DC Comics have unveiled the next Suicide Squad comic, “Suicide Squad: Dream Team,” revealing it will be an ongoing series written by Nicole Maines, with art by Eddy Barrows and inker Eber Ferreira. Picking up from Maines, Steve Orlando, and Fico Ossio’s prologue in this week’s “Action Comics” #1060, it will follow Dreamer/Nia Nal after Amanda Waller blackmails her into joining a new Task Force X, believing her to be the key to finally ending the threat of metahumans to the world.
“I’m really excited to be working with Eddy and Eber to bring Dreamer into this pivotal time in the DC Universe,” Maines says in the press release. “This is a very different space from what she’s used to, and where we’re used to seeing her; dealing with Amanda Waller and this new Suicide Squad is going to force her to decide what kind of hero she wants to be, and what she is willing to sacrifice to save the future.” As well as Dreamer, the book’s line-up will consist of Harley Quinn, Bizarro, Clock King, Black Alice, and psychic assassin Deadeye (Archie Waller).
The book marks Maines’s first series as writer, and continues her relationship with the character she originated on the CW’s Supergirl show, whom she has also penned in various specials and single issues, as well as the upcoming graphic novel “Bad Dream” (featuring art by Rye Hickman, and due out April 2.) She will become the first trans woman to pen the main Suicide Squad comic, although she will not be the first trans person to write one, since the transmasc Vita Ayala contributed a two-part back-up in the 2016 spin-off “Suicide Squad Most Wanted: El Diablo and Amanda Waller.”
The first issue will be released on March 12, 2024, with a main cover by Barrows and Ferreira, and variants by Riccardo Federici, Sweeney Boo, and Gleb Melnikov. It will mark the first ongoing Suicide Squad comic since 2022, and begin shortly after the video game Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League finally releases on February 2. You can check out the covers and character designs in the meantime on the official DC blog.
