With a slight pivot in direction having taken place and a five-part bannered storyline to kick things off, the creative team of the Suicide Squad seemed to be committed to keeping the book humming along even if, as I mentioned in my previous review, I didn't think it totally worked. But that's not without trying …
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Suicide Squad #53-58
With the Squad officially not part of the government anymore (therefore relinquishing the "Task Force X" moniker), they've essentially gone full A-Team, taking assignments when they can. And while most of the characters that we have seen throughout the title are still hanging around, this kind of feels like we're heading into the final season …
Team America #1
Man, you will pick up some random stuff when it's the end of your time at a comics show and you're elbow deep in a fifty cent bin. I mean, that has to be the only reason I own this particular book, because I can't imagine why I would have picked it up. It came …
Suicide Squad #51, 52
After the big "family reunion" of the previous issue and before what will be a multi-part storyline beginning in issue #53, the Suicide Squad takes a couple of issues for some individual character development and focus, starting with Deadshot and continuing with Dr. Light. In the former story, someone has Deadshot's suit and is using …
Badger #43, 44, 45
A few reviews ago, I was seriously considering ditching the rest of my Badger run for the sake of my own sanity, especially since I haven't been as satisfied with this title as I thought I was going to be when I fished it out of a quarter bin last year. Two of these three …
Gilgamesh II
Back in the early 1990s when I was constantly on the hunt for back issues of The New Titans, I used to come across a house ad for a series called Gilgamesh II, which was written and drawn by Jim Starlin. The ad showed an open escape pod from a spaceship and had copy that …
Suicide Squad #44-47
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 