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“Quiet you. I’m gonna take a peek and see where he’s at.”

Very nice how the dialogue tells us what the art can not.
Simply genius.

Looks like it could be fun…

weeooo, weeooo!
ssssshhhh!

Ummm, did he just kill off Deadshot? Ughh, make it stop.

What Comic? I got stuck looking for an Asian wife. What The…?

Did he ask to kill off Deadshot or did he just assume that he could since nobody said otherwise?

So what happens to the Secret Six?

They get busted by the cops when a donkey show goes awry.

man, i hope this isn’t canon… if it is, i wanna see Catman rip Onomatopoeia to shreds.

Yawn.
This is going to be as boring as that Spider-Man/Black Cat mini and his Daredevil/Bullseye snoozefest.
I’ve yet to enjoy a Kevin Smith comic, with maybe the exception of the Mahfood Clerks comic

Seriously, don’t tell me that’s the death of Deadshot. Secret Six is one of the only two good DC books out there right now.

Nah! Deadshot’s better than that…

If he’d been paid to off Joker, he wouldn’t be telling him about it, he’d have already done it…

Yeah, I doubt he actually intends to kill Deadshot.

Then again, this IS the same dude who killed off MystiqueMysterio AND Karen Page just to give his first comic work some “oomph,” so who knows?

Brian, you mean Mysterio, right?

Yep!

Odds on Batman being raped and Nightcrawler making an intercompany crossover to do some needlessly long exposition before the series is over (2011)?

So how many years will this three issue miniseries be spread out across?

Crap. Seriously, what’s the deal with Onomatapeia? Basically a Deadshot, except instead of talking he just says sound effects out loud. What’s the point?

I’m in two minds about this. Love Smith’s films, for the mostpart, and his run on Green Arrow got me into the DCU proper (as well as Ennis’s Hitman), but this leaves me cold.

Although he’s quite obviously not going to kill off Deadshot.

I’d just wish they’d make an editorial decision on Joker’s Chelsea smile. It seems not to be in continuity other than in Morrison’s run, but surely that should dictate the present state of affairs more than Joker’s non-Bats appearances?

Ah modern comic books. Taking five pages when it could’ve easily been 1 and a half.

I don’t get it…

Granted, I’m not the biggest comics reader any more (one too many OMGEVENTS), but who is the guy taking down Deadshot here?

I also find the art rather than uneven. It’s really good on most things, especially the interesting angles on Deadshot, but the Joker is pug ugly here. I think I’d like the art if not for the Joker, which is too bad.

Xander, the villain is Onomatopoeia. He has only appeared once before, during Kevin Smith’s Green Arrow run.

Other writers liked him so much that they all kept wanting to have him appear in their books, but DC would always clear it with Smith, and he would always ask if they wouldn’t mind not using him, as Smith wanted to use the character again in the future.

This Batman mini-series is the return of Onomatopoeia.

Would have been nice if Smith showed the same respect and asked if he could use/kill Deadshot.

Besides the fact that the book is officially out of continuity (or rather, it does not follow current continuity), I sincerely doubt even the hackiest of writers would have a character they created kill Deadshot like that, so I assume it is some sort of trick/ruse/whatever.

Smith gave a recent interview where he spoke highly of Deadshot, so I doubt he intends on killing him off, even if the book was in continuity.

^Brian, are you denying people their largely usubstantially based anger about a comic that they haven’t read yet?!? Oh internet, what have we come to.

Oh thank god! I love Deadshot.

Other writers liked him so much that they all kept wanting to have him appear in their books, but DC would always clear it with Smith, and he would always ask if they wouldn’t mind not using him, as Smith wanted to use the character again in the future.

Are you being sarcastic? I haven’t seen much of the character except a panel here or there but he just seems to be a blank slate with trenchcoat who says sound effects out loud. What am I missing about his appeal? Can anyone tell me?

I’m not saying the guy is a great character, just that other writers liked him so much that they all kept wanting to have him appear in their books.

Maybe they liked the blank slate nature of the character and wanted to fill it in themselves.

I’ve seen Smith explain the appeal as (paraphrased, of course) the fact that the character can only work as a comic book character. The “spoken sound effects” thing wouldn’t work in film, where it would look ridiculous… even in a novel, it wouldn’t have the same effect. But in comics, they can make a distinction between a person saying “boom” and a person speaking “(sound effect for Boom)”.

One of the ‘Green Arrow’ issues, there was an image of (not gonna spell it) that was really chilling, so I can see his point.

Then again, this IS the same dude who killed off MystiqueMysterio AND Karen Page just to give his first comic work some “oomph,” so who knows?

Also worth mentioning that Mysterio didn’t even belong in that book…

Honestly, what was he scared of?
That no one would buy it?
He was that years marketing coup for Marvel!

I’m not saying the guy is a great character, just that other writers liked him so much that they all kept wanting to have him appear in their books.

Why create and leave a character in a shared universe if you’re not interested in having others play with them?
Somewhat selfish.

Kevin Smith can’t kill off Deadshot.

Thanks for the explanation, Brian. I looked up the character in my copy of The DC Comics Encyclopedia, but your description was ultimately the more informative.