take out any hero without a confrontation. It was the moment he went from just another villain to legendarily awesome.

Throughout the years, Slade Wilson had served as the Titans' primary adversary, but he had a tragic past that gave a new wrinkle to the primal villain. He was a family man who had lost his beloved older son and had watched his younger son get his throat slit, rendering the younger Wilson forever mute. Slade was mutilated by his own wife, who shot him in the eye after their younger boy was injured. Ding Dong Daddy my ass. Now, the Titans were all about Slade Wilson, who was about to have an impact on the entire DC Universe.

Read Teen Titans: The Judas Contract on Amazon

His Own Series

Not every villain gets their own series, but there was enough weight to Deathstroke to make him a perfect choice to helm his own book in 1995. Along for the ride was Deathstroke co-creator Marv Wolfman who transformed Slade from the villainous manipulator into an anti-hero in the pages of Wilson’s own title. The book was part Punisher, part Wolverine, part Sgt. Rock...and all Slade Wilson as fans discovered just how much depth this master villain had. Villain titles tend not to last long, but Wolfman found enough material to fill 60 issues worth of kick ass stories.

read more: Everything You need to Know About Titans Season 2

During the course of the series, Deathstroke fought with and against some of DC’s greatest heroes and villains, and for five years in the '90s, Slade Wilson was one of DC’s most popular characters, showing that he was so much more than just another villain. Some of the weight of this series has been carried over into Arrow, where Deathstroke is mourning the death of his beloved Shado and many of his traits and motivations have been drawn from Wolfman’s solo series. Slade Wilson’s tradition of violence was brought to a new crescendo in the pages of Deathstroke’s own book, a book so badass, it didn’t even need cover gimmicks...and in the '90s, that’s saying something.  

Some highlights of the series include:

Deathstroke #27-34 (1993)

Written by Marv Wolfman and drawn by Steve Erwin and Will Blyberg, where Slade Wilson must travel the world in order to save the wife who once maimed him, these issues show the honor and dedication of the deadly merc who kills many different people in many different time zones to save the woman he once loved.

Deathstroke #46-50 (2995)

Written by Marc Wolfman with art by Sergio Cariello and Will Blyberg in which Deathstroke is hunted by a huge number of superheroes after he is framed for the murder of a U.S. Senator. Those cape and cowl pansies had no chance of bringing Wilson down as, dammit, this is the one time he did not kill someone in cold blood.

Deathstroke #6-9 (1993)

by Wolfman, Erwin, and Blyberg sees the first confrontation between Slade and Batman. Wilson holds his own against the Dark Knight, and even Batman must have a grudging respect for the mercenary. This was during the monosyllabic grunting period in Batman’s history so getting him to admit anything other than he likes breaking femurs was quite an accomplishment.

Start reading here - Deathstroke The Terminator Vol. 1: Assassins

Panic in the Sky

Panic in the Sky ran through the Superman family of titles in 1992 and it was one of DC’s best crossovers of the '90s. Plus, it really would make a kick ass movie. The epic saw Brainiac seize control of Warworld and lead an all out assault on Earth. Superman and his fellow heroes were all that stood between Brainiac and world domination. As Superman headed into space, he knew he needed a man to lead the ground forces on Earth. He had all the earthbound superheroes to choose from, but in his wisdom, the Man of Steel went with Slade Wilson.

read more: Justice League Post Credits Scenes Explained

In Panic in the Sky, Wilson wore the mantle of hero and he wore it comfortably, helping keep terra firma safe while Superman took the battle to the sky. Imagine Joe Manganiello, fighting side by side with Henry Cavill in a cinematic adaptation of this story. Yeah, we’ll wait while you’re in your bunk.

Read Panic in the Sky on Amazon

Birds of Prey

Those looking for a Deathstroke/Black Canary connection in comics need look no further than Birds of Prey #22-24 (2000) by Chuck Dixon and Butch Guice (God, that run on BoP was awesome!) I just mention this here to note that in this story arc, Deathstroke led a cadre of killers to Gorilla City to steal an ape’s heart. Let that one sink in, Deathstroke was on a mission to steal an intelligent monkey’s heart. That’s one stone cold killer, man.

read more: Everything You Need to Know About the Birds of Prey Movie

Monkey heart. God, I love comics.

Identity Crisis

Yeah, The Judas Contact was the defining Deathstroke storyline but his greatest single moment was in 2004’s Identity Crisis by Brad Meltzer and Rags Morales. Deathstroke was hired to be the bodyguard for Dr. Light, a man who the Justice League really, really wanted to take down as a suspect in the murder of Sue Dibny, a woman Light once raped. Deathstroke did what he did best; he protected his client from the League and took down some of the League’s most powerful single handedly.

Wilson took down the Atom with a laser pointer, punched Zatanna so hard in the liver she began projectile vomiting (can’t talk forwards or backwards while ralphing bile), cut off Hawkman’s wings, anticipated where the Flash was going to run and impaled the speedster on a katana, and almost, ALMOST, had the willpower to take control of Green Lantern’s ring. Now that’s badass.

Yeah Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman weren’t present, but rest assured if they were, Deathstoke would have had a plan to take them out too. Slade’s rampage was stopped by (wait for it) Green Arrow who stabbed the mercenary in his empty eye socket with an arrow. Thus began a heated rivalry between Deathstroke and Ollie Queen that arguably inspired Arrow’s showrunners to use Wilson as one of the series' big villains.

Read Identity Crisis on Amazon

Father Knows Best

One of the most important roles Slade Wilson has fulfilled since his debut has been that of a father. His children have gone on to become major players in the DC Universe, all driven to prove themselves to or distance themselves from their father, starting with his son Grant, an unstable mercenary with meta-human enhancements. When those enhancements proved unstable and fatal, daddy took up Grant’s contracts and came up against the Titans for the first time. Slade’s emotional response to his sons’ death set him apart from other villains as he may have been a killer, but he was also a father.

read more: Complete Schedule of Upcoming DCEU Movies

The second Wilson child that was introduced was Joey, the aforementioned son who had his throat slit in front of his horrified parents. Joey had the power to possess other bodies and fought side by side with the Titans as Jericho for a very long time.

Then there’s Rose, the second Ravager, daddy’s little girl, who was so enamored with her father’s legacy she, wait for it, no, seriously brace yourself now, that in order to be like her father she gleefully plucked her own eye out of her head. EEESSSHH! Despite that little bit of crazy, Rose soon joined the Titans and has displayed the same twisted code of honor as dear old dad. 

His Own Team of Titans

If you can’t beat them join them, or at least lead them, was Slade’s philosophy in 2010 as he formed his own team of Titans including his fellow villains Cheshire, the Tattooed Man, Cinder, Osiris, and eventually Arsenal, aka Roy Harper (another little Arrow connection right there). On their first mission, Deathstroke’s band of miscreants killed Ryan Choi, DC’s current Atom, and that pretty much set the tone for this team right away. The team took on many other madmen and was short lived, but leading the Titans showed once again that Deathstroke, the mastermind, the soldier, the sometimes hero, could also fill the role of leader.

In this same era, Deathstoke took on the Justice League in Titans Annual 2011 by Eric Wallace and Cliff Richards. Even the combined might of those teams could not bring down Slade Wilson, who stands tall by issues end, confident and smug. Wilson makes even Batman lose his temper who wants to take down Deathstroke once and for all. Wilson knows that to stop them, the League would have to kill him, something they would never do, so Wilson saunters away. This was the old Deathstroke’s final great moment as this all happened right before Flashpoint and the New 52 reboot, so the ramifications of Deathstroke’s team did not linger for long, but not many heroes can say they lead the Titans...and even fewer villains.

Arrgh, Here they be Pirates

In the Flashpoint reality, Deathstroke was a sea pirate, and if that isn’t awesome enough, he also battled the despotic Aquaman on a number of occasions. Aquaman handed Slade his ass, but Deathstroke survived and was able to reunite with his lost daughter Rose to sail the seas away from the conflicts that nearly burned the Flashpoint world to the ground. If you can think of anything cooler than pirate Deathstroke, we would like to hear it.

The New 52

The rebooted Deathstroke is very similar to his predecessor. DC kept the honor and the ability to be a leader or a soldier, but they jettisoned his past with the Titans. Instead, the new 52 Slade Wilson’s past is deeply embedded in the history of Team 7, a group of mercs and soldiers taken from the annals of DC and Wildstorm history. Deathstroke had his own book during the 52 launch, but he has since been relegated to guest star status thanks to some wonky creative decisions (cough, Rob Liefeld, cough). The New 52 Deathstroke has been narratively reconnected with Terra and his children, but we would be lying if we said we didn’t miss his connection to the Titans. That is not to say the new Deathstroke has not had his moments to shine...

In issue #1 of the rebooted series published in 2011 by Kyle Higgins and Joe Bennett, Wilson kills an annoying fly with a paperclip. In that one little scene, readers discover everything they need to know about the merc and how precise he can be. In the same issue, Deathstroke, all by his lonesome, systematically and coldly takes down a band of mercenaries called the Alpha Dawgz (really DC?).

read more - The History of Deadpool vs. Deathstroke

In issue #4 of the new series by the same creative team, Deathstroke escapes from a prison by puking up a hand bomb he ingested earlier and, in a nice callback to the fly incident, a paperclip. Everything may be New in the 52, but at least fans can rely on Deathstroke to be the most well rounded, badass villain on the scene, at least when the right creators are guiding his adventures. 

DC Rebirth

After Wilson’s first New 52 title, DC tried it again with a second volume of New 52 Deathstroke adventures. But like most of the New 52, these tales were rather unfocused with fans unsure of what classic DCU events actually took place within this new DC continuity. Ah, but DC’s recent Rebirth event changed all that. The entire DCU is refocused and reenergized and Deathstroke is along for the ride.

Recently, legendary Black Panther scribe Christopher Priest along with artists like Jason Paz, Carlo Pagulayan, and others have brought Wilson’s war back in a big bad way. This is consistently one of the best books DC is publishing. The timing couldn’t be more perfect for this return to Deathstroke glory because it looks like Slade Wilson will be a major player in both comics and film for years to come. Slade Wilson has been ratcheting up the kill count for decades, but if recent developments are any indication, the carnage is just getting started. 

Start here - Deathstroke Vol. 1 - The Professional

Oh yeah, one more entry…

Deathstroke once Fought Wolverine to a Standstill!

In the 1982 Uncanny X-Men and Teen Titans crossover by Chris Claremont and Walt Simonson, Deathstroke fought Wolverine to a draw, IN A BOOK WRITTEN BY CHRIS CLAREMONT! Even the bard of the X-Men knew how awesome Deathstroke was and had him be every bit an equal to Wolverine, the most kickass X-Man of them all. In the same book, Deathstroke also defeated Colossus. Not every character gets to kick another company’s hero’s behinds. Let the Manu Bennett/Hugh Jackman fanfic commence!

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[themiscyra1983]

I’ve been unwell all week but it’s given me time to get through my backlog of pictures to frame and hang. This is “Water Elemental” by Christine Mitzuk, purchased at the Arisia 2019 art show. #mermaidlife #art (at Medford, Massachusetts) https://www.instagram.com/p/But6lFhDMGv/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1i537bc18uujj

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Arisia 2019 Cosplayers

I took my son to Arisia 2019 for one day. In between talking with friends, purchasing art and walking around, I took some photos of cosplayers. Light was poor so most are photographed at f/1.8.

4th Doctor Who

Spider(wo)men

George Washington

Rose Quartz of Stephen Universe