Perhaps from the popularity of their appearance on Arrow, the Suicide Squad is getting another ongoing series, just a few months after their last one was cancelled.
Much like yesterday’s “Teen Titans” announcement, “New Suicide Squad” from the creative team of writer Sean Ryan and artist Jeremy Roberts is set to bring a re-vamped team to your local comic book store in July.
Ryan, a long-time Marvel and DC editor has previously written the “Flashpoint: Grodd of War” tie-in and had stories in “A+X” and a few DC 80 Page Giants. Roberts, as you may recall, won the “draw Harley Quinn in compromising positions” contest DC held last year, and is the artist on the final issue of “Stormwatch,” due later this month.
The team, much like “Teen Titans,” is slightly-rejiggered, but this time they are bringing in the big guns. Black Manta has been one of the standouts from “Forever Evil,” Deathstroke is currently all over your TV set on Arrow, and for some reason those Joker’s Daughter comics sell a lot of comics. I love the idea of the Suicide Squad, and am willing to give the book a shot, but the tag line, provided from this piece by IGN, leaves me already shrugging my shoulders at this months-away book:
With team leader Amanda Waller no longer having the autonomy she used to and new members causing all sorts of problems, the team will have an awfully hard time on their first mission: a trip to Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
The piece also features a brief interview with Roberts.
We will certainly have more on all of DC’s new titles later this month in our “Soliciting Multiversity: DC” column.
