Slade Wilson is trapped in the most dangerous place in the world in our preview of this week's Deathstroke #36.
Writer Christopher Priest and artist Ed Benes team up to bring DC Comics' resident one-eyed assassin to Gotham City's notorious Arkham Asylum, where the merciless merc has been locked up after being declared criminally insane. To paraphrase Watchmen's Rorschach, though: Deathstroke isn't locked up in Arkham Asylum with Batman's rogues -- Batman's rogues are locked up in Arkham Asylum with him.
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Check out the issue’s solicitation text, as well as CBR’s exclusive preview, below:
DEATHSTROKE #36
- CHRISTOPHER PRIEST (W) • ED BENES (A)
- Cover by TYLER KIRKHAM
- Variant Cover by FRANCESCO MATTINA
- “Deathstroke: Arkham” starts here! After being declared criminally insane, Deathstroke is committed to the infamous Arkham Asylum! It isn’t long before the hunter becomes the hunted as Slade, powerless and weaponless, is targeted by some of Gotham City’s most wanted. But after initially mocking and contravening the system meant to help him, Deathstroke learns that his only hope for survival may be to confront his own inner demons.
- 32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
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