A more righteously-minded Suicide Squad calling themselves the Revolutionaries quickly become conscripted into the Suicide Squad. Together, this bunch of unimaginative nobodies will do things for the duration of a book before shuffling off into oblivion. Get ready for some shuteye, this is Suicide Squad: Bad Blood!
Tom Taylor writes more bad comics than good and his Suicide Squad definitely falls into the bad category. Given how malleable the Squad lineup is, besides always featuring Deadshot and Harley Quinn, I don’t know why he needed to create the Revolutionaries as a separate group to be integrated into the Suicide Squad in the first place - why not just have them be another group of prisoners and have them be there to begin with?
That’s the least of it though. The new characters are a dull bunch. One of them has wings and is called Aerie, another looks like the Creature from the Black Lagoon, and that’s about all I can remember - hardly impressive. Didn’t care about their backstories or nuffink! And the story? Just your usual Suicide Squad floundering. Go here and shoot this “important” person, then shoot goons, then fight Batman, then, er, um, er, something contrived for the predictable big finale! Snore…
A couple of, let’s say “famous” for the sake of argument, Squad members “die” but given how another main character “dies” in the middle of the book and is resurrected for no reason right at the end, I’d say this book continues to affirm that “death” remains a joke in superhero comics. Not that anyone cares about either of these characters enough to feel anything over their “passing”!
Waller is pointlessly replaced by another dreary suit (meet the new boss… etc.), Deadshot’s whining about his daughter again, and said daughter gets a cutesy animal sidekick a la Taylor’s All-New Wolverine run over at Marvel (‘member Jonathan?). Really boring, unoriginal and forgettable stuff.
I loved the art team on this book. Bruno Redondo and Daniel Sampere produce nothing but quality pages (and there’s a lot of - too many - pages in this one) so Taylor’s uninteresting story looks amazing as a result. I’d love to see these guys on other comics. I also loved Jeremy Roberts’ variant covers - the Deadshot one in particular is exceptional.
Snoozy Squad: Bad Book is pretty to look at but more than pretty dull to read!
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