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    REVIEW: Suicide Squad #0

    Danielle LuauluBy Danielle LuauluSeptember 16, 2012Updated:September 16, 20125 Comments3 Mins Read

    Tonight on Suicide Squad… It’s the Amanda Show! More after the Jump!

    Suicide Squad #0
    Writer: Adam Glass
    Artist: Fernando Dagnino
    Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher
    Colorist: Matt Yackey
    Editor: Rachel Gluckstern
    Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
    Cover Price: $2.99

    Previously in Suicide Squad: The squad was saved from a group of sacrifice-happy Mayans, fell into the hands of Basilisk, were saved by Captain Boomerang who was acting as a double agent, then back into the hands of Basilisk when Black Spider revealed himself to be a traitor and sent agents to Amanda Waller’s home. Just another day in the life of the Suicide Squad.

    SUICIDE SQUAD’S THE WALL

    Like all of the New 52 #0 issues, this is a look back on the team before they were a team. Rather, it’s a look back at Amanda Waller before she decided to form the Suicide Squad. The book goes through Waller’s final assignment, throughout which several not too thinly veiled references are made about Team-7, its colossal failure and the dangerousness of its members. Waller is shown to be fairly deadly, prone to outbursts and pulling stunts of the Die Hard variety. Her failure to stop a bomb leads to several casualties, one closer to home than the others.

    This particular book doesn’t really have a whole heck of a lot to offer except for a bit of back-story into who Amanda Waller is and why she does what she does. Even that story isn’t particularly engaging because she’s presumably had many casualties while she was on duty. The only hint we get into why this particular casualty is difficult for her are some references made on how he’s like family. In the context of story, that’s really all the reader is given and even then it’s not particularly heart rending like it’s assumed the author wanted it to be.

    Also, why didn’t the aforementioned bomb affect her?!

    LOOK, MA! MY SPINE CAN ROTATE 360°!

    It’s kind of a given that in the world of comics, people are twisted in ways that even contortionists have problems reaching. That point was made painstakingly obvious in this particular issue. There’s one panel of Waller where it appears she has a swiveling spine as she turns around to pull a weapon on an old colleague. It was hard to focus on other aspects of the art when the mind goes back to spine-spinning action Waller.

    Other than that, the status quo of the art has been fairly well kept. Fernando Dagnino has been one of the regular artists on this series and has done a fairly good job of keeping up with its dark and violent nature. Dagnino’s work has been one welcome constant in a series that goes for broke in the shock and awe department.

    BOTTOM LINE: IT’S AN ADVERTISEMENT

    Overall, this felt like a huge advertisement for Team 7. Since the first Team 7 came out the same week as Suicide Squad, it really felt like overkill. This issue had more to do with Amanda Waller and her associations with Team 7. It would have been nice to have a story based around the actual squad members and anecdotes about their origins, instead of this being an entire issue dedicated to Amanda Waller on her lonesome. I was a little disappointed because I’ve really liked the entirety of the Suicide Squad run so far. Unless one is an Amanda Waller or Team 7 enthusiast, this book was a bit of a letdown.

    Rating: ★★½☆☆

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    Danielle Luaulu

    Danielle Luaulu lives in San Francisco where she constantly toes the line between nerd and lady. As a teenager, she fell in love with Sandman’s Morpheus and started wearing lots of black. Now, she's a graduate of SFSU where she studied creative writing and lives vicariously through her level 10 drow bard. She has a love and fascination for all things super and natural, as well as supernatural. Comics are her life, as well as playing games in which she gets to be the hero or villain or a combination of both. Depends on her mood.

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    5 Comments

    1. Ian on September 17, 2012 1:16 am

      I liked her better when she was fat

      Reply
      • Kevin Breen on September 17, 2012 8:24 am

        Wasn’t fat, she was large. Agree that she was totally more formidable then. Kind of like Mrs Frederick on WH13.

        Reply
    2. Shlomo Ben Hungstein on September 18, 2012 10:46 pm

      nice going on this review it wasn’t too long but just long enough about what really counts here. it seems no one out there is to happy about this issue regardless of if their into the SS series or not. i added a link to your review on my Suicide Squad blog site. it’s nice to see someone else from the S.F. Bay Area (i’m in the East Bay) for a change in all these comic book social forums.

      Reply
      • Danielle Breannin Luaulu on October 24, 2012 5:55 am

        Thanks! Good to hear from a fellow Bay Area-ite (?). Have we settled on a name for people from the Bay Area? Hmm…

        Reply
        • Matthew Peterson on October 24, 2012 7:48 pm

          Baysiders?

          Reply

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