This is not a spoiler, as it is on the cover. Or if it is a spoiler, it's only as much a spoiler as the cover is. And I'm not sure how I feel about this: Flag in love with Harley is way more messed up than the Suicide Squad has ever been, aka I don't buy it. That doesn't stop this from being ...
This is what you get because I am completely lame and not funny at all. This has turned out to be more of an extended story than I expected, but a lot of fun.
It's nice to see the old school meet the new school, especially since this story is compelling and the interactions are realistic, with the usual twists and turns I'd expect to find in comics. The side story ties into the main story - and by side story I mean the last couple pages at the back t...
The Suicide Squad - the current Suicide Squad - has to clean up the mess that the original squad left. The original Task Force X, the original Suicide Squad, was far more benign: heroes, choosing to sacrifice for the good of all mankind. Except they didn't quite manage to finish off the Red Wav...
The Squad gets talked, and coerced into going to what promises to be a fatal mission for them on the moon. Some nice interaction, some nice history on Task Force X - going back to the original team which was far different than the Suicide Squad in the backstory, and some nice interaction between...
Marvel has done rather well with characters who are in trauma, mentally unstable, and need self care. Wanda realized she was being used by her brother, who she decided was a psychopath who left her to deal with trauma that was unbearable after he pushed her into those situations. A while ago, Wo...
Millar takes a Super Friends style superhero team and places them in a surprisingly realistic America of the Fifties and early Sixties. A closeted gay hero is blackmailed by the FBI with the threat of his secret life being exposed. Another hero has an affair with a woman half his age and ends up mak...
The endings are always sort of mind blowing for me: they make sense, but they seem to come out of nowhere at the same time. They also are cliffhangers that lead into the next issue - although I can never guess quite where they're going until I read that issue. Still, I enjoy getting to that end...
I did like how the politics meshed with the superhero plot line, but it was all a little slow. Then again, Mark Millar is usually explosively violent when he writes, and this was a lot slower. I think my expectations really bogged me down here. Regardless, I didn't have nearly as much fun with ...
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