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Podcast: The Source Material Comics Podcast
Episode: Unspoken Issues #158- Deathstroke - "City of Assassins"
Description: Gotham isn’t just dark in this episode — it’s a city of assassins, and Jesse Starcher is joined by Dean Compton and Darry to take on one of the most important early-’90s DC arcs: Deathstroke the Terminator #6–9. The big historical hook? As Dean points out, this storyline marks the first time Batman meets Deathstroke in DC continuity, a moment that echoes all the way into modern games, cartoons, and pop-culture perceptions of Slade as a “Batman villain.”From there, the conversation turns into a smart, funny, and surprisingly thoughtful deep-dive on what makes Deathstroke tick — not just as a badass...