Hi guys, as some of you know, I did some stories a couple of years ago centered around Slade and his family, I always have loved this part of his story that has never quite been explored that much in comics but i never quite found an audience or interest, maybe i was making everything too complex, maybe my skills weren’t there or my writing was poor or too hard to follow…idk.
Anyway, i never stopped thinking and wanting to draw more about them and just for this year’s father’s day i let myself go and I made this page. I dont think i will go back to do comics about them or at least not anytime soon but i would like to know if there’s more people out there who like this.
OMG I just picked up the new Deathstroke 2026 #1 from my local comics shop and I cannot explain to y'all the joy I felt as I opened it up and the first page had Rose and Wintergreen.
"I don't want to be his manservant."
"I can't be the only person in his life."
I'm screaming, I just peeked at it in the car, I'm omw home now Aaahhhhh 💕
for me and the other 2 adeline kane fans... she's like if an abusive husband was a woman 🙏🙏 i truly understand how slade has never gotten over her. this drawing is inspired by how i like to think slade definitely keeps an image of her (maybe from their wedding) on him at all times
Everytime I reread this panel I just get refilled with all the pain both Slade and Addie (yes her too) put their two sons through 😭.
Father thinks wife and youngest son are dead. Proceeds to further indoctrinate older son to seek revenge and go down the path of a merciless killer for hire.
Mother fakes her own death and death of her youngest son in order to escape the repercussions of her husband's choices but does not make any such efforts to A) somehow inform older son or B) not do that to begin with.
Now, you have Grant working through layers of grief and survivor's guilt because he believes Joey is dead and falling deeper into the path that his parents set him out for.
Of course, this is the 2011 20 issue + #0 run, so some of this information is nullified anyway, but so much of it is actually great material for the Wilson/Mercfam as a whole. Especially when it comes to Grant (and Joey) whose material can be quite contradictory, or rebooted often to accommodate for Slade's storylines. Lots of great material to piece together a cohesive timeline for both sons though!
Some more of my musings, old and revamped (unformatted):
Another thing however, is that Issue #0's continuity errors can be corrected while still maintaining some other aspects of it that can be used to formulate a stronger timeline.
1) Joey still needs to get his throat slit by the Jackal and Adeline has to be the one who shoots out Slade's eye, not a random soldier. I think the soldier segway is still good though, but it shouldn't be Slade who killed the soldier's brother nor should it be him who kills the soldier. It should be Grant.
2) While enemies of Slade can still attack their home, it makes more sense for their to either be an attack and then Adeline and Joseph get kidnapped or for the two of them to be kidnapped. I don't think Alex being present is necessary at the moment of the attack/kidnapping, but Grant being present in some way makes sense*.
3) This allows the segway for Slade to go in and rescue them, leading to Joey still getting his throat slit because of Slade's 'code of ethics' and getting his eye shot out by Adeline.
4) I believed it nonsensical then as I do now: there is no reason for Grant to be the only one unaware of Deathstroke's identity. His initial introduction and death in TNTT vol. 1 (Issue #1 and #2) served only for Slade (and eventually Joeys) introductions. We've grown past that in the last 46 years I think.
Nuff said for now, my void shouting secedes.
*I have a few different ways this could pan out, which acts as the hinge for other events later on.
