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4.0
Just solid stuff all around here. Am I crazy or is this legit just the first Suicide Squad book where there's no interference from any outside Comic Book Events? Volume 6 out of 8? Comics, man!
Without said interference, Ostrander can go totally wild on the stuff that this book was ostensibly about: superhero black ops shit. The Squad's new status as free agents certainly doesn't diminish the stories' intrigue, as the first arc of Phoenix Gambit would attest: TFX has to take down Count Vertigo who is being used as a puppet by far right forces in his native Vlatava. But who pulls the strings on the puppeteers hmmm....?
Can't believe they did an origin issue on Boomer and kinda made his racist sexist ass sympathetic? He's an asshole but he's our asshole dammit...
Some more comics trivia: not only is Oracle introduced in this series, the reveal that she's actually Barbara Gordon ALSO happens in this series. I feel like that's a pretty big deal and goes largely unheralded in Batgirl lore?
This is the most time I've ever spent with Poison Ivy outside of a Harley Quinn context, and while she's kind of a one-note seductress/greedy party girl, she is a lot of fun (and honestly has a lot of incredible late 80s fits). Very funny: she doesn't seem to care about the environment one whit!
There was a moment while reading the Israel arc that just made me nod my head at Ostrander's skills in respect: the vibe of this book very much is spy/ops shit, but I realized that what I was reading here was the avatar of a snake god who wants to bring about the kali yuga detained by the Mossad trying to start WWIII by doing a Hannibal Lecter talk with a Jewish AI (??) called DYBBUK
Now that's entertainment folks!
Without said interference, Ostrander can go totally wild on the stuff that this book was ostensibly about: superhero black ops shit. The Squad's new status as free agents certainly doesn't diminish the stories' intrigue, as the first arc of Phoenix Gambit would attest: TFX has to take down Count Vertigo who is being used as a puppet by far right forces in his native Vlatava. But who pulls the strings on the puppeteers hmmm....?
Can't believe they did an origin issue on Boomer and kinda made his racist sexist ass sympathetic? He's an asshole but he's our asshole dammit...
Some more comics trivia: not only is Oracle introduced in this series, the reveal that she's actually Barbara Gordon ALSO happens in this series. I feel like that's a pretty big deal and goes largely unheralded in Batgirl lore?
This is the most time I've ever spent with Poison Ivy outside of a Harley Quinn context, and while she's kind of a one-note seductress/greedy party girl, she is a lot of fun (and honestly has a lot of incredible late 80s fits). Very funny: she doesn't seem to care about the environment one whit!
There was a moment while reading the Israel arc that just made me nod my head at Ostrander's skills in respect: the vibe of this book very much is spy/ops shit, but I realized that what I was reading here was the avatar of a snake god who wants to bring about the kali yuga detained by the Mossad trying to start WWIII by doing a Hannibal Lecter talk with a Jewish AI (??) called DYBBUK
Now that's entertainment folks!
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