Justice League vs Suicide Squad Review

Finished reading Justice League vs Suicide Squad, writer Joshua Williamson brings the first event of DC Rebirth together as two of DC's prominent teams finding themselves meeting for the first time as the Suicide Squad is no longer a secret to the superhero community. The book opens with the arrival of Killer Frost to Bell Reve prison as she is enlisted into the Suicide Squad as its newest member. The book than continues with the main story as the Suicide Squad are on a mission in Badhnisia to stop the villainous Apex who plans to sink to island with the use of an earthquake generator. However the squads mission is not going unnoticed as the Justice League shows up just in time to help civilians and bring an end to the Suicide Squad with Amanda Waller back in Belle Reve ordering the squad to not let the league taking them otherwise she will detonate the bombs in their heads as the squad find themselves victorious when Killer Frost uses her powers to freeze both teams. While this is happening Maxwell Lord has discovered a secret prison in Death Valley where breaks out a group of super villains who are later revealed to be the original Suicide Squad, in order to take the Eclipso Diamond for Belle Reve. Overall this was a great book as writer Joshua Williamson crafts an amazing story that starts with the advertised fight between the two teams only for the story to take a very intriguing turn with the introduction of Maxwell Lord and his own personal team of criminals leads to some great scenes between Maxwell and his team with the Justice League and the Suicide Squad each character's interactions and fights, which also helps to set up for future stories. The back up stories within the book that focuses on Maxwell Lord and Steve Trevor by writer Tim Seeley are great additions to the book as the Maxwell Lord story helps to show what lead to the main story and who he is as a character. While the Steve Trevor story helps to give a view on what is happening in the streets of Washington during the attack of Eclipso and the mind controlled Justice League as Steve is trying to get to his family to make sure they're safe. The additional backup stories cowritten by Rob Williams and Si Spurrier are great as they help to show how the original Suicide Squad operated and what lead them to the positions they're in at the beginning of the book, while also give some great insight into Amanda Waller's character as she dealt with the original team and how she try's to terms with the fall out of the main story. The art throughout the book is great as it barely feel inconsistent with the constant changing of art teams as the structure of the book is able to adapt to the change very easily. 8.5/10.