RE: [BNW] Suicide Squad (was Bomber, cool or stupid?)

["g. m." <gm1970@hotmail.com>]

::SNIP::
>Actually, the whole Suicide Squad thing strikes me as a very BNW-esque
>concept.  For those not familiar with it, it involved the U.s. government
>taking psychologically damaged heroes, and non-psychopathic villains, and
>using them on "suicide missions" for the government.
::SNIP::

It was a very cool series for a long time. It really added some depth to a 
lot of the "second string" villians in the DCU, and was a convient way for 
DC to "clean out the gene pool" of lame bad guys without having a 
Scourge-type to do it. I'll never forget Captain Cold facing off against the 
Jihad saying "Hate is cold. Hell is cold. And I am CAPTAIN COLD" and wasting 
the guy. Then there is the Batman issue. "Or haven't you noticed that you 
pull your shots around me, Deadshot." "Ms. Waller, do you know how many 
sealed drums I've escaped from?" Great book up until they went to 
Apocalypse(sp), then I lost interest. Didn't Dixon write it in the begining, 
tho?

OBBNW: The concept is rife with ideas for BNW. Captured Defiance members 
sent after an escaped rouge alpha, or against the Russians (I love having 
the Red Menace to kick around again, having grown up in Regan's America and 
being worried about the bomb.) Being sent to capture old Defiance friends.

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