This edition of DEATHSTROKE COVERED spotlights the cover to Titans (2008) #31 penciled by Fabrizio Fiorentino. This was just one of a line-wide slate of DC Character Spotlight themed covers that graced comic book shop shelves in January of 2011. The simplistic design more than accomplished the goal of highlighting Deathstroke by eliminating the visual background noise of scenery and background characters in favor of minimal branding and title graphics, not unlike the current crop of DC Comics minimum graphics variant covers. Fiorentino's Deathstroke is rendered in the foreground like a coiled cobra ready to strike at any moment. But the background logo, which prominently incorporates a sniper scope's crosshairs has since become synonymous with Deathstroke, so much so that I chose it for this blog's Favicon. Despite the inverted direction of the guards on the Deathstroke sword, this is one of my favorite Deathstroke-centric covers.
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| Art by Fabrizio Fiorentino |
