Flushed
Suicide Squad (volume 4) #29
Forever Evil
Cover Date: May 2014
Released: 19th March 2014
- Writers: Matt Kindt
- Pencilers: Jim Fern
- Inker: Wayne Faucher
- Colourists: Brett Smith
- Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher
- Editors: Brian Cunningham / Wil Moss / Harvey Richards
Continued from Suicide Squad #28.
This issue is a series look at the choice of doing what’s right compared to doing what’s necessary. So obviously the issue’s title is a pun and the super weapon is called a toilet, rather than y’know something cool!
The story is pretty straight forward OMAC is fighting the heroes, and villains, whilst someone called Kevin is trying to wrest control of OMAC from the Thinker. Oh yeah Deadshot and Harley aren’t dead they were instead shot with magic bullets that enhance there abilities, and for some reason decided to lie down and rest for dramatic reasons!
Pee Gee also has the best moments in the issue, firstly declaring that they’re going back to help the Squad, because they’re heroes and thats what they do! Secondly she manages to block an energy attack that was jus about to kill Captain Boomerang. Poor Boomerang is treated pretty rough this issue, the whole issue his weapons are shown to be pointless, until at the last minute he manages to use it to knock OMAC into the portal to the void (I refuse to refer to it as the toilet, because it’s silly). Unfortatetly, because comics, Kevin gains complete control of OMAC just before Boomerang has what should be his heroic moment!
And that it, everyone gets to have a bad ass moment, King Shark goes into the void and Waller gets to actually be human as she tries to save Kevin before having to cast him, and OMAC into the void. But at least it does actually finishes the story, with an actual ending that has some pathos as well as tying almost everything off.
If there’s one criticism of the story The Thinker, who disappeared for vast chunks of the story, turns up in the OMAC thought space with Kevin, but he really doesn’t do much and is casually dismissed with the classic “his body wasn’t found” ending.
If I’m honest this run has been, okay, I’m still not a fan of the Suicide Squad and Pee Gee doesn’t really do much beside being the muscle, she could have been removed from the entire thing and it wouldn’t make any difference.