Ranking the Best "Suicide Squad" Stories Since DC's New 52 Began

[CBR News]

Since the "Suicide Squad" movie primarily draws from the Squad's New 52 adventures, CBR counts down their best comic book stories of the modern era.


Full article here.

[AlexanderLuthor]

Were there any good ones? The book was pretty terrible

[Krysmopompas]

Were there any good ones? The book was pretty terrible

Yeah, this is the problem - I have tickets for tomorrow and am *trying* to avoid looking at the poor reviews in detail.
The best Suicide Squad stories were from Ostrander, in the initial run. They could have easily taken that run as the primary inspiration, and slotted Harley in there.

[new_onslaught]

Were there any good ones? The book was pretty terrible

The top 1-5 of this list were not bad.

[new_onslaught]

Yeah, this is the problem - I have tickets for tomorrow and am *trying* to avoid looking at the poor reviews in detail.
The best Suicide Squad stories were from Ostrander, in the initial run. They could have easily taken that run as the primary inspiration, and slotted Harley in there.

I am hearing that there are some elements from "the nightshade odessey" arc in the film, so I guess that's not the problem with the movie.

[FlashingSabre]

The Glass and Ryan runs were garbage. How can you call these good stories?

[Flyattractor]

I am more worried it is just going to be just a live action remake of the Batman: Assault On Arkham Toon. ...And have there been that many Squad Stories since 52?

[Thirteen]

The editor who decided to qualify the article with "...since the New52" era is the WORST.BOSS.EVER.
Also...
"Ostrander turned C and D-list villains like Captain Boomerang and Deadshot into household names" - Loved the book and the characters, but not really.

[Superlol]

their best one were mediocre at best

[kp404]

their best one were mediocre at best

Pretty much. I had high hopes when I started reading n52 SS, but it was pretty bland. I haven't read New Suicide Squad yet, do those stories get any better?

Edit: Just saw that Ryan's run goes into New Suicide Squad, so question answered

[TheFerg714]

Damn, we got some negative nancy's in here. I know neither Suicide Squad or New Suicide Squad were that great, but there were a few winners (I assume).

I'm mostly just pumped to see that Clayton Henry worked on the book (and the Joker!). I'll definitely be rummaging through my LCS's back stock to find #6-7.

[Flash Gordon]

In some pocket dimension, somewhere, Ales Kot had a magnificent run on SS. It is now collected and is a seminal work for DC comics.

[Nite-Wing]

Honestly Ales Kot and Seeley are the only good writers to do anything with the book and they last maybe 3 arc between them.
Adam Glass ushered in this new Harley Quinn and new suicide squad. On the outside looking in he took a low level DC property and turned it into a top priority
The writing has just never been here for the book though but compared to consistently terrible books like teen titans,ravagers and its ilk you are looking at one of the seminal team books in the DCU.

I think Suicide Squad has potential though DC is injecting some classic elements to go with the new stuff

[TOXIC]

Er, great job not ranking Tim Seeley & Juan Ferreyra's amazing run, which was far and above the best of SS since the New 52. Each single issue was better than entire storyline arcs.

BTW, Ryan was a reprehensible writer, and partnered with the immensely and unfathomable trash sketches that is Rob Hunter.

[TOXIC]

Pretty much. I had high hopes when I started reading n52 SS, but it was pretty bland. I haven't read New Suicide Squad yet, do those stories get any better?

Edit: Just saw that Ryan's run goes into New Suicide Squad, so question answered

Snag all of the New SS issues that are by Seeley & Ferreyra, the rest of that entire series is garbage. Terrible writing and bar the first issue, atrocious art that perhaps need to be seen to be believed. Just leaf through them at a store and don't buy the issues after gagging.