New Suicide Squad Vol. 1: Pure Insanity by Sean Ryan

New Suicide Squad Vol. 1: Pure Insanity by Sean Ryan

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Goodreads Synopsis:

Setting the world’s most dangerous super-criminals against the most insidious threats to national security: that’s the idea behind the elite black-ops unit officially designated as Task Force X. It’s perfect…on paper.

But the real world rarely goes according to plan. Threats evolve. Teammates turn on each other. Blood and betrayals flow like rivers. And that’s why Task Force X is better known as the Suicide Squad.

Vic Sage aims to change the equation. Replacing Amanda Waller as the puppet-master of Suicide Squad’s motley crew, he’s introducing wild cards like Deathstroke and the Joker’s Daughter to whip the existing team-Deadshot, Harley Quinn, and Black Manta-into shape. But the world’s deadliest assassin and the Clown Princess of Crime have ideas of their own…and no explosive implants to keep them in line.

Can this new Suicide Squad survive-or will it implode before it even begins?

My Review:

I received a free copy of this book through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This was an interesting concept, one that intrigues me a little more than your standard run-of-the-mill superhero stories. We are introduced to a cast of “anti-heroes”, which is “ a central character in a story, movie, or drama who lacks conventional heroic attributes.”

We have a government agency running the program where they take the best of the worst villains and offer them something in return to carry out dirty missions that the United States does not want known they are associated with. Of course, the government agents are in a power struggle, which affects the mission, as are the cast of recruits completing attempting to complete the missions. In this volume, we have two missions, and two different crews, with few individuals supporting both.

Mission 1


Mission 2


Of course, nothing ever goes according to plan and a back-up plan must be improvised, which is just as disastrous, but entertaining. We have rogue villains, power hungry agents, jealous ex-girlfriends, big egos, mental disorders, injuries, traders, etc. I like the element of realism in many parts of the story, my favorite being when Not-Flash blows out his knee trying to run at warp speed to set bombs.



All in all, this was a decent story, which only has room for improvement, and on the heels of the announcement that there will be a movie coming out soon, Suicide Squad, this is sure to be a hit.

Read on June 17, 2015

Top Genres*: Sequential Arts/Graphic Novels, Sequential Arts/Comics
*According to Goodreads
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My ratings system
5 stars - I absolutely loved it
4 stars - Good book and would recommend
3 stars - Decent book, but wasn't spectacular
2 stars - Not good, but was able to finish it
1 stars - Did not finish (DNF) and I don't usually rate a book I haven't finished (just to be fair to the author)

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