The Ravagers #12

Time to put The Ravagers out of their misery. It was ungrammatical knowing you.

Ridge is on the cover so I have a feeling Deathstroke's PokeDagger is going to get broken. I think he'll make nice with Rose Wilson and realize he doesn't owe Harvest shit. This will lead him to break his contract with Harvest which is something the best mercenaries in the DC Universe never do. So I'm probably wrong.

In the first four pages, Deathstroke captures Thunder, Lightning, and Terra in his PokeDagger. And even if all of the other evidence were stacked higher than a thoroughly convincing stack of evidence, the fact that Terra has already shown up again in Deathstroke #19 means that stabbing people with this dagger does not kill them and turn them into ash. But Beast Boy doesn't know that so he reacts a little angrily.

Awww. Seems just like Preboot times!

While Gar and Slade relive their Preboot rivalry, Caitlin and Rose get into one of those knock-down, drag-out fights that only happen between former best friends. Rose's feelings are hurt because Caitlin didn't remain on the side of evil. And Caitlin's feelings are hurt because Rose didn't tell Caitlin that Niles Caulder was using her DNA to create Real Dolls. Instead of both apologizing and hugging it out, Caitlin throws Rose through a cylinder holding a clone. And then the clone attacks Caitlin. You'd think a clone would have some loyalty. You just can't clone decent clones anymore. Or yet! You probably can't clone them yet! The technology is still being perfected.

Of course that clone fight ends up smashing more clone cylinders which cause more clone fights and more smashed cylinders until nobody knows which Caitlin is Caitlin and which Caitlin is #1 and which Caitlin is #12 and which Caitlin hates Rose more.

I think the one with the moisturized skin is Caitlin.

While Caitlin battles herself and herself and herself and herself and herself and herself and herself and herself and herself and herself and herself and herself, Beast Boy defeats himself by bringing Non-Doom Patrol Headquarters down on his head. Deathstroke shrugs his shoulders and goes off to stab Rose in the back. Now that he's taken care of everybody but Caitlin, he waits for Caitlin to take care of all of the other Caitlins before having a little chat with her.

Caitlin is distraught about possibly being a clone. Who cares?! Your memories are as real as my memories. They're in the past and it doesn't fucking matter what "body" participated in the creation of those memories. Stop whinging on about it and suck it up! I'm so tired of people searching for reasons to feel discontented and put upon. I don't know for sure that I came out of my mother's vagina! I don't know that my grandparents were truly the people they said they were. But it doesn't even matter! Stop trying to be hurt, Caitlin, and break Deathstroke's jaw already!

Instead, Deathstroke stabs Caitlin in the chest and sucks her up into his blade as well. And that's a wrap on The Ravagers! Except for Beast Boy who gets pulled from the rubble by Raven over in Teen Titans #19 and taken to New York to fight on the side of Trigon.

Later at Harvest's new Colony, Slade returns for his payment. The blade was actually a teleportation device which sent everyone he stabbed back to Harvest's Colony. And since Slade's payment was to be Rose Wilson and Terra, he had to come back to pick them up. They all head over to Deathstroke #19 to battle Jericho and Majestic.

The rest of the Ravagers end up sealed in tubes as Harvest's prisoners. I guess they'll be back whenever Harvest gets his own monthly title.

The Ravagers #12 Rating: No change. This was just a bunch of Ravagers getting stabbed with Slade's magic dagger. Not much of an ending, really. It was almost exactly like what a movie theater employee does after the movie has ended and the audience has gone home.