Friday, June 29, 2012

Deathstroke #9 (DC)

Rob Liefeld sucks! Why dont editors see that?! He is a lazy, unskilled artist and his writing is not much better. Just like his old Image buddy, Todd McFarlane, Liefeld gravitates toward characters that wear full masks because they cant draw faces or expressions. So Liefeld gets Deathstroke. Lets break it down. The Cover: Classic Rob pose. No background. Belts and pouches. Page #1: A building with no windows. A room full of smoke? Shapes that are supposed to be people. Faces with no expressions. Page #2: Weak cemetery. Faces with no expressions. Page #3: The one expression he can draw, angry growl. Page #4: Angry growls. It seems Deathstroke can magically put on his mask? Page #5: No faces. Trees for background. Page #6: Deathstroke looses right bicep band. Gloves change cut design and placement. No faces. Page #7: Faces with no expression. Deathstroke gets right bicep armband back. Purple guys have new face masks? Page #8: No faces. Page #9: The "cat" guy had whitish pants now they are red. Deathstroke has two magical shoulder pads appear and his glove turns blue. Page #10: Guy with glasses looses his backpack. Deathstroke looses his shoulder pads. Page #11: 'Peobody' magically appears with shoulder armor for Deathstroke. Page #12: Large tiles. Deathstroke looses sword. Page #13: Deathstroke finds sword. Large tiles. Page #14: No expression faces. Large tiles. Page #15: Zealot has the exact same hair as Deathstroke on page #2! Page #20: Lobo gets magical new outfit and has no blood on his body or face even though he just tore apart all those weak guards. Page #21 and #22:OOOPS! no page #21 or #22. So now we just paid $2.99 for 20 pages of crap instead of 22 ( I guess i should be glad). If DC had such a sales machine in Rob Liefeld why did he not sell enough to keep 'Hawk and Dove' alive? And dont tell me they planned on canceling it anyway because we all know that if it sold well they would not have chopped it. Money talks. Deathstroke deserves better. I have a headache now.

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