It’s Real in the Field
Cover Art:
Mike Huddleston
Cover Colors: Rico Renzi
Cover Price:
$4.99
On Sale Date: December 21, 2016
**NON SPOILERS AND SCORE AT THE
BOTTOM**
Hey, here’s something I haven’t reviewed before! Or
even read! But I figured since I am the Suicide Squad guy, I should pick this
up and see if it’s pertinent. It’s essentially two comic books bound together,
so I’ve reviewed them separately but combined scores at the bottom for handy
reference. So let’s stop pussyfootin’ around, and get to the review!
Explain It!
El Diablo
Writer:
Jai Nitz
Art: Cliff
Richards
Colors:
Hi-Fi
Letters:
Josh Reed
Seems like El Diablo, a lady superhero in Sugar Skull
face paint named Azucar, and an awesome Mexican God of Death and Dogs named
Xolotl—who is actually a White Martian!—have put aside their differences to
stand against a shared enemy: the Suicide Squad! But none of them are readily
familiar to most, though it might be notable that one of them is a Thanagarian.
What follows is a Battle Royale that, I must say, is pretty great. They’re all
using powers and sharing abilities and Xolotl is morphing like a bad-ass, when
the Justice League of Mexico, known as ¡Justicia!
shows up to take Xolotl into custody, and their arrival fairly well puts a
détente on the fighting. Xolotl dies anyway due to injuries sustained during
the mix-up, and when the dust settles El Diablo storms off to tackle the Big
Bad guy of this miniseries, Dalesko—all by his lonesome! But once he’s
separated from the other heroes/villains, Deadshot shows up and pops two
bullets into El Diablo’s heart!
If you like looking at power characters fighting,
then you should check this out. The action was great and everyone uses their
abilities in interesting (and sometimes self-defeating) ways that made me
really interested to know more about them. Indeed, all of these Mexican heroes
and the Mexican Justice League I found very intriguing. I’m sort of doing this
series a disservice by showing up late to the party, but in and of itself I
thought this was a quality comic book with a pretty good story and engaging
dialogue. So what I’m saying is yes, I’m ready for the ¡Justicia! ongoing series now.
8/10
Amanda Waller
Words By:
Vita Ayala
Art By:
Mart Mernoff
Colors By:
Beth Sotelo
Letters By:
A Larger World
Seems the Suicide Squad—the current line-up—have been
sent to a mountain range in Eastern Europe to extract one Phillip Weiss. His
mentor, Walter, has been slipped some kind of hypnotizing drug that has
rendered him catatonic, but of course Amanda Waller can break through it with
some smooth talking and several shots of pure adrenaline. She doesn’t get a
whole lot of information out of him, though, before he bites her thumb and has
to be hauled away. Meanwhile, the Suicide Squad has extracted Phillip, but they
all show up DECEASED on Waller’s tracking monitor. And what’s wrong with
Waller? Why, now she’s contracted the same results from the coma-inducing
medicine Walter took!
One of the problems in this story is that Walter and
Phillip look too identical. Beyond that, it’s just sort of clunky. There are
some good jokes, like Waller’s recounting of the extraction from planning to
actual stage, which highlighted the Suicide Squad’s buffoonery. The art is
meticulous and worth seeing, and depending on how this wraps up it could be a
perfectly nice Suicide Squad story. By
itself, this issue was a little dull.
6.5/10
Bits and Pieces:
Two full comics for four bucks, one better than the other but neither truly bad. Not a bad deal. We see some great new characters in El Diablo's story, and Amanda Waller's story...well that's nice, too. I'd say you could do a lot worse than to get this comic.
7.5/10
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