Exclusive DC Preview: Deathstroke #14

03/01/2017 06:34 pm EST

DC has provided ComicBook.com with an exclusive first look at Deathstroke #14 from writer Christopher Priest and artist Joe Bennett.

It's the third part of the currently-ongoing "Twilight" storyline, and you can check out the official synopsis below, along with the preview pages in the attached image gallery.

"TWILIGHT" part three! In exchange for dropping all the charges against him, Deathstroke takes a contract for U.S. Naval Intelligence that proves far more difficult than it should, and encounters an unexpected new ally in teenager Tanya Spears, a.k.a. Power Girl!

"Part of my goal though was to reclaim ground -- and I mean this with all due respect to writers who have come before me, but to reclaim some ground for Deathstroke that Deadpool had taken from him," Priest told ComicBook.com back when the series started. "Because Deadpool is the echo of Deathstorke, not the other way around. And we don't want Deathstroke to look like he's some kind of ripoff of Deadpool but Deadpool is huge now. He's huger than huge. I don't even work for Marvel and let's just say Deadpool's been very nice to me lately."

"So I definitely had a conscious goal to reassert Deathstroke as his own man, as his own character in a unique way," the writer added. "He's not at all funny. There's humor in the book but Deathstroke himself is not. He has no sense of humor, and it is nothing at all like Deadpool."

So far, it's working: Deathstroke has been a must-read for DC fans since Rebirth started, and with more than a dozen issues in the rear view mirror and the first trade paperback working its way to comic shops next week, the series has successfully re-established Deathstroke in such a way that to see him throwing down with the Titans and Teen Titans in a crossover event in the May solicitations doesn't seem beyond his skillset.

Deathstroke #14 is in stores on March 8. You can get a copy by calling your local comics retailer to have it reserved, or pre-order a digital copy now.

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