This issue was an engaging jumping on issue and new mission set-up! But instead of examining team member details, I have to first ask: What did Convergence end up doing to the DCU known canon? I bailed on the Event 2 issues in, planning to catch up when it was all over. Is the a decent annotation of what this latest gimmick, I mean Crisis, has done to mangle known meta backstories? Particular the people in this adventure:
Deadshot (who seemed spot on to classic interpretation)?
Boomerang?
Manta?
Harley Quinn (oh brother, is there going to be the same chronological mess with her own series that ruined her presence in Nu52)?
Reverse Flash? Reverse Flash?! Really?! What's his story in a sentence? Does it parallel the great TV show?
Parasite?
Also, it was a poignant scene when the 3 Squaddies killed those other 3 metas to join The League - but can somebody identify them?
A good issue that will be better with some clarifications.
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06-11-2015, 05:57 PM #1Incredible Member
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New Suicide Squad #9 :Who's Who? **spoilers**
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06-11-2015, 06:12 PM #2pygophile and podophile
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I too wonder how Reverse-Flash, and even Parasite, are serving in Belle Reve. As for those 3 metas, I think they were just unnamed randoms?
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06-11-2015, 06:19 PM #3Always Rakzo
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This was just as bad as some of the recent issues. Some of the dialogue was pretty blunt and the cliffhanger was weak.
Also, I detest this Deadshot, it seems like Ryan is taking Simone's portrayal (which was a more comedic one) to the extreme, he's a total buffoon. I think that the best he has been written on the New 52 is when Adam Glass was handling him, it was more influenced by Ostrander's version which was a much more serious one.
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06-11-2015, 06:20 PM #4Uncanny Member
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Did Conversion really have any effect on Suicide Squad (or really any other series besides the new Earth 2 book)?
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06-11-2015, 06:22 PM #5Always Rakzo
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I didn't know we had a Conversion event.
Originally Posted by MajorHoy
Did Conversion really have any effect on Suicide Squad (or really any other series besides the new Earth 2 book)?
Goddammit, why didn't anybody tell me?!
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06-11-2015, 06:36 PM #6Uncanny Member
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I could have sworn I typed in "Convergence" . . . did some stupid auto-correct maybe kick in at some point? Originally Posted by Rakzo
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06-11-2015, 08:41 PM #7Savior of the Universe
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Yeah, just how are they even detaining/controlling Reverse Flash at all in this?
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06-12-2015, 07:58 AM #8Extraordinary Member
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Deadshot is acting to goofy and now he and boomer are pals?
Making black manta the straightman?
ehh
anyway Harley is proably going through her change from chaos to antivillain here after that last issue.
If harley is not prominent in this arc with deadshot I will be upset.
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06-12-2015, 01:13 PM #9Writer At Comic Watch
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I did not find this writing as bad as before and the art is really, good. I don't think convergence effected SS. But they will be getting a change up next arc, as they get a whole new team. I am looking forward to the new team.
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06-12-2015, 01:34 PM #10Astonishing Member
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I didn't read the early issues, but picked this up in anticipation of the new team of major villains. I'm giving it a story arc or two and hoping the team change is a game changer for the title. You'd have to be pretty confident to think you're going to control Parasite, Cheetah, Reverse Flash, etc. - let alone get them to work together.
In an espionage/counter intelligence sort of way I hope there's more afoot to these villains' agenda(s) post-Forever Evil. There's a lot to play up there story-wise, let alone their own vendettas against heroes or their own unhinged minds.
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Manta still in it? I didn't get to know the New52 versions, so I will be happy to know if he is still around.
Still not liking the bald head though.aka(s). o-bunⓐi-o // ⓓcembⓘrth
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06-12-2015, 06:00 PM #12Extraordinary Member
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the art is better since the movie coming is giving the book some exposure it should only get better form here
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06-12-2015, 06:46 PM #13Incredible Member
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Yeah, stuff like that did have me questioning if Convergence changed history any before making fair comment on such dynamics. Originally Posted by Rac7d*
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06-12-2015, 07:48 PM #14Astonishing Member
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Shocked this was actually a really good issue of Suicide Squad
Not Isis seems to be a great group to throw the team at
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Was it ever answered how Daniel even got his powers back? I'm pretty sure he was still depowered in the main Flash book. Originally Posted by Flash Gordon
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