Snyder III, Karl Kesel/DC Comics Apokolips Now (1989)īy John Ostrander, Kim Yale, John K. There’s something to be said for how willing DC was to insert politics into its superhero titles at the time, even if those politics seem somewhat archaic viewed from today’s perspective.
If you like it: Read Checkmate, the quasi-espionage series that Kupperberg was writing for DC around the same time. All this, plus early art from Savage Dragon creator Larsen! 104 and Psi bite the dust wasn’t enough, this storyline also offers the chance to revisit such 1980s DC staples as Hawk (of “and Dove” fame) as a rightwing ideologue, the Russian super soldier program known as the Rocket Red Brigade, and the obsession from the era with gunrunning as a political hot button issue. Given the opportunity to tell a throwaway story promoting the Squad’s then-new series and a cast of characters that few people really cared about, Ostrander and Kupperberg proceed to tell one of the darker stories of the Squad’s earliest days, killing off members at great speed and telling a particularly cynical, political story along the way.Īs if the opportunity to see villains like Mr.
Image: Erik Larsen, Bob Lewis/DC Comics By John Ostrander, Paul Kupperberg & Erik LarsenĪ crossover special teaming the Suicide Squad and a forgotten 1980s incarnation of the Doom Patrol might not seem like the most obvious place to find an archetypal Squad story, but it’s part of the concept’s DNA to do the unexpected.
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