Deathstroke (New 52) # 13 0

[Gatsby77]

I'd like some help identifying this image.

I thought it was Rob Liefeld's cover to Deathstroke (2012 / New 52) # 13, but googling online it looks like it wasn't actually used as the published cover.

Was it used as a variant cover?

If not, was it used elsewhere?

 

[GeeksAreMyPeeps]

Hopefully it was just thrown in the garbage. Seriously, what is even going on here?

[Qalyar]

That's not a published cover that I'm aware of, although that doesn't mean there isn't something out there that used it.

But that's also going on my list of "why Liefeld art is hard to like". Deathstroke has clearly been replaced by a robot -- now with giant metal foot-stompin' action!! Which also explains how he's keeping hold of that sword: magnetism. And Liefeld clearly decided that was enough "feet" for one day, so made the other cover character a double below-the-knee amputee to avoid needing to draw any more of them.

[500Club]

If the guy with the gun on the left gets a shot off, Deathstroke will be speaking in a higher voice from here on in. 

[kairos70]

From what information I gathered it is just a image that was used for solicitation not at actual comic cover (i.e. Previews, Comicshop news,etc.) The way Deathstroke's legs are drawn in this image he would be about 5'7 instead of his actual height of 6'4.