Blake Petit
January 3rd 2005, 04:43 PM
Review by: Blake M. Petit Blake@comixtreme.com
Quick Rating: Good
Title: Neighborhood Watch (Urban Renewal Part Two)
Deadshot is going to protect his daughter – even if he has to turn her home into a bloodbath!
<a href="http://www.comixtreme.com/gallery/data/media/764/deadshot2.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.comixtreme.com/gallery/data/thumbnails/764/deadshot2.jpg" align="left" border="0"></a>Writer: Christos N. Gage
Pencils: Steven Cummings
Inks: Jimmy Palmiotti
Colors: James Sinclair
Letters: Comicraft
Editor: Joey Cavalieri
Cover Art: Mike Zeck & Jerry Ordway
Publisher: DC Comics
Review: After a fairly disappointing first issue, the new Deadshot miniseries takes a distinct turn for the better this month. Floyd Lawton has moved into the Star City neighborhood where the daughter he never knew lives in constant danger from corrupt cops and street gangs. Wanting his daughter to be safe, he decides to clean up the streets – but an assassin like Deadshot only knows one way to do that: with blood.
My big criticism of the first issue was that Christos N. Gage spent too much of the title talking, with characters pontificating on Deadshot and explaining the character and situation in a very stilted way. Now that those expository issues are more or less out of the way and the story has taken the forefront, this issue is much stronger. Again, he manages to avoid the trap of making Deadshot a hero. Is he doing a good thing? Well – he has a noble cause, the protection of his daughter. But his methods are brutal, criminal and bloody, and he never drops the cold surface personality that keeps him divided from humanity.
The story isn’t perfect – there is one bit where the mother of his daughter starts to preach about affecting social change and blah blah blah, but overall it’s a much stronger issue, made better by a logical cameo at the end that promises an exciting fight next issue.
Steven Cummings and Jimmy Palmiotti do better this issue as well. Last issue their slums didn’t quite look slummy enough. This issue we see the slums mostly as people are involved in clean-up operations, and that serves the artwork better.
It got off to a rocky start, but I find I’m more impressed with Deadshot than I was a month ago. It may be worth the read after all.
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Quick Rating: Good
Title: Neighborhood Watch (Urban Renewal Part Two)
Deadshot is going to protect his daughter – even if he has to turn her home into a bloodbath!
<a href="http://www.comixtreme.com/gallery/data/media/764/deadshot2.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.comixtreme.com/gallery/data/thumbnails/764/deadshot2.jpg" align="left" border="0"></a>Writer: Christos N. Gage
Pencils: Steven Cummings
Inks: Jimmy Palmiotti
Colors: James Sinclair
Letters: Comicraft
Editor: Joey Cavalieri
Cover Art: Mike Zeck & Jerry Ordway
Publisher: DC Comics
Review: After a fairly disappointing first issue, the new Deadshot miniseries takes a distinct turn for the better this month. Floyd Lawton has moved into the Star City neighborhood where the daughter he never knew lives in constant danger from corrupt cops and street gangs. Wanting his daughter to be safe, he decides to clean up the streets – but an assassin like Deadshot only knows one way to do that: with blood.
My big criticism of the first issue was that Christos N. Gage spent too much of the title talking, with characters pontificating on Deadshot and explaining the character and situation in a very stilted way. Now that those expository issues are more or less out of the way and the story has taken the forefront, this issue is much stronger. Again, he manages to avoid the trap of making Deadshot a hero. Is he doing a good thing? Well – he has a noble cause, the protection of his daughter. But his methods are brutal, criminal and bloody, and he never drops the cold surface personality that keeps him divided from humanity.
The story isn’t perfect – there is one bit where the mother of his daughter starts to preach about affecting social change and blah blah blah, but overall it’s a much stronger issue, made better by a logical cameo at the end that promises an exciting fight next issue.
Steven Cummings and Jimmy Palmiotti do better this issue as well. Last issue their slums didn’t quite look slummy enough. This issue we see the slums mostly as people are involved in clean-up operations, and that serves the artwork better.
It got off to a rocky start, but I find I’m more impressed with Deadshot than I was a month ago. It may be worth the read after all.
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