Under & Over
Suicide Squad (volume 4) #28
Forever Evil
Cover Date: April 2014
Released: 12th February 2014
- Writers: Matt Kindt
- Pencilers: Jason Masters
- Inker: Carlos Rodriguez
- Colourists:
- Brett Smith
- Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher
- Editors: Brian Cunningham / Wil Moss / Harvey Richards
Continued from Suicide Squad #27.
The cover is lie, not everyone dies! Though apparently it seems some of the characters do appear to die!
Basically everyone get’s to fight OMAC, first we get the two sharks already beaten down, though King Shark does have a chomp though it doesn’t seem to have an effect.
The merged Suicide Squads come in by plane, carried aloft by our Pee Gee, and being bad ass anti-heroes they all leap out down to Belle Reve, with parachutes as they’re not suicidal (ironic I know). All except Boomerang who apparently has a fear of heights and isn’t keen on jumping, so Pee Gee who’s uncharacteristically grumpy here (though I guess she’s had a bad day) just tips him out of the craft.
The rest of the issue is, more or less, a massive fight scene with the group trying, and failing, to take down OMAC. And whilst Power Girl gets some solids blows in, as well as going full what value is non-human, fails just as badly as everyone else at taking him down. In a cute little comedy beat Boomerang arrives just as everyone more or less been beaten and immediately flees from OMAC.
Deadshot and Harley, who’s back on team Waller for reasons, are off doing there own thing, getting supplies to help Wallers plans. The two then meet up with Waller and things go badly for them with Deadshot apparently taking down Harley before finishing Waller and then unaliving himself. So apparently all of the “real” Suicide Squad is dead and I can basically go back to other books right?
At this point it’s hard because things are moving along but it’s so slow that you have one or two beats in an issue, and with half the book being a fight scene, never my favourite, all I have is the shock ending that from almost a decade on isn’t that shocking (and probably wasn’t then). It’s not good, but it’s not bad, it’s just meh!