New Suicide Squad: Pure Insanity Review

Finished reading New Suicide Squad: Pure Insanity, this begins the DC comics series by writer Sean Ryan as the team changes its members as the American government places Vic Sage in charge of Task Force X. The book opens up with the Squad in Russia on a mission while at the command centre in Belle Reve prison Amanda Waller meets with her new coworker Vic Sage who put the new team into Russia without consulting her, leading to the mission to go sour when Deathstroke gets payed of by the Russians and Deathshot gets captured. The second story in the book opens up with Deadshot recovering from his injuries as the rest of the team, now joined by Reverse Flash and Captain Boomerang, are on a mission in China to blow up a facility of experiments. After the facility gets destroyed the team head to a nearby abandoned city that is the spitting image of Metropolis. Unknown to the team one superhuman survived the explosion and follows them, this gains the attention of the Chinese military who also enter the city. Overall this was a great book as writer Sean Ryan puts the whole team into some action filled situations while sill being able to give characters like Deadshot, Black Manta and Amanda Waller some great development. The structure of the story is great as the book jumps between two different scenes siemesly as the book shows the conversation between Amanda Waller and Vic Sage while simultaneously showing the teams mission in Russia at the same time. It's also used during the mission in China with the interactions between Reverse Flash and the team that helps to build up tension within the story as Reverse Flash keeps pushing himself to go faster. The mostly silent parts of the book are used to great effect as it allows the art team to convey the emotion of certain characters, with it being primarily used within the China story which helps show what Deadshot is going through during his recovery back at Belle Reve and also showing the superhuman reaction to his surroundings and the death of the other experiments. 8.5/10.