Welp, its all fun and games for the Suicide Squad until you raid Arkham Asylum when its under attack by a Joker Gas Massacre. So if you did not quite get it from the cover this first issue actually takes place during the Arkham Attack that takes place during Infinite Frontier #0. But hang on, why are the Suicide Squad in Arkham? Well it is because of the other guy on the cover, William Cobb aka Talon. Waller wants him so the Squad is going to go get him, I am assuming because he is an undead killing machine who can take on the Bat-family if necessary, which I assume that plays a lot into Waller's grand scheme.
But while the Talon break out and the Joker Gas are what is physically going on with the field team and takes up the most pages, I would consider the main point to be what Waller is up to. And if I were to give a description of Waller this issue, its that she is done f***ing around. She wants to basically rebuild and redefine the Squad because she is tired of playing the game that has been set since basically Ostrander's run, she is tired of constant squads that end up dying and failing or rebelling. She wants basically her own Justice League and be more proactive then reactive to events. I also feel like this is a Waller that has gotten more fed up since No Justice, that she is tired of big events that are constantly causing damage to the planet earth and that stories like Doomsday Clock and Death Metal have not helped that assumption that she can't hold her own. It is what causes her to pull a move that, honestly you could see coming at some point especially since you have probably seen the big name attached to this team
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Rick Flag opposes her plans thinking she is going to far, so she subdues him and locks him up. And so she is going to replace him with Superboy, Conner Kent, who she also has locked up in Kryptonite chains.
I like the first issue but I really got to wait and see how the rest of the first couple issues play out and how they get someone like Conner to play ball.