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SUICIDE SQUAD #3
Writer: Adam Glass
Artist: Cliff Richards
Publisher: DC Comics
Reviewer: Optimous Douche
If you’re going to bemoan the loss of SECRET SIX or get @$$ed up about Amada Waller shedding a metric ton of weight making her look more Angela Basset than Mama from “Good Times” then just skip this review. I think you’ll be denying yourself a frantic reading experience filled with villainy goodness, but hell with it, the choice is ultimately yours.
Now, if you’re the type that can move faster than amber and are willing to say the past is just that, then why the hell aren’t you reading SUICIDE SQUAD?
Missions of epic bloodshed? Check. Questionable morals? Check. Batshit fucking crazy lunatics forced into helping the greater good? A big big check. SUICIDE SQUAD is everything I want from an action based comic; even in an issue that is supposed to be “down time” the scenes in this book come faster than a virgin on prom night.
Not skipping a heartbeat from their last mission, issue #3 shows the SQUAD trapped in a diner with their precious package, a baby whose blood is the antidote to the zombie strain that infected an entire sports stadium of spectators.
The first thing I loved about this issue was the “How I Met Your Mother” backwards chronology of presenting the action. Jumping from 21 minutes before present, back to two hours, and then flash forwarding again to the present was an interesting way to handle the mandatory exposition for new readers without boring those of us that have been in it to win it since the beginning. It also allowed Glass and Richards to start the book off with the action of Mad Dog and his hounds going right for SUICIDE SQUAD’s throat.
I usually hate “day in the life of” issues. You know what I mean--it’s those issues of the X-Men playing softball or the latest ACTION where we don’t even see a whisper of Superman or, ironically, any action. I’m as far away as they come from an adrenaline testosterone jockey, I’m OK with a lot of talk in books. But these are comics, damn it, and I do need at least a small dose of male nip to make the reading worth my while. SUICIDE SQUAD does a lot of hiding in this issue, but due to the fact most of the team is insane their day in the life is equally insane. During the two hour flashback Harley Quinn and Deadshot visit a local podunk market so their precious package doesn’t starve and the reaction from the locals is priceless. Kudos to Richards for remembering the backdrop is often more important than the foreground and also for some creative camera angles when Harley decides how she’s going to “pay” for their groceries. Also in this time, Harley and Deadshot do “the deed.” It was a great moment that was only trumped by Deadshot and Harley’s laisez-faire attitude towards their moment of intimacy.
This issue was also a stellar example of things to come as we learn there is far more to Diablo and Black Spider than meets the eye. It’s easy to see that these are our repentant criminals which will make their time in SUICIDE SQUAD wrought with even more tension. This statement becomes doubly true as two more team members join SUICIDE SQUAD at the end of the issue.
I won’t spoil who the newcomers are, but one is a Rogue that we got to know pretty damn well over the various CRISIS aftermaths from the past few years.
I can say without reservation SUICIDE SQUAD is one of the rare nuggets in the new 52 that hasn’t lost an ounce of momentum from the first issue and looks like it will only be getting better over the next few months.