Suicide Squad
Warning ! Spoilers ahead forSuicide Squad : Get Joker ! # 1
In the modish issue of DC ’s newBlack LabelseriesSuicide Squad : Get Joker ! , the Clown Prince of Crime himself has managed to take control condition of Task Force X. Having been recruit by Amanda Waller to wipe out the man who wipe out him , Jason Todd ’s Red Hood is leading a brandnew looping of the Suicide Squadto take outJoker , boast all sorts of baddie , killer , soldier of fortune , and psychopaths likewise . However , they soon bring in that their mission to kill one of DC ’s greatest and most grievous foes is a much bigger surgical procedure than they expected , and it soon spiral out of control condition after only the first payoff .
Coming from writer Brian Azzarello and artist Alex Maleev , Suicide Squad : Get Joker # 1sees Jason Todd imprisoned in Belle Reve Maximum Security Penitentiary after being arrested as the Red Hood . There he ’s recruited by Amanda Waller to lead her team Task Force X , otherwise known as the Suicide Squad . While Jason ’s initially not interested , he ends up unite as soon as he learns their target : The Joker , who killed Jason as Robin before he was rise as the darker Red Hood . Waller then introduce Jason to his team , featuring all sorting of DC rogues such as Firefly , Wild Dog , Silver Banshee , Pebbles , Meow Meow , Plastique , Yonder Man , andHarley Quinn , Joker ’s ex - girlfriendwho wants the clown beat just as much as Jason does .
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After being plant with Waller ’s neck bombs to keep them in line , the new Suicide Squad was sent to Gotham to contact their contact Toyman , who held intel on Joker ’s last known position . However , the integral operation proved to be a set - up by Joker ’s new Russian partners , chair to an all - out brawl after Task Force X had been drawn in by a Joker decoy . Having understandably been tip off off , the real Joker go after Amanda Waller himself , beating her with a wrecking bar ( and possibly kill her ) . However , that was n’t the spoiled part . The worst part was that he acquire his script on Waller ’s trigger for the Squad ’s neck opening bombs , a terrible development Task Force X discovered all too cursorily and tragically .
Now , this new serial publication has become much bigger and more dynamic than a simple manhunt for the Joker . At any moment he could resolve to kill someone on the Squad , if not all of them at once if he felt like it with a dewy-eyed button press . As a answer , Task Force X is going to have to be incredibly deliberate with their next moves in succeeding issue of theBlack Labelminiseries , as one faulty footfall could easily lead in their insistent demise like they saw with Firefly .
Furthermore , it ’s go to be interesting to see how the Squad react to having their lives in the hands of DC ’s darkest psychopath , peculiarly when it comes to Jason Todd and Harley Quinn . Neither of them will be very felicitous with Joker holding their lives in the balance , while also potentially control them to do his bidding in society to stay alive . besides , it ’s going to be interesting to see whatJokerdoes with his newfound mightiness , and whether or not he ’ll apply the Suicide Squad and send them out on missions of his own . Either way , DC fan will no doubt get wind more with next takings ofSuicide police squad : Get Joker !
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