Although steeped in the politics and events of the Reagan-era that birthed it, Suicide Squad offers a lot to new readers. DC's current "villain-centric" comics like Secret Six, and the previous limited series Villains Unlimited owe almost everything to the Suicide Squad.
Writer and creator John Ostrander took some of the least popular, castoff villains of the DC Universe and made them compelling characters by exploring what made them tick, and the gritty Luke McDonnell artwork complements these largely dark and brooding stories of low-powered supers engaging in acts of espionage and counter-terrorism.
You can get this TPB on Amazon, or better yet, find a copy at your local comic shop here. That's where I bought mine!
Either way, you won't be disappointed!
--Scott
One of my favorite comics of the era! Along with Vigilante, Green Arrow (Longbow Hunters era).
ReplyDeleteYou are definitely the patron saint of lost comics!
ReplyDeleteI liked Suicide Squad too. I've been spending too much time and money either reading the Marvel and DC Wikias or reading comics on my iPhone.
ReplyDeleteI've bought some graphic novels or TPBs too when I hadn't bought a comic in years and years. I like Marvel comics better, but I think DC often does a better job at team books and the big universe changing events.
I enjoyed Darkest Night and now am following Brightest Day. It doesn't hurt that old JLI which was also late 80s early 90s is back...
Superman to me was always just too damn powerful and had a lot of corny baggage. And Batman has been broken, killed, and retconned so much. It seems there are three batmans and three robins at least. Some of the stand alone stories are good, but Batman seems to have gotten too big for his britches, I like the smaller comics.
I even see the Microverse may be coming back. I was a big Micronaughts fan, but generally after it had already run it's course. I liked ROM too and Master of Kung Fu.
I don't know if they'll ever be digitized or released as a TPB. But I'd like to one day collect a complete run of some of those old late 70s and early 80s comics. That was my prime comic reading age, though I got back into them in the early 90s when a comic shop opened in my home town.
Lots of good thoughts there, Muskie! I really am excited about all of the great reprints coming down the pipe now. It's great to have a lot of this stuff in TPB form.
ReplyDeleteThe more the merrier!