But then later on full on F-bombs were being dropped without getting edited out. One thing that I found odd is that Jason Todd's curses were bleeped out at the beginning of the book. It's like looking at a bunch of character sketches that were thrown together with bullet effects added in. It's so static looking and there's no flow from panel to panel. The last half of this is just characters running with no backgrounds and bullets flying everywhere. Maleev fell really behind (It took 8 months for the final issue to come out.) and it shows. Unfortunately that really goes nowhere after the initial shock value.Įven Alex Maleev's art isn't up to his usual standards. He gets a hold of Amanda Waller's Boom Box that allows her to explode Suicide Squad's members' heads. He does do one interesting thing in this that in more capable hands could have been really interesting. He's just a thug backed by Russia to cause chaos. They are sent on a mission to kill the Joker. It's an Elseworlds story where Red Hood is arrested for murdering criminals and takes over as leader of the Suicide Squad. He makes Wild Dog part of the Insurrection on Jan 6th to get some buzz for the book.īut that's not even the core of the story. It's not difficult to imagine a different series in which Jason Todd terrorizes the metahuman yard as though this were a season arc from Oz, but that's a comic for better realities.Once again, Brian Azzarello mistakes shock value for a good story. Azzarello's dialogue remains quippy enough to cloak the exposition and it quickly leads to prison where the writer lingers in territory he previously relished in comics like Hellblazer and 100 Bullets. Red Hood's introduction provides all of the context an unfamiliar reader might need, complete with an effective splash from Maleev, as he is shanghaied into the Squad.

The introductions, before any violence commences in the 48-page issue's back half, provide a very specific form of genre enjoyment as low-level creeps and sociopaths are placed in hostile environments together. Unfortunately, the fun times never really materialize as even a few final bloody pages are more eyebrow-raising than thrilling. It sounds like a fun enough time with plenty of killable characters to really indulge that 'Black Label' stamp. He is first tasked with leading a team-primarily consisting of also-ran's and never-were's as well as Harley Quinn-to assassinate Joker in the middle of Gotham City. Jason Todd) finds himself imprisoned and therefore enrolled in Amanda Waller's Suicide Squad.

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