We are, probably, before one of the most anticipated releases of the year. After seeing Black widow and waiting for other Marvel Studios titles to arrive like Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings or The Eternals, The Suicide Squad by James Gunn it is postulated as a spectacular alternative to the hegemony of the UCM.
The truth is that Warner Bros. seems to take it easy with the dc comics movies, but it is advancing in silent and giant steps, with a schedule of very interesting releases next year. Although … first things first!
The trailer of The Suicide Squad by James Gunn that you have on these lines is a declaration of intentions by its director: madness and violence, a baroque macarrada that goes for all with blood, gunpowder and foul-mouthed people. Come on, what should have been Suicide Squad (2016).
And since a much more faithful adaptation than David Ayer’s film is coming, in this report we are going to review all the comics you can read before you see The Suicide Squad by James Gunn. A personal list that we recommend to go with the original material by hand to the movie theaters. Take note!
Tom Taylor’s Suicide Squad
The most recent stage of the group of dc comics villains and, without a doubt, a great way to enter the world that we are going to find in the film. Especially because of the tone of this series that comes from the hand of a spectacular screenwriter.
Tom Taylor’s Suicide Squad, the man behind such current hits as DCSOS, DCSOS: Immortals Y DCSOS: Dead PlanetHe took these little guys and gave them carte blanche to do whatever they wanted, giving us a fabulous stage.
With little-known characters, except for Harley Quinn, Deadshot, Captain Boomerang and a couple more, Tom Taylor deployed an arsenal of insanities in which absolutely no one was safe, whether they were protagonists, villains or secondary.
Basically what we expect from The Suicide Squad by James Gunn from what we have seen in the official previews.
John Ostrander’s Suicide Squad
Like everything in life, this organization under the protection of the US government had to have a beginning and that beginning was John Ostrander’s Suicide Squad, the original.
In the late 1980s, the Norwalk screenwriter revived the concept of the Special Force-X that had been around since the Silver Age in the publishing house and gave it a turn typical of the time, thus causing the birth of a first group of villains in the service of the United States.
Far removed from the craziest, modernist concept of recent times (and probably from the movie), but just as beautiful and interesting to read. You have to dive into the principles to know the history. And surely James Gunn has winked out there.
The New 52 Suicide Squad
All that madness and bizarreness that now seem indivisible from the DC Comics group actually arose from the The New 52 Suicide Squad, the relaunch of the New DC Universe that took place at the beginning of the last decade and that revolutionized the publishing house.
It is there where we find the appearance of characters like Harley Quinn and King Shark, surely two of the greatest attractions in the James Gunn movie before the premiere.
Violence, blood, tube dementia, rude and foul-mouthed people, a dirty world full of intrigue, Amanda Waller doing her thing. A fabulous option to discover the original material if you prefer something “more modern” than the Ostrander stage. You will have a great time!
The New Suicide Squad
Following in the wake of the Suicide Squad of The New 52, we are obliged to also recommend the New Suicide Squad collected by the witness from the previous stage.
It is the logical continuation of that relaunch of DC Comics. A very continuous stage that practically does not carry out almost any changes, although it is true that it became a bit “darker” and that surely has little to do with The Suicide Squad by James Gunn.
It is not a truly remarkable time in the suicide imaginary of the collection, but if you want to follow the complete history of the Squad of course you have to write it down.
Justice League vs. Suicide Squad
It is common within comic book publishers to confront the different groups that belong to the fictional universe. It has happened in Marvel with the Avengers and the X-Men or even the Inhumans. And, of course, it has happened in DC Comics.
Along these lines, as they did a few years before in The New 52 with the Justice League of America before Eternal evil, the publisher wanted to confront the villains of the Squad with the most representative heroes of the DC Universe.
This is how it came about Justice League vs. Suicide Squad, a fun, fast-paced and action-packed comic that places Amanda Waller’s group against Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash and company.
A good way to access the mythology of the Squad with a lot of super recognizable characters, as well as being part of the enormous potential that these villains have that the US government uses. Will we ever see something like this in the cinema?
Harley Quinn by Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti
And finally, we leave the orbit of the Suicide Squad in the comics and immerse ourselves in the personal universe of one of its protagonists. We are talking about the Harley Quinn by Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti, the best series of this villain in all its history.
As part of those New 52 that we have previously commented to you and taking advantage of the situation of what happened between her and The Joker in Batman: Death of the Family, DC Comics released a regular Harley Quinn series featuring the villain Away From Gotham.
Settling in Coney Island, in his native Brooklyn, he began to live completely insane adventures, with dwarves, a madam, anthropomorphic animals, a stuffed beaver who thinks he talks, a mercenary who looks like Deadpool and even a bloody egg-man.
And why do we recommend this comic before watching The Suicide Squad by James Gunn? Well, because the tone has all the earmarks of going very in line with the comedy that implements the marriage of Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti.
Therefore, we recommend reading it because (in addition to being a very fun stage) it has surely strongly inspired the filmmaker for some of the many crazy things that we are going to see in the film.
This article was published in Hobby Consolas by David Lorao.