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Suicide Squad, Volume 2: The Nightshade Odyssey by Luke McDonnell, Keith Giffen, John Ostrander
luana420's review
4.0
The titular Nightshade Odyssey is about 60-ish pages out of 240!
I was a bit apprehensive that this collection started out with a crossover with the MILLENNIUM event which I'd actually read about in a Batman comic previously but fuck me if I remembered anything about it. Fucking LOL Karin from the Silver Age Squad DIES IN IT and I am just completely left wondering "ok lol why"
BUT the collection picks up a lot with missions into Colombia and the Soviet Union, there's even a crossover with the Doom Patrol (a team I know fuck-all about) that was pretty entertaining, which shows a deft storytelling hand: I picked up on their deal pretty quick.
The Nightshade arc is kiiiinda what the 2016 movie is based on, but with Nightshade herself hilariously written out. Maybe they didn't want a "practicing Catholic" as a heroine in a cinematic universe building movie? Lol seriously Ostrander, way to be a fucking American here by just randomly plugging a religion into a character background because of your naive idea that "general spirituality" is an inherently noble trait. What does this add to Nightshade? We never learn! I mean lol "practicing Catholic" in 1988 proooobably means she was anti-choice and thought the gays were a lifestyle she didn't agree with. Oh, Americans!
Anyway, the book remains a very fun balancing act between colorful superhero nonsense (lmao the Shade the Changing Man reintroduction to a post-Crisis universe is the final issue of this collection) and 80s spycraft ops shit.
Dope!
I was a bit apprehensive that this collection started out with a crossover with the MILLENNIUM event which I'd actually read about in a Batman comic previously but fuck me if I remembered anything about it. Fucking LOL Karin from the Silver Age Squad DIES IN IT and I am just completely left wondering "ok lol why"
BUT the collection picks up a lot with missions into Colombia and the Soviet Union, there's even a crossover with the Doom Patrol (a team I know fuck-all about) that was pretty entertaining, which shows a deft storytelling hand: I picked up on their deal pretty quick.
The Nightshade arc is kiiiinda what the 2016 movie is based on, but with Nightshade herself hilariously written out. Maybe they didn't want a "practicing Catholic" as a heroine in a cinematic universe building movie? Lol seriously Ostrander, way to be a fucking American here by just randomly plugging a religion into a character background because of your naive idea that "general spirituality" is an inherently noble trait. What does this add to Nightshade? We never learn! I mean lol "practicing Catholic" in 1988 proooobably means she was anti-choice and thought the gays were a lifestyle she didn't agree with. Oh, Americans!
Anyway, the book remains a very fun balancing act between colorful superhero nonsense (lmao the Shade the Changing Man reintroduction to a post-Crisis universe is the final issue of this collection) and 80s spycraft ops shit.
Dope!
ipacho's review
4.0
This was a very unusual colection of stories, even by the Squad's precedent. I liked all the experimentation that Ostrander did, showing the full capabilities of what could be done with such a group of misfits. Loved it!
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