5/13/2023 0 Comments Suicide squad get the jokerThink of all the themes that dredges up for Jason, a man basically operating by trauma at all times. That’s a killer hook, right? (I’m guessing this Black Label story takes place in a continuity where the events of Under the Red Hood never happened.) Jason Todd – the second Robin, murdered by Joker, brought back to life, and now operating as Red Hood – is doing a stir in prison and is approached by Waller to kill Joker. Get Joker! has the potential for a great hook and themes. A writer has to both ladle enough bits of personality on the secondary/cannon fodder characters of a Task Force X lineup to keep things interesting, while digging into the main characters who will drive the plot and themes. Among them, solid characterization of each team member. When you consider that we’ve had a pile of comics, two feature films and a few cartoons about Amanda Waller’s covert government project, anyone who picks this up would have some basic idea of how a Suicide Squad story needs to go. Namely, I don’t think Azzarello shows a strong handle on these characters. And Suicide Squad: Get Joker! won’t change my mind on him. He seems content to stay in his comfort zone of hard-boiled, super-masculine storytelling of doom and gloom.īut we’re so far away from 100 Bullets, and folks seem content to only remember Cliff Chiang’s awesome art during Azzarello’s controversial New 52 run on Wonder Woman.
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