This cover is confusing. If Slade is battling the Justice League, why not put them on the cover instead of some misshapen monstrosity with a ridiculous name? Oh wait! I know the answer! Because it was the 90s!
Hemp and his gang appear for three pages. I can't tell if this was a serious attempt by Marv Wolfman to get a WildC.A.T.sesque team off the ground or he was just mocking what he saw developing at Marvel which would turn into Image. This issue shares the same cover date as WildC.A.T.s #1 which continues to not make my mocking theory definitive. But why choose the name "Hemp"?
You know what? I don't know enough about any of the non-DC Comics that were happening in the early 90s but I think I know enough to claim Hemp and his gang were parodies of the current trend in comics at the time. I just Wolfman would have really put everything he had into mocking the style. I guess in the early 90s, he thought it was only worth mocking for a few pages to show Deathstroke kick the trend in the teeth. Too bad Wolfman didn't realize how many comic book fans were going to be fooled by it!
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Deathstroke the Terminator #13
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