Red Hood somehow gets drafted into the latest roster of the Suicide Squad. Their target? Get Joker! Get Joker what - a decent storyline to appear in? It’s been a while - and this book ain’t changing that! Then Joker takes Waller’s boom box that blows up the Squad. What’s gonna happen next? I’m sure most people can wait to never find out, and they would be the smart ones.
Which isn’t to say I disliked the book entirely. Brian Azzarello’s Harley is probably the most tolerable version of the character I’ve read in a minute because she’s not being an annoying Deadpool wannabe all the time. I liked that the new character, Wild Dog, is a Jan 6th insurrectionist, if only for showing how absurd those people are. Alex Maleev’s art is fine - if you’ve seen his art before, it’s exactly that again, no more, no less.
But what starts out promisingly doesn’t really go anywhere. Joker doesn’t do anything with the boom box. There are way too many scenes of characters sitting around doing nothing, or, when they’re not doing that, they’re brainlessly shooting each other. It wasn’t convincing how Jason Todd got captured in the first place or that Batman wouldn’t have gotten him out before Waller got her mitts on him. And why does she suddenly want to take out Joker now of all times? Hella contrived shenanigans.
The story’s not that interesting and the characters, both new and old, aren’t very interesting either. It’s also got one of those annoying Sopranos-style non-endings that’ll probably leave most readers unsatisfied. Azzarello’s written a great Joker book called, imaginatively, Joker, and I’d rec that instead of the weak and forgettable Suicide Squad: Get Better Already!
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