Comic Title: Deadshot:Beginnings TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2013
On Sale Date: October 30, 2013 Direct Market Date October 30, 2013
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Direct Market Date October 30, 2013
Source: Previews, #298

Cover Price: $14.99
Page Count: 160
Editor: Robin Wildman

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Astride a Grave"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Deadshot (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Kim Yale
Writer: John Ostrander
Artist: Luke McDonnell
Letterer: Timothy Harkins
Colorist: Julianna Ferriter

Reprinted From:
Deadshot #4 (1988)

Feature Character(s)

• Deadshot (last appearance in Deadshot #3; next appearance in Suicide Squad #22)

Supporting Character(s)

• Genevieve Lawton (last appearance in Deadshot #3; no further appearances)

Villain(s)

• Philip Schale (dies in this story; last appearance in Deadshot #2; no further appearances)
• Andy Haskell (dies in this story; last appearance in Deadshot #2; no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Marnie Herrs (last appearance in Deadshot #3; next appearance in Suicide Squad #23)
• Amanda Waller (last appearance in Deadshot #1; next appearance in Suicide Squad #19)
• Simon LaGrieve (last appearance in Deadshot #1; next appearance in Suicide Squad #19)

Other Character(s)

• Joe Truscott (last appearance in Deadshot #3; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued from Deadshot #3.

Synopsis:
Philip Schale is taken out of the hospital by his assistant Andy Haskell. Deadshot holds both men responsible for the murder of his son. Haskell kills Schale in order to convince Deadshot to spare his life. Deadshot kills Haskell anyway.

Meanwhile, Marnie Herrs question Floyd's mother about the death of her son. She suspects that Genevieve Lawton told Floyd to kill his father and after wounding him, Floyd accidentally killed his brother. When Deadshot interrupts the meeting, he reveals the truth. It was his brother Eddie who tried to kill his father. Floyd tried to stop him and missed, resulting in Eddie Lawton's death.

Floyd also knows that his mother was behind the kidnapping of his son. She wanted Floyd to finish the job and kill his father. Instead Floyd shoots her in the back, leaving her a cripple. Marnie and Amanda Waller provide an alibi for Lawton, so that he escapes additional criminal charges.