I love this title. What a great job Priest is doing. And I'm a huge fan of Pasarin's art on this book. We are left with a big cliffhanger at the end. And I cannot wait for more. Read Full Review

In Deathstroke #37, Priest allows readers to experience an inmate's life inside Arkham Asylum without the need for a straitjacket. For better or worse, some of this may be confusing because of the issue's focus on gaslighting Deathstroke. Read Full Review

I have no clue where Priest is going here, but it's clear he has a lot more ideas and this run isn't missing a beat after the Batman arc. Read Full Review

This has been a really enjoyable arc with Priest playing off reader expectation and Pasarin delivering some of the best art of his career. Read Full Review

Not a statement I often use, but this arc may actually read better in trade format. It is interesting and engaging, but difficult to follow up to this point. Read Full Review

There's no reason to believe the next issue of Deathstroke will be any less confusing, but whenever the payoff comes it'll be worth the wait. Read Full Review

All-in-all, this was a pretty solid issue. Despite a lack of action or adventure, Priest is telling a mystery story that really grabs the audience and pulls them in. If he can stick the landing on the reveal of just what is going on with Arkham and Slade, then he just might have a classic Deathstroke story on his hands. Only time will tell, but, as of this issue, its quite a ride. Read Full Review

Deathstroke #37 is confusing but in the best way possible. It forces its reader to think and read closely. Priest pens a brilliantly bizarre story that challenges the conventions of normal storytelling. Pasarin, as usual, delivers some solid lines. For a medium that is often dismissed as peripheral spectacle, Deathstroke #37 is a fantastic retort, showing how comics can be intelligent art. This issue is a cerebral delight. Give this one a shot. Read Full Review

While I'm still on board with this arc and still love this series as a whole, this issue felt off to me and was really jarring to read because of its disjointed nature that the story was being presented in.  The art continues to be great and there are definitely some interesting things going on here, but right now it's all too strange to get a grasp of what's really happening in the book, which comes off in the end as not a lot of substance.  Hopefully, everything comes together in the end. Read Full Review

As with any storyline set in an insane asylum, you always run the risk of the end result appearing convoluted as the writer tries tie dozens of loose ends together. That's not necessarily what's happening here ,but two issues into this arc and I'm not quite sure they're executing the idea as well as they could have. Read Full Review

Much better than last issue. This issue feels purposefully convoluted and crazy, unlike previous installments.

Strongest issue in a while, mainly by being unpredictable. Also by not being at all preachy about the failings of the mental health care system. A long overdue return to form.

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Batman Jones - Nov 8, 2018

Nice review but after so many years of showing us Arkham I'd really welcome some preachiness about the failings of our mental health care system. For the most part, if one isn't very wealthy, longtime mental health facilities are barely better than prison. Many of them are way worse. What would be preachy about pointing that out?

Simon DelMonte - Nov 8, 2018

Let me rephrase my comment then: without clumsy preachiness of the sort that makes reading the comic book a chore. I know Priest can and does address real world issues well sometimes, but sometimes he's really clumsy. His recent run on Justice League ended up that way.

Batman Jones - Nov 8, 2018

Fair enough. I agree it was a really strong issue.

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Wow! It's been three months since my last review of Deathstroke. This is a strange story. At the end of the last issue, Slade and Devon had escaped the Asylum and the cliffhanger was that they were presumably abducted by aliens.

This issue opens up with Slade back in his cell with no one acknowledging the escape. Devon has also gone missing. No one remembers him except for Hugo Strange. The Doctor denies that it happened at all and asks that he retrace the steps used to escape. 

After failing to find a way out of the Asylum. Slade is sent to a virtual group therapy session where the goal is for the Arkham inmate's to team up and kill Batman. During this session, Deathstroke makes a connection with Two-Face as he offers to help him out.

It's so strange that I have all of these comics with Two-Face as the villain. I'm also reviewing the current run of Detective Comics and Harvey Dent features heavily. He's one of my least favorite Bat-Villains but the dynamic between the characters is admittedly interesting. 

While this is going on the perspective shifts to Deathstroke's children as they work to complete a hit in Arkham. 

The entire issue is strange and closest comic I can compare this arc to is Jeff Lemire's, Moon Knight. The story is interesting but a bit hard to follow if you haven't been following the series closely. I imagine you'll get more out of this issue and series if you've been following monthly. The issue looks great.

Fernando Pasarin is really good at portraying these characters and action within this issue.  Christopher gives him a lot of material to work with. The aesthetic of the issue is appropriately dark and confusing. I would normally complain at this point but since the issue is telling the reader that the setting is not what it seems I'm totally onboard.

I'm having fun with the comic because of the sheer insanity of the events but I'm not sure if I should be recommending it. It seems like an arc that may be better enjoyed in trade. That may be why it took me so long to review the second issue. This may be an arc I cover in video form once I have all the details. It's not a bad arc. It's just really strange. more

Okay, Priest, you have my full attention once more, after rather underwhelming (for the series' standards, that is) Robin's paternity arc. The issue is convoluted, but in a good way, the one we've got pleasure reading in the past. Priest managed to cleverly utilize Two-Face, at which James Robinson failed pretty badly in his Detective Comics take just recently, Rose returned and has to do few things on her own, and possibly most importantly, the comic features very little solid information, making the reader feel lost and confused. And that's the beauty of insanity - you can't tell whether something's true or false, which in tories set in an asylum, is crucial.
Really enjoyed the read, highly recommend it to those who are already familiar with the series. If you want to start with Deathstroke, you hould definitely pick up #1, otherwise amount of content, reminders and references will eat you alive. more

Eh the issue left me with a lot of questions. I thought I knew what was going on until I got to the end of the issue. Although artwork was good, the story left me uncertain.