These busy covers aren't working for me. Boy, I remember when Harley Quinn used to have eyeballs. Those were the days.
Where we last left off, the squad had been infiltrated (off screen, of course.) so Deadshot shoots Black Spider so Harley and he can make a run for it.
They're really pushing the romance thing. I read this and I get the impression Black Spider is being condescending to Harley, but Deadshot sees it as him trying to get all ninja on his pasty vaguely clown-like boner-trigger.
Well, that's a sentence I've only ever used twice before. Interesting.
Harley has gotten a bit better at running (well, she couldn't get worse - surely!) and Deadshot justifies his murdering of Black Spider by telling Harley that it wasn't actually Black Spider. He wasn't sure until he shot him though. I wonder how that'd hold up in court?
Judge: Deadshot, you're accused of shooting Bob Smith. How do you plead?
Deadshot: Not guilty, your honour. You see, I couldn't have killed Bob because the real Bob would have dodged the bullet. Yeah. Totally a Basilisk plant.
Judge: .....What?
Back to the Amanda Waller Show - Black Spider has been posing for who knows how long with a knife to Gramma Waller's throat, then has the audacity to ask Waller if they're going to bother with niceties or if he's going to actually do his job. What a good question... but not very well thought out given the scenario.
Gramma flat out tasers the hell out of ninja jerk boy, then tells Amanda Belle to drop that sunnovabitch. Gramma Waller hella ballin' yo. Black Spider stops them from getting to their absolutely LOADED safe room but Waller fakes him out with an unloaded gun.
Harley and Deadshot run up some random stairs, decide they can't take a handful of goons coming at them so they jump down the stairs into another pile of goons and land back where their squad is. Boy, those brainwashed guys are pretty slack. At least Harley's got something resembling gymnastics going on, which is a nice change.
This bit is cool and all but it's like.. good thing this ancient Mayan temple has a fire hose in the one spot that we need it in. The rest of the place is just blank, brick walls but not here, oh no.
The rest of the squad are handled more straight forwardly - Iceberg gets his hand chopped off and Deadshot throws the cold hand at Diablo, which freezes him somehow instead of melting?
Also, nearly every panel featuring Harley Quinn is different in regards to keeping her blue gauntlet on the red side of her hair or changing it to the blue side. I used to think they changed the classic outfit when it came to the New52 because they couldn't be arsed keeping track of which diamonds go where but then why did they make an outfit they can't even make consistent for one issue?
Oh great, Iceberg quickly accepts why he's missing a hand and doesn't appear to be dying of blood loss or anything... then Captain Boomerang shows up with a bunch of miscreant former captives of Basilisk. Yes, he also calls Deadshot a sheila again. You know, it's funny that literally no Aussie says sheila unless it's someone's actual name, they're parodying the eighties or it's in some crap product marketed at American consumers.
Also, Deadshot's like I don't think we can trust your friends guy, which is nice because he doesn't know them from a bar of slightly racist soap. Don't be all 'oh the world's against us!' and then turn down any assistance, it's stupid and rude... particularly when you've just destroyed your own team.
Back in Louuuiesiahhna, Gramma Waller is trying to make up for some past crime with her Amanda Belle, but her gun totin' daughter isn't havin' any of it.
This is the only frame of reference we get, and whenever I see it it reminds me of Drawn Together S2 E6 'Ghostesses in the Slot Machine'. Hey Lucky Tiger, that's pretty random, right?
Well, they both feature young black women being kicked out of home without much lead-up or fanfare about it, and the incidents are sort of treated like a throw away bit.
Sure, the next page elaborates a tiny bit, some crap about how putting a gun to young Amanda's head was the only way to get her out of street violence (kind of like destroying terrorism WITH terrorism, I guess?) so... all that domestic nastiness was for love!
...Could they not just leave Chicago? Like, they're currently living in Louisiana, was that not an option instead of forcing a young kid out into the streets... the avoid the hard streets?
Anyway, Black Spider kicks some part of the room down and it crushes Nana Waller and also revealing that they heard the entire exchange. I thought a safe room was supposed to be sound proof?
Suicide Squad does that thing again where they knock all the panels off centre. Is it a printing error? Is it the new hip trend? Did someone royally screw up the editing? (well, we already know the answer to that one.)
Anyway, I kind of like the fight scene here but it sort of ruins it for me when there is no way Amanda could have got her shoe off when she's shown fighting bare handed and is not shown crouching down during the fight. So I guess this happened in the panel that was blocked out by the last image?
I'm just glad I didn't have to watch the full picture of two grown ass adults fighting in purple suits.
Meanwhile back at the house of convenient fire hoses the squad is in a full fisticuffs with some generic Basilisk thugs. Regulus (remember him?) conveniently teleports in behind Harley Quinn and ... wow, did her cape just grow in length this issue? How have I just noticed that? Perhaps I ignored it because a clown has no business wearing a cape. There, I said it! Also her hair is very long. Soo.. how long have they been in this Mayan town again?
Anyway, he does something to Harley Quinn so she's probably brainwashed to attack Deadshot. Deadshot is so soppy for Harley that he even breaks out of his hate-boner for Captain Boomerang.
Then we get this Three Stooges moment. Yeah, let's just dive into the centre where she's shooting..
Oh, you silly goose! That's where *I'm* standing! Hee-yuck!
Regulus then spoons Deadshot from behind while whispering sweet nothings like how he's going to end the Suicide Squad once and for all.. or he would if he's stop speaking in disjointed sentences.
After Regulus tries to get 'Harley Unplugged' to shoot Deadshot and off herself afterwards, Deadshot decides that that is such a terrible band name that he has to shoot himself through the chest which - by a happy coincidence, takes out Regulus and causes Harley to snap out of her funk.
Also it kinds looks like Deadshot is dancing in her eyeball reflection.
This issue ends with some weird, dramatic voice over from Waller saying there's no glory in what they do, no medals, parades or even praise, just the comfort of death.
I mean, if she'd been talking to her Nana about glory or something I guess it would tie back to that but she doesn't.. so it's kind of.. strange.
This issue wasn't the worst but it was pretty stupid. There's just so many conveniences, like the aforementioned fire hose in the ancient WHS&S friendly Mayan temple, the fact that Iceberg had to take his glove off to ice Deadshot when two pages earlier we can see it doesn't matter what he has on his hands, the way El Diablo is just frozen? Like, he melts bullets from ten paces due to the heat but he can't melt ice? Then there's the way that every other page.. the panels all tilt wildly, like you're supposed to be drunk when you read this.
The over dramatic narration at the end ruined it for me, as well as the forced Harley/Deadshot thing. Like, yuck. Get over it.
Then the whole big baddie thing with Regulus was just like.. well it seemed like they forgot he was in the comic to be honest. When it came to the last pages they were like "oh shit, wasn't this guy supposed to be the guy they were fighting??? You know, the one on the cover? The one they were send here to destory? Um... he can teleport now! Ha, nailed it! Our readers will never suspect we forgot!"
Harley Quinn: Oh great, guess the alarms still work.
Nana Waller: You gave me an unloaded gun?
Waller: Not now, Nana!
Iceberg: What the hell is going on! And where is my hand?!
Deadshot: Long story, Iceberg.
Iceberg: Well, being that I'm missing a freaking hand, I want to hear it!
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| Dead End |
Where we last left off, the squad had been infiltrated (off screen, of course.) so Deadshot shoots Black Spider so Harley and he can make a run for it.
They're really pushing the romance thing. I read this and I get the impression Black Spider is being condescending to Harley, but Deadshot sees it as him trying to get all ninja on his pasty vaguely clown-like boner-trigger.
Well, that's a sentence I've only ever used twice before. Interesting.
Harley has gotten a bit better at running (well, she couldn't get worse - surely!) and Deadshot justifies his murdering of Black Spider by telling Harley that it wasn't actually Black Spider. He wasn't sure until he shot him though. I wonder how that'd hold up in court?
Judge: Deadshot, you're accused of shooting Bob Smith. How do you plead?
Deadshot: Not guilty, your honour. You see, I couldn't have killed Bob because the real Bob would have dodged the bullet. Yeah. Totally a Basilisk plant.
Judge: .....What?
Back to the Amanda Waller Show - Black Spider has been posing for who knows how long with a knife to Gramma Waller's throat, then has the audacity to ask Waller if they're going to bother with niceties or if he's going to actually do his job. What a good question... but not very well thought out given the scenario.
Gramma flat out tasers the hell out of ninja jerk boy, then tells Amanda Belle to drop that sunnovabitch. Gramma Waller hella ballin' yo. Black Spider stops them from getting to their absolutely LOADED safe room but Waller fakes him out with an unloaded gun.
Harley and Deadshot run up some random stairs, decide they can't take a handful of goons coming at them so they jump down the stairs into another pile of goons and land back where their squad is. Boy, those brainwashed guys are pretty slack. At least Harley's got something resembling gymnastics going on, which is a nice change.
This bit is cool and all but it's like.. good thing this ancient Mayan temple has a fire hose in the one spot that we need it in. The rest of the place is just blank, brick walls but not here, oh no.
The rest of the squad are handled more straight forwardly - Iceberg gets his hand chopped off and Deadshot throws the cold hand at Diablo, which freezes him somehow instead of melting?
Also, nearly every panel featuring Harley Quinn is different in regards to keeping her blue gauntlet on the red side of her hair or changing it to the blue side. I used to think they changed the classic outfit when it came to the New52 because they couldn't be arsed keeping track of which diamonds go where but then why did they make an outfit they can't even make consistent for one issue?
Oh great, Iceberg quickly accepts why he's missing a hand and doesn't appear to be dying of blood loss or anything... then Captain Boomerang shows up with a bunch of miscreant former captives of Basilisk. Yes, he also calls Deadshot a sheila again. You know, it's funny that literally no Aussie says sheila unless it's someone's actual name, they're parodying the eighties or it's in some crap product marketed at American consumers.
Also, Deadshot's like I don't think we can trust your friends guy, which is nice because he doesn't know them from a bar of slightly racist soap. Don't be all 'oh the world's against us!' and then turn down any assistance, it's stupid and rude... particularly when you've just destroyed your own team.
Back in Louuuiesiahhna, Gramma Waller is trying to make up for some past crime with her Amanda Belle, but her gun totin' daughter isn't havin' any of it.
This is the only frame of reference we get, and whenever I see it it reminds me of Drawn Together S2 E6 'Ghostesses in the Slot Machine'. Hey Lucky Tiger, that's pretty random, right?
Well, they both feature young black women being kicked out of home without much lead-up or fanfare about it, and the incidents are sort of treated like a throw away bit.
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| You dress like a stripper, get the hell out of my house! |
...Could they not just leave Chicago? Like, they're currently living in Louisiana, was that not an option instead of forcing a young kid out into the streets... the avoid the hard streets?Anyway, Black Spider kicks some part of the room down and it crushes Nana Waller and also revealing that they heard the entire exchange. I thought a safe room was supposed to be sound proof?
Suicide Squad does that thing again where they knock all the panels off centre. Is it a printing error? Is it the new hip trend? Did someone royally screw up the editing? (well, we already know the answer to that one.)
Anyway, I kind of like the fight scene here but it sort of ruins it for me when there is no way Amanda could have got her shoe off when she's shown fighting bare handed and is not shown crouching down during the fight. So I guess this happened in the panel that was blocked out by the last image?
I'm just glad I didn't have to watch the full picture of two grown ass adults fighting in purple suits.
Meanwhile back at the house of convenient fire hoses the squad is in a full fisticuffs with some generic Basilisk thugs. Regulus (remember him?) conveniently teleports in behind Harley Quinn and ... wow, did her cape just grow in length this issue? How have I just noticed that? Perhaps I ignored it because a clown has no business wearing a cape. There, I said it! Also her hair is very long. Soo.. how long have they been in this Mayan town again?
Anyway, he does something to Harley Quinn so she's probably brainwashed to attack Deadshot. Deadshot is so soppy for Harley that he even breaks out of his hate-boner for Captain Boomerang.
Then we get this Three Stooges moment. Yeah, let's just dive into the centre where she's shooting..
Oh, you silly goose! That's where *I'm* standing! Hee-yuck!
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| What, were there no doorways to get stuck in? |
Regulus then spoons Deadshot from behind while whispering sweet nothings like how he's going to end the Suicide Squad once and for all.. or he would if he's stop speaking in disjointed sentences.
After Regulus tries to get 'Harley Unplugged' to shoot Deadshot and off herself afterwards, Deadshot decides that that is such a terrible band name that he has to shoot himself through the chest which - by a happy coincidence, takes out Regulus and causes Harley to snap out of her funk.
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| I don't think I ever needed to be this close to New 52 Harley Quinn... ever. |
Also it kinds looks like Deadshot is dancing in her eyeball reflection.
This issue ends with some weird, dramatic voice over from Waller saying there's no glory in what they do, no medals, parades or even praise, just the comfort of death.
I mean, if she'd been talking to her Nana about glory or something I guess it would tie back to that but she doesn't.. so it's kind of.. strange.
The Short End of the Jester Schtick
This issue wasn't the worst but it was pretty stupid. There's just so many conveniences, like the aforementioned fire hose in the ancient WHS&S friendly Mayan temple, the fact that Iceberg had to take his glove off to ice Deadshot when two pages earlier we can see it doesn't matter what he has on his hands, the way El Diablo is just frozen? Like, he melts bullets from ten paces due to the heat but he can't melt ice? Then there's the way that every other page.. the panels all tilt wildly, like you're supposed to be drunk when you read this.
The over dramatic narration at the end ruined it for me, as well as the forced Harley/Deadshot thing. Like, yuck. Get over it.
Then the whole big baddie thing with Regulus was just like.. well it seemed like they forgot he was in the comic to be honest. When it came to the last pages they were like "oh shit, wasn't this guy supposed to be the guy they were fighting??? You know, the one on the cover? The one they were send here to destory? Um... he can teleport now! Ha, nailed it! Our readers will never suspect we forgot!"
Wotta Comedian!
Harley Quinn: Oh great, guess the alarms still work.
Nana Waller: You gave me an unloaded gun?
Waller: Not now, Nana!
Iceberg: What the hell is going on! And where is my hand?!
Deadshot: Long story, Iceberg.
Iceberg: Well, being that I'm missing a freaking hand, I want to hear it!
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