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Suicide Squad Vol. 7: Drain The Swamp by Rob Williams, Si Spurier, Eduardo Pansica, Fernando Pasarin, Tom Derenick, Neil Edwards, Jack Herbert and Jose Luis (graphic novel review).

The penultimate volume of ‘Suicide Squad Vol. 7: Drain The Swamp’ for this reality is actually a restoration to form reprinting Suicide Squad # 36-40. The first two issue covers a minor talent but useful criminal, Juan Soria, who wants people to remember his name so isn’t seen as cannonfodder and whose digitally enhanced hands can only any lock and forced into the Squad in the usual Amanda Waller way onto the team, although things aren’t quite the way they seem.

Things can only get worse when the Belle Reve Penitentiary when Hack  revives out of its computer database and wants revenge on Waller and the Squad if they get in the way.

This is also the introduction of a new character, The Wall’, a government super-hero with military officer, Captain David Prohaska, under the armour. You would think with the likes of the Justice League around they had enough super-heroes. Alas, the Wall gets hacked by…er…Hack and things then get really rough.

A problem with these graphic novels is so much is spoiler but there is a tremendous flow with these six stories that I unintentionally read the last four in one sitting. You do have to wonder about endowing one individual with such armoured might can’t backfire.

The exploration of what it means to be an expendable team has revealed some vulnerability but the core team seems to come through whatever. More by luck than judgement when the Squad faces someone beyond their power limit. In some respects, it would have made more sense for Waller to play it like ‘Mission: Impossible’ and even rest some of the core team to bring in other convicts more regularly but this is 3 years old now.

GF Willmetts

May 2021

(pub: DC Comics, 2018.  page graphic novel. Price: I pulled my copy for about £10.50 (UK). ISBN: 978-1-4012-8474-9)

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UncleGeoff

Geoff Willmetts has been editor at SFCrowsnest for some 21 plus years now, showing a versatility and knowledge in not only Science Fiction, but also the sciences and arts, all of which has been displayed here through editorials, reviews, articles and stories. With the latter, he has been running a short story series under the title of ‘Psi-Kicks’ If you want to contribute to SFCrowsnest, read the guidelines and show him what you can do. If it isn’t usable, he spends as much time telling you what the problems is as he would with material he accepts. This is largely how he got called an Uncle, as in Dutch Uncle. He’s not actually Dutch but hails from the west country in the UK.

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