As fans everywhere wring their hands in anticipation for the silver screen debut of “the merc with a mouth,” it’d be poor form to overlook comics’ first true metahuman mercenary (not to mention the alleged inspiration for the marvelous competition’s killer cash cow): Deathstroke the Terminator. Created in 1980 by writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Pérez for […]
When Christopher Priest (no relation to the British SFF author), the comic creator behind a legendary run on Marvel’s Black Panther and co-creator of Quantum and Woody, was announced as the new writer for DC Comic’s Deathstroke, fans reacted with surprise and joy, most notably on Twitter.