Summery: The issue opens up with a some gun toting hockey mask wearing bounty hunter by the name of Mad Dog trying to apprehend the Squad. Some rather innovative quick thinking on the part of Harley allows them to escape that jam and the Squad tries to lay low in Madisonville as they wait for their evac. Because of his inability to "blend in" King Shark is told to stay put in the woods while the other remaining Squad members temporarily go off in pairs (Deadshot-Harley / Diablo - Black Spider).Harley, who has become increasingly more infatuated with Deadshot due to his leadership role and his lack of emotional availability makes some rather strong advances toward DS who initially resists but not for long. Meanwhile, while off looking for supplies with Black Spider, Diablo finds out through the news that Voltaic was shot and surmises that it was Deadshot who killed him and not the tech zombies.
Mad Dog catches up the the Squad again but a brief gun battle puts an end to Mad Dog's henchmen and has him on the run into the loving embrace of King Shark. Black Spider is seriously injured but with Diablo's help (and Harley's!) makes it to the evac. Deadshot delivers the baby and just when they think the mission is over they get new orders to stay in the field for the next mission. Along with new orders they get some fresh recruits, some guy named Yo-Yo and Captain Boomerang. And it gets better, apparently Boomerang is the new mission leader!
My thoughts: If you were thinking that maybe I liked it based on the summery you would be right. With the more established characters like Deadshot, Harley and King Shark we see a consistency with what we would expect in terms of character development. Harley especially really shines in this issue with her usual antics and even with a moment of uncharacteristic display of what appears to be compassion at one point. They've also started to give Black Spider a little more to do in the story who for a while there I was thinking was gonna be the next casualty. Diablo is still pretty cool as the "seeking redemption" member of the group although I have a bad feeling about him down the road. I'm curious to see what this Yo-Yo guy is all about and of course who's not happy about Boomerang joining the Squad. It's starting to feel a little more like the good old days of the John Ostrander Squad again although we don't get to see too much of Waller in this issue. By the way it seems in this Suicide Squad reboot Deadshot and Boomerang already know each other but more on that later I'm sure and it appears as if Deadshot may be infected with the virus even though he hasn't displayed any acute symptoms as of yet.
Warning: Any comments complaining about Waller's weight loss or Harley's sex appeal will be deleted. I've had it with people whining and bitching about that crap so I'm at least not gonna listen to it here on my own blog.
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Nice review - I wonder if Mad Dog is the new Wild Dog from back in the day. Same hockey mask, and the Suicide Squad would make sense for him. I hope so. I mean he may have been a drop in the puddle, but I sure picked up his books in the 80's.
ReplyDeleteDan - I was wondering the same thing based on David's description. I think the trade collecting these first issues just climbed up my to buy list.
ReplyDeletehey Dan ya know it's funny cause when i first started writing the review i accidentally wrote "Wild Dog" cause i also picked up that mini-series back in the late 80's. at the time the whole Friday the 13th slasher movies was still in the forefront of pop culture consciousness so i think the character got some initial interest because of the connection. but to be honest i wasn't too "wild" about Wild Dog and never followed the character beyond that.
ReplyDeleteHaHa I knew you wouldn't stay away from this one. This is Harley's coming out party and I love it. The first three issues of the book has shown different sides to the Jokers pookie wookie. And I'm diggin Dr.Quinn. To make this issue even better Boomerang is back and the artist did a bang up job on his facial expressions and mannerisms. Even though this guy has no manners.
ReplyDeletethat's right huh she was a doctor. nothing wrong with a Jewish doctor of course unless the other side of their family is Catholic and you end up with something like Harley Quinn.
ReplyDeleteDan you bugger, i saw your posting this morning about you nixing The Squad from your pull list from now on. right on the heels of Captain Boomerang's debut no less ya bleedn dingo!
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ReplyDeleteThat no can do!
Hurray!
ReplyDeleteI was able to post finally!
I'm really digging this new Suicide Squad,
Obviously, having Captain Boomerang back is one of the reasons I'm happy with it, but I'm loving the pace of the book.
Aliera, where have you been buying your copies of the new Suicide Squad series? i remember you saying before that there are comic shops in Portugal. how many euros does each one cost you?
ReplyDeleteIt depends on the comic. 3 to 4 or 5 euros, I never buy just one so I never asked the individual price. Some of my purchases are standing orders, so they get cheaper, and some are not. Usually it is the equivalent of the price in $. Meaning a 2.99 DC issue should (I mean should) be 2.99 €
ReplyDeleteDan , said on his blog that he pays up to $7.50 American equivalent for his per issue. and i think, that's by mail. well i'm really glad you like this series so far too. thank you that was very interesting information.
ReplyDeleteCrap on a cracker has it been hard to get on a computer around here lately. Almost as hard as it is to get my hands on a comic book these days. But from the looks of it, I'm going to be hunting up issues of this one. I'd love for the squad to stumble across the Joker at some point though. He's not dead, right? Did I miss that?
ReplyDeletewell i don't know about cracker crapping but i'm glad to have you back! a friend of mine from work loaned me Detective Comics #1 in which it appeared (operative word here) that the Joker's face was cut off by the Doll Maker. it was a really creep issue it had the whole "Silence of the Lambs" thing going on.
ReplyDeletejust a head's up you can see more of the interior art in my video.