Suicide Squad, Volume 5 by John Ostrander

I don’t remember when I bought that issue (my copy doesn’t have a UPC, so I must have gotten it from a comics store later), but I know that by the time the Millennium tie-in happened, I was probably already buying the book.

I remember looking at an early issue in a Towers newsstand, and being drawn to the dark characters. This series has always meant a great deal to me. That’s right, it’s time for John Ostrander’s classic Suicide Squad. I think, after a year of stay-at-home orders, and in the middle of yet another one, it’s time to think about a group of incarcerated people who would choose to take on potentially deadly work to reduce their sentences.

But there is one series that I place on a pedestal and have been wanting to revisit for ages, and was waiting for the right time for. I’ve been rereading whole runs and series from my collection for years now, and have covered most of the titles I was most excited about (with the exception of the middle letters of my Marvel collection, which remain inaccessible for now). Spoilers (from thirty-one to thirty-four years ago) Snyder III (#31), KS Wilson (#32), Kevin Phillips (#32), Geof Isherwood (#33-39), Tim Dzon (Annual #1), Bob Oksner (Annual #1)Ĭolour by Carl Gafford (#1-8, 11-39, The Doom Patrol and Suicid Squad Special #1, Annual #1), Julianna Ferriter (#9-10), Matt Webb (#21)

Snyder III (#27-31, 33-34, 36-37), Erik Larsen (The Doom Patrol and Suicid Squad Special #1), Graham Nolan (Annual #1), Keith Giffen (Annual #1) Scripted by Robert Greenberger (#38), Paul Kupperberg (The Doom Patrol and Suicid Squad Special #1) Plotted by John Ostrander (#38, The Doom Patrol and Suicid Squad Special #1)

Suicide Squad, Volume 5 by John Ostrander