Suicide Squad: The Black Vault Review

Finished reading Suicide Squad: The Black Vault, restarting the series as part of DC Rebirth and to coincide with the release of the film writer Rob Williams brings the film's team roster to the forefront of the series. The book opens with Amanda Waller meeting with the President at the White House where he tries to call an end to the Suicide Squad after is many covert missions due to being unknown of their actions. This leads to Waller to bring up the counteroffer of bringing in Colonel Rick Flag onto the team to lead them and make sure there are less casualties. The main story of the book begins with Amanda Waller arriving at Belle Reve to prep the Squad that will lead to them dropping from space into an underwater prison in Siberia to retrieve an item of cosmic proportions. The rest of the book features a few small character stories centring around Deadshot, Captain Boomerang, Katana and Harley Quinn. Overall this was a decent book as it takes a very much style over substance thanks to amazing artwork by Jim Lee for the main story with how the action and fight choreography is drawn is breathtakingly while the story itself is a little simplistic. The side stories that put the spotlight onto individual members of the Squad are great as its a nice way to give the character a nice amount of development an insight into their history, the only problem this has is that the stories feel separated for the main story. The art from rest of the art team in the character centric is great as each art style works extremely well for the character that is in the spotlight. 6/10.