Suicide Squad (2019-) #2 was the new roster's first mission.

[thanekos]

#1'd been its augmentation via members of the aptly named Revolutionaries.

#2 had one of them, Fin the Atlantean, mourning the death of his brother Scale in his water cell.

He cast his sorrow telepathically. It was caught by another likewise gifted, Scale's killer, the Squad member known as the Shark.





Fin punched through the glass dividing them, then went at the Shark.

He took a tooth before the Squad's new handler Lok triggered their implanted electrical disciplinary aids.

They were still unconscious when Lok gathered the whole roster to spin a spiel for the Revolutionaries.

" Fifty missions.

" After which, your freedom will be granted and you will be given new identities. "



" .. will come from the sea to take out the radar facility on the coast. "

(You might remember Bahdnisia from its role in the origin and life of Johnny Thunder.)

As the Shark and Fin were coming up on the radar facility, Lok had some more words for them: " Let me make it clear, if there is any more squabbling between you two, I will randomly blow one of you to pieces.

" You fight, and you'll be playing Russian Roulette with two chambers and one bullet. "



The Shark and Fin took the facility, letting the other Squaddies on the mission come in undetected as two teams.

Team B - Deadshot and the Revolutionaries Osita, Aerie, and Wink - were caught in a hail of gunfire from the ground that took out their pilot.

As Team A's craft banked off, Deadshot went to try and land the plane.



(Wink's the one waving and teleporting.)



" Hang on. Where's Wink? "

Wink was off extracting the president whose victory America'd bought. She blinked back in with him.

Team B took him out of sight, moving towards the nearby stormwater tunnel.

They were confronted by a guard, whom they dispatched.

Osita picked up the man's gun.. and fired it off: " It's an ambush!

" It's-



Osita pulled the trigger.



(Pagecount 6 and a little over 9/10ths of 22.

Writing's Tom Taylor, art's Bruno Redondo, colors're Adriano Lucas, and letters're Wes Abbott.)

Comments

[icon_uk]

Well, that went about as well as might be expected, all things considered.

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

Yeah, this is why I have a hard time suspending disbelief with the Squad these days.

The original Squad always had some heroes/anti-heroes who could keep the mission on track.

But a team full of unwilling villains, or conscripted metas? That's gonna create a mess just as bad as the original mess.

[icon_uk]

Yup, someone along the lines of Bronze Tiger, Rick Flag, Nemesis or Nightshade to keep things on track when they're on a mission is too sensible a thing to overlook. relying on remote monitoring is a ridiculous idea.

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

Remote monitoring with audio only. You'd think that super evil guys running this would spring for video, at least.

[thanekos]

Lok spent all his pragmatism points on having Zebra-Man forcefield him whenever he mouths off to super-criminals.

[iamrman]

Yeah, I can't bring myself to care about these new characters.

[icon_uk]

I suspect that won't be an issue for long....

[iamrman]

Captain Boomerang is on the cover of another issue. I don't dare read it in case he gets killed off for cheap shock value.

[scorntx]

Usually, a character doesn't get killed for cheap shock value more than once.

... usually.

[freezer]

That may be the most "Only In Comics" sentence I have ever read.

[scorntx]

If at some point Smug Evil Government Man doesn't wind up face to face with Waller sitting in a chair looking very pleased with herself, having expected this all to go belly up from Day One, I'd be surprised.

[nyadnar17]

I have to assume the other pages have the sympathetic characters in them. Its really hard to care about assholes being assholes to each other.

[sisterofbloomerjunior]

Should've gone with the princess movie first.