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Fukk your corny debates
What time they come out digitally?
the classic run by ostrander and the 12 issue run that Keith Giffen had are both crack.
anything having to do with forcing Harley Quinn down our throats can kick rocks.
12am, right? Comixology?
What do you think of Savage Avengers?
AquaCityBoy
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Suicide Squad Returning In New Comic Series from 'Injustice' Team
As it turns out, things will be very different for the Suicide Squad when the series debuts, as Taylor revealed when Heat Vision talked to him about taking over the fan-favorite title via email.
Let’s start with the big one: What is the Suicide Squad now? It’s been an army unit of disposable soldiers for special missions, a government agency of daredevils and scientists on the fringe, a covert task force of supervillains for missions either too deadly or politically sensitive for regular operatives, and a private mercenary team for hire to whoever’s feeling most generous. With Event Leviathan taking place in current DC comic books — reorganizing the status quo of the world’s intelligence agencies as it goes — can you even give a hint about what the Suicide Squad is going to be in your book?
For a long time, there's been a sense of safety around the Suicide Squad. The anti-heroes and villains have gone out on the mission, fought dirty, won dirty and most of them have come home. In our book, that's not the case any more. The team we send out in issue one won't all live through the first mission. DC characters with years of history are going to be confined to history after issue one. Truly, no one is safe.
There's a new regime, and the new regime sees this team as assets and nothing more. They don't care if they lose them in the field, they can always get more. And they do get more. Alongside fan-favorites like Harley Quinn and Deadshot, all new characters are going to be debuting in this book. New powered people are coming, and they do not want to be there. This is the most divided the Suicide Squad will have ever been. The missions will be hard, but surviving each other may be the hardest of all.
Suicide Squad is a comic with a long history at DC, but one of the constants of the comic, especially since John Ostrander took on the concept in 1986, is change. There are all kinds of recurring characters in the different incarnations of the team, but the only one who’s stuck around continually is the big boss, Amanda Waller. Should fans expect the same this time out?
There are going to be a whole lot of changes in our series. So much change, in fact, that issue two is practically a new number one. But we're taking that even further. I can't say how, but the entire book is going to change [and] veer in a direction we haven't seen in the Squad before. Honestly, I'm not even promising Amanda Waller makes it past issue one.
You’ve been teasing people who follow you on social media with some newcomers to the team — who happen to be all-new characters you and Bruno are creating. I’ll be honest: Between Injustice and DCeased, you’ve gotten a reputation for being a writer unafraid to kill your darlings, literally. Are you creating new characters so you can have cannon fodder down the line, Tom?
Why create new characters to be cannon fodder when you have a list of established characters you can kill off? [Cackles maniacally.]
One of the main things I want to do with this series, and editors Brian Cunningham and Andrea Shea are with me one hundred percent, is to push the idea of these actually being suicide missions. No reader should know what to expect when picking up this book. We don't want anyone reading our series and thinking, "well, they can't die because they're in the movie." No one is off limits here. Our new characters, and some more obscure established DC characters, offer us a chance to have real stakes. If someone dies in our team, they're not coming back. We want readers going in with a sense of nervousness. Yes, there will be some despair for our team, but their victories will be sweeter. When and if they survive, it will feel big.
Our characters are from all over the world — we've already teased Thylacine from Australia and the teleporter, Wink — and they all know each other. We in the creative team are already close to them, but not as close as they are to each other. We still don't know who'll make it and who won't. Don't get attached.
One of the joys of Suicide Squad as a concept — in comics, TV appearances and even the movie — has been the chance to see some obscure supervillains from the DC back catalog given their long-awaited due. Again, just looking at your Injustice work makes it clear that you’ve got a deep and genuine affection for DC mythology, so is this a tradition we’ll see continued with the new series? And if so, any names you want to drop as a tease…?
We'll absolutely see some more obscure villains. We'll see some very early on, and I have a list of more I want to use if... say, unfortunate things happen to some of them. We have Cavalier, who I think is ridiculous, but the squad needs ridiculous, Shark, Zebra Man — who has great, unique powers, Magpie — who I've always associated with that first team-up of Superman and Batman, and others.
The book brings you back together with your Injustice partner Bruno Redondo; the two of you made a formidable team on that book, and it’s clear from the response to your social media teases that fans are excited to see you work together again. What is it about the two of you that gets people so worked up? Or, if you’re feeling too humble to proclaim your combined genius, what is it about Bruno’s work that gets you so excited?
Bruno and I have been working together for around eight years and he's one of my favorite artists in the world. He's been off drawing a little book called Justice League for a while, and both of us have been getting edgy with this time spent apart. So, I'm overjoyed we could get him for this.
In many ways he's my dream collaborator. We speak the same storytelling language, and we have the same storytelling values. We value the acting of the characters above anything else, and Bruno has this rare gift to make readers feel more than almost any other artist. The loud bits and the quiet. He nails comedy and he nails sorrow. His acting is subtle and nuanced. Lots of brilliant artists can draw Batman punching someone in the face and grimacing. Bruno can draw Harley Quinn covering heartache with a smile.
Getting to create all new characters with Bruno for DC is a bit of a dream. We hope you love all the of new characters, and we hope some of them survive our Suicide Squad.
'Suicide Squad' Returning In New Comic Series from 'Injustice' Team
This is a really good match-up of writer to book.
I thought Azzarello was doing Suicide Squad.
I know he's doing Birds of Prey, but there were rumors of an Azzarello Suicide Squad for over a year.
AquaCityBoy
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damn the orville got a comic?
It's a four issue miniseries by Dark Horse that takes place between seasons one and two.
Da Rhythm Rebel
All Star
Smackdown was decent today
Hickman really gave us a version of Runway Sinister
Hickman really gave us a version of Runway Sinister
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Jmare007
pico pal q lee
Yeah, PoX #4 was fine, felt like it ended right in the middle of what it wanted to show/accomplish. We'll see if once this whole thing is finished, it was worth it/made sense to have this kind of issue at this point of the story.
Those Sinister Secrets
have people figured them out?
There's more than one pretender
Next week is the first "red" book of the series, can't wait
Those Sinister Secrets
have people figured them out?There's more than one pretender
Next week is the first "red" book of the series, can't wait
Red Shield
Global Domination
Yeah, PoX #4 was fine, felt like it ended right in the middle of what it wanted to show/accomplish. We'll see if once this whole thing is finished, it was worth it/made sense to have this kind of issue at this point of the story.
Those Sinister Secrets
There's more than one pretender
Next week is the first "red" book of the series, can't wait
It's the second red book. The first red was HoX2.
Best from what I can figure regarding the secrets
1. Just some gossipy joke shyt
2. I don't know. Trying to think of a mutant who has come back recently but was fashionable.
3. Definitely Madelyne Pryor related
4. I got no idea.
5. Wolverine, Jean, Cyclops related? Wolverine because of the best at what he does thing. But I don't think Cyclops and Jean are currently married. Hmmm
6. Ernst was in a story with Sinister and she was the mole.
7. Other Summers children. Believable... Corsair got the fukk around didn't he
8. This is obvious as hell. Apoc's OG horsemen.
9. Phoenix and Jean Grey
10. So the mutant Sinister they brainwashed got whacked and replaced by a different Sinister
2. I don't know. Trying to think of a mutant who has come back recently but was fashionable.
3. Definitely Madelyne Pryor related
4. I got no idea.
5. Wolverine, Jean, Cyclops related? Wolverine because of the best at what he does thing. But I don't think Cyclops and Jean are currently married. Hmmm
6. Ernst was in a story with Sinister and she was the mole.
7. Other Summers children. Believable... Corsair got the fukk around didn't he
8. This is obvious as hell. Apoc's OG horsemen.
9. Phoenix and Jean Grey
10. So the mutant Sinister they brainwashed got whacked and replaced by a different Sinister
hes gonna fukk them hard, but sinister was entertaining this issue. i hope he keeps the fukkery to 11
anyone notice
anyone notice
that douglock already messed up krakoa
Yeah, PoX #4 was fine, felt like it ended right in the middle of what it wanted to show/accomplish. We'll see if once this whole thing is finished, it was worth it/made sense to have this kind of issue at this point of the story.
Those Sinister Secrets
There's more than one pretender
Next week is the first "red" book of the series, can't wait
3 has to do with maddy and inferno 6 is spider man and the xmen related with ernst trying to give no girl a body, 7 means were probably getting more damn summers bros, and 8 seems to say that apocs original horseman are coming back. im curious about the others though
The 3rd Summers Brother thing was lame as fukk.
First that cheesy Adam X was hinted at to be the 3rd bother, then bum ass Vulcan was created.
I bet they finally bite the bullet and just make Gambit Cyclops and Havok's brother like they were thinking of doing in the 1990s.
First that cheesy Adam X was hinted at to be the 3rd bother, then bum ass Vulcan was created.
I bet they finally bite the bullet and just make Gambit Cyclops and Havok's brother like they were thinking of doing in the 1990s.