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Count Vertigo: The Hero at the Heart of Suicide Squad

Chase Magnett
September 15, 2016
Big Two, Columns, DC Comics, Suicide Squad
It is a beautiful day. You are standing on the cliffside of an island with the sun setting behind you. Waves crash against the rocks beneath, sending salt into the air, while the verdant grass and bushes blow...

Top 10 Best Suicide Squad Single Issues

Alison Baker
September 1, 2016
Big Two, DC Comics, Suicide Squad
Suicide Squad is 66 issues and two annuals of character-building bliss. It’s the rare series that delivers consistently smart, high-quality content, in both art and story. No one at DC Comics had ever done...

Rick Flag: A Series of Respectable Suicides

Jamil Scalese
August 26, 2016
Big Two, DC Comics, Suicide Squad
Even if you're familiar with DC's colorful catalog, no one would fault you for not knowing a damned thing about Rick Flag. Considering the company's vast pantheon of generic white military dudes, there's very...

Suicide Squad #4: The Return of William Hell and Racism as an Ongoing Force in American Politics

Chase Magnett
August 24, 2016
Big Two, Columns, DC Comics, Suicide Squad
A powerful businessman enters politics in order to promote his own agenda. He rallies lower-class white Americans around his demagoguery as a vibrant, crime fighting alter-ego armed with a crossbow. It is...

Podcast: Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou reads Suicide Squad #10—RCBC

Joseph Kyle Schmidt
August 22, 2016
DC Comics, Interviews, Reboot Comic Book Club, Suicide Squad
We're helping Comics Bulletin celebrate the Suicide Squad with our discussion of Issue 10, "Up Against the Wall," and we're having Hassan Osmane-Elhaou on the show! Download the MP3 | Subscribe on...
Suicide Squad #10 Cover. February 1988. DC Comics. John Ostrander (Writer). Luke McDonnell (Penciller). Bob Lewis (Inker). Todd Klein (Letterer). Julianna Ferriter (Colourist).

Batman Is Up Against The Wall in Suicide Squad #10

Ardo Omer
August 19, 2016
Big Two, Columns, DC Comics, Suicide Squad
Comics Bulletin’s very own Chase Magnett recommended this issue of Suicide Squad to me as an entry point into the series. It had three things I loved: Amanda “The Wall” Waller, Batman, and the two in...

Superpowers: The Suicide Squad and the End of the Cold War

Jason Sacks
August 17, 2016
Big Two, Classic Comics, DC Comics, Suicide Squad
Suicide Squad is one of the most unique super-hero comics ever published. It revels in antiheroes, features storylines with inconclusive endings, and takes place in the real world rather than the highly...

The Nightshade Odyssey: Magical Madness is Just Another Day at Belle Reve

Chase Magnett
August 12, 2016
Big Two, Columns, DC Comics, Suicide Squad
Black magic. Long lost siblings. Ancient gods. Incest. Possession. Alternate dimensions. These are not the plot points most readers expect to focus on when picking up Suicide Squad, but they are the...

A Bastard’s Bastard: Captain Boomerang & The Art of Self Love

Alison Baker
August 5, 2016
Big Two, Columns, DC Comics, Suicide Squad
Captain Boomerang - real name George “Digger” Harkness - first graced the pages of DC Comics in December 1960’s The Flash #117. John Broome and Carmine Infantino created him, like most of the other...

Deadshot: The Illusion of the Cool Anti-Hero

Chase Magnett
August 4, 2016
Big Two, Columns, DC Comics, Suicide Squad
Deadshot is the coolest character in Suicide Squad. When I first found the series at age 13, he was the character I immediately gravitated to simply based on the cover to Suicide Squad #6. Deadshot simply...

Amanda Waller: DC’s Most Terrifying Woman

Ardo Omer
August 3, 2016
Big Two, Columns, DC Comics, Suicide Squad
She’s wearing a grey shirt underneath a blue blazer and it’s tucked into a similarly blue skirt that stops at mid calf. She reminds me of the neighbourhood aunties I used to see leaving for church every...

The Suicide Squad: A Brief Introduction

Chase Magnett
August 3, 2016
Big Two, Columns, DC Comics, Suicide Squad
The Suicide Squad movie premieres this week. It’s the unlikeliest of DC Comics’ properties to receive a major Hollywood promotion, beating the likes of Wonder Woman, The Flash, and Aquaman to the big...

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