Spooktoberfest Special: Darkness Falls Across The Land…

…The Midnight Hour is close at hand…

 

 

Creatures crawl in search of blood, to terrorize y’all’s neighborhood…

 

 

And whosoever shall be found without the soul for getting down…

 

 

Must stand and face the hounds of hell, and rot inside a corpse’s shell!

 

 

The foulest stench is in the air, the funk of forty thousand years!

 

 

And grisly ghouls from every tomb are closing in to seal your doom…

 

 

And though you fight to stay alive, your body starts to shiver…

 

 

For no mere mortal can resist… the evil of the THRILLER!

 

 

AAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!

 

And the scariest part? Suicide Squad has STILL never been collected.

27 thoughts on “Spooktoberfest Special: Darkness Falls Across The Land…

  1. Thought process:
    “Strewth?” Who the hell says-

    Oh. Ohhhh.

    I love Captain Boomerang’s aggressive faux-Aussieness. I’m only surprised he doesn’t ride a kangaroo and fight crime with dingo-chucks and a magical didgeridoo.

  2. Hey, yet another comic I have. Cpt. Boomerang rocks.

    (The lack of a Suicide Squad collection is indeed one of the great horrors of our time).

  3. Dead-Deadshot is bustin’ out some MOVES, by the looks of it! Toss up which I would like to see first – a collected Suicide Squad, or the collected Hitman. Both rate above anything else on the “I WANT it!!” meter.

  4. I like how Captain Boomerang is wearing Mirror Master’s pants (suggesting delicious possibilities, even if I actually know why he’s wearing them), and how horribly it goes with his boomerang pattern shirt.

    Not that anything goes with that shirt.

  5. At the very least we need a Showcase or two. Or five.

    I’d settle for Showcase: Who’s Who.

  6. They could do it in three Showcases, including the Deadshot mini-series and the JLI crossover, and they might still have enough room for the recent mini-series.

    Just sayin’.

  7. Great mashup. I miss Boomerbutt–in a lot of ways he was the heart and soul of Suicide Squad. I mean, the pies, man, the pies.

  8. They tried to do a suicide squad showcase last year, but it got canceled last minute because of royalty issues (so I hear). I was very very very bummed out.

  9. DC seems willing to eat the royalty checks for Showcase Presents Booster Gold (and — unless it’s a total psych-out, which wouldn’t surprise me because it’s just too. good. to be. true!! — the upcoming SP Ambush Bug), so I have NO idea why there’s no collected Suicide Squad. (Or, for that matter, no further volumes of Showcase Presents Jonah Hex.) The “DC hates money” theory is gaining a lot of respectability.

  10. Looks like the Squad was ahead of its time (again) by anticipating the current zombie craze.

    Rick Flag in the “Stealth Yellow” t-shirt still gets me. At least they got rid of that in the recent mini. Anybody know what Nemesis is doing these days? Anything?

  11. Speaking of zombies, he smoothly segued, I bought Marvel Zombies 3 solely on the basis of your review, Chris, and I love it! Marvel Apes just got demoted to SECOND-most entertaining miniseries printed right now!

    That’s right baby! I’m hopping on every Marvel bandwagon from Apes to Zombies and I’m lovin’ it!

    Seriously, these are really good comics.

  12. They are supposed to resolicit the Suicide Squad Showcase some time in the future. Or so they say. Although I’m tempted to just complete my run in back issue form.

    At least we’re getting a Drake-era Doom Patrol Showcase next year!

  13. Yeah, the Suicide Squad showcase is supposed to be out next year or something. Supposedly it hasn’t come out yet because the showcase schedule for 2008 was full.
    I hope it has the parts of Legends with the creation of Task Force X. And the secret origins issue.

  14. Yeah, but we’ve already got reprints of Doom Patrol in Archive form. They might be fifty bucks, but at least there’s something.

    That’s why books like Metamorpho and even Batman and the Outsiders and Booster Gold are so important.

  15. True, but it’s good to have them available in a less-expensive format as well, because more people are liable to be exposed to them that way. I myself have put off buying the Archives for too long, and a Showcase can be more of an impulse-purchase.

    (And speaking as someone whose first two Showcase purchases were BatO and BG, I agree that it’s important for them to be made available.)

  16. John Ostrander was in town for the big yearly local convention the first weekend of October and I asked him about the Showcase Suicide Squad holdup. He said tit had to do with a dispute between him and DC over what the best reprint format is: cheap black-and-white Showcases or slightly-more-costly color volumes.

    I didn’t feel right asking him which side of the debate he was supporting…