Given the opportunity to tell a throwaway story promoting the Squad’s then-new series and a cast of characters that few people really cared about, Ostrander and Kupperberg proceed to tell one of the darker stories of the Squad’s earliest days, killing off members at great speed and telling a particularly cynical, political story along the way.Īs if the opportunity to see villains like Mr. Image: Erik Larsen, Bob Lewis/DC Comics By John Ostrander, Paul Kupperberg & Erik LarsenĪ crossover special teaming the Suicide Squad and a forgotten 1980s incarnation of the Doom Patrol might not seem like the most obvious place to find an archetypal Squad story, but it’s part of the concept’s DNA to do the unexpected.
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