Ask Chris #15: Comics, Politics and the Suicide Squad

 

 

Today at ComicsAlliance, my weekly Q&A column is back for another round, and this time I only talk about Batman twice! Instead, I discuss the impact comics have had on my political views and tackle five great moments from the comic I actually did forget to put on my list of favorites: Suicide Squad.

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5 thoughts on “Ask Chris #15: Comics, Politics and the Suicide Squad

  1. Things I didn’t think I’d ever learn from comics: Darkseid blows his nose.

    I guess even gods of evil made out of rock get stuffed noses.

  2. I at least need that Apokalips arc of Suicide Squad. Because there is not nearly enough Kanto in my life.

  3. Does someone really die in every arc of Suicide Squad?

    I mean, I know that the total body count of the book is higher than the total number of arcs (and maybe higher than the total number of *issues.* And back in the day before “writing for the trade,” books weren’t always so neatly divided into arcs.

    But lots of stories had no deaths (the JLI fight in Moscow, the William Hell story, the Furies’ rescue of Glorious Godfrey, the Batman issue you highlight). Certainly a good number of missions resulted in no *team* casualties– Phoenix Gambit, Jihad in New York, the mission to Moscow.

    I don’t remember noticing a pattern of someone-must-die-every-time– just the ongoing sense that you never knew.

  4. I don’t think it was actually one or more deaths per arc. More just that deaths not only could happen, they did, and rather frequently. At least compared to anything else from the time.