durakken's Deathstroke #2 - The Carpocalypse review

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    This was like a Twinkie

    Skip issue #1 again. This is where you want to start if you want to read Deathstroke, This does a good job at making Deathstroke look really cool, smart, and skilled. His character is all wrong, but ignoring that we're still with a pretty cool filler/intro issue. That being said it's 19 pages and advances the plot not at all... and while it's action scenes are all well and good if I were to compare this to food... it's a twinkie... a guilty pleasure with no substance and probably bad for you and your tastes.

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