After The Phoenix Gambit re-established things and gave the book momentum, the creative team of Suicide Squad had the unenviable task of following it up in some way. Now, I suppose they could have gone for the next bannered storyline, which is what writing for the trade would get us about ten to fifteen years …
Month: May 2020
Suicide Squad #40-43
It's a year later. Amanda Waller still sits in a jail cell. The Squad is, effectively, dead. And a body of former notorious Eastern Block government official has landed in Gotham. Batman is on the case, but so is Sarge Steel, who decides to visit Waller in jail so that he they can take care …
Wild Wild Country
Wow, while I get to review a television show for the second time since starting this (I looked at the very first season of The 4400 a couple of days ago), I can finally check off "finished a television show". Granted, this is a miniseries that I'd been meaning to watch for a while, but …
Uncollecting Update April 2020
Well, as always, I’ll start with my numbers for the month … Media consumed # (remaining/total) Comics Read: 21 (252/355) Trade Paperbacks/Graphic Novels Read: 18 (45/77) Books Read: 7 (131/153) Movies to Watch: 6 (62/78) TV Shows Completed: 0 (17/17) Podcast Episodes Remaining: 131 I guess I was naive to think that this lockdown would …
Suicide Squad #32-39
Not that it was the big DC Comics company-wide crossover of 1989, but The Janus Directive was one of the few multi-book crossovers to be published between Invasion! and Armageddon 2001, so I guess you could say it was the closest that the company had to an "event" that year. I say this because the …
The 4400, Season 1
Over the course of several decades, 4400 people vanish in a flash of light, apparently abducted by aliens. Then, on done day, a ball of light appears in the Pacific Northwest and they all emerge having not aged a day. That's the premise for this sci-fi show that ran from 2004-2007, which takes its cues …
Some Comics in Brief 5/3/20
I've got some longer reviews for a huge chunk of Suicide Squad comics I've read in the last few weeks, and I was going to try to review all of these comics individually or at least in sets, but as I looked at the huge stack of comics that had piled up as a result, …
The Uncollecting 