Suicide Squad: The short-lived fighting career of (Not-) Grant Morrison

[alicemacher]

shanejayell sent me a very nice PM requesting the one and only appearance of "the Writer" (a good-natured parody of Grant Morrison's avatar in their final Animal Man issue) in Suicide Squad.


From Sucide Squad (1987 series) #58 (Oct. 1991).

Story by John Ostrander and Kim Yale, art by Geof Isherwood and Robert Campanella.



The context: Black Adam and Amanda Waller share a vested interest, for their own respective reasons, in negating the threat from Circe and her Bana-Mighdall Amazon forces. Accordingly, by threatening the death of her and everyone "within a 100-mile radius" should she refuse, Adam gets her to recruit as many warm bodies as possible to draw the breakaway Amazons' fire away from him as he takes on Circe. Some of these recruits prove less battle-ready than others.













Morrison took the parody in good humour, telling Newsarama in a 2001 interview: "I think it probably served me right after everything I'd put Buddy Baker through. I just come back from the dead, stronger and stranger, like everyone else in comics."

Comments

[tripodeca113]

Hopefully The Writer will be in the next film.
I can't think of a single reason against it.

[deathcrist2000]

I'm still miffed they aren't played by Peter Capaldi!

[donnblake]

It does neatly fulfill Highwater's declaration that the creators aren't real either- Buddy couldn't interact with the real Morrison, of course, only their comic book avatar, who thus became vulnerable to all the constraints and fates of a comic-book character- such as dying to drive up casualty numbers in a Suicide Squad story!

[cygnia]

I remember this issue! My late ex-boyfriend had this comic.

[akodo_rokku]

It took me a bit to figure out that the lingerie angel is Silver Swan. I'd never seen that old look for her before.

[lego_joker]

Yeah - funniest thing is, at this point she wasn't even a villain. Wonder Woman had reformed her in her own book a couple years back (in one of the cheesiest domestic abuse PSAs I've seen in my life, but that's neither here nor there), and I was actually excited to see her starting a crimefighting career.

Then... War of the Gods happened, Perez turned in his notice at DC with a double-bird salute, and they couldn't pour concrete over his WW run fast enough. Damn shame all around.