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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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 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...