If there's any good to come out of DC's Suicide Squad movie, hopefully it'll draw more eyeballs to the work of John Ostrander. No writer has more profoundly shaped this franchise over the years. And with the anti-heroes and outright villains of Task Force X enjoying a bigger spotlight than ever, it's only proper that DC commission a new Suicide Squad comic from Ostrander. Suicide Squad: War Crimes Special #1 hardly reinvents the wheel, but ti does show Ostrander working his familiar magic with this team.
While the roster in this issue is fairly contemporary - Deadshot, Harley Quinn, Captain Boomerang, El Diablo and the obligatory throwaway villain - the tone is vintage Suicide Squad. Ostrander gives this issue a heavy political slant as the team is charged with rescuing a former US Secretary of Defense before he's put on trial for war crimes. There should always be a political slant to this franchise. The Squad aren't simply the anti-Justice League, they're the group of sorry saps forced to deal with politically thorny problems the US can't officially involve itself in. This issue speaks to that premise.
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