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Suicide Squad #11
Publisher: DC
Writer: Tom Taylor
Artist: Bruno Redondo
Colorist: Adriano Lucas
Letters: Wes Abbott
Cover: Bruno Redondo & Adriano Lucas

The final issue of Suicide Squad decides to open things up with a reveal no one saw coming! Looks like a member of the Squad has ties to a DC comics legend which I’m hoping we get more on later. However, for now we get to see the creative team wrap things up in an issue that’s more heart than anything.

As the mission is brought to an end, the team has to face the Justice League which lends itself to some great call backs to earlier in the series. And any moment where Batman can be humbled is a great one. Once tensions settle and the laughs subside, Taylor gives us one more send off for Deadshot by the way of Harley and his daughter, Zoe. It’s a perfect moment between the two and if comics has taught us anything there could be some serious foreshadowing here. Or it could just have been a sweet moment but only time will tell. The finale of this issue works as both a great closer and hopefully a look at things to come as Osita makes a very profound statement at the end.

Redondo and Lucas have been excellent the entire series and continue to deliver some great visual storytelling as usual. They nail it in every panel whether it’s an action scene or when enhancing the humor of Taylor’s dialogue. The sequence with Harley, Black Mask, Green Arrow, and Osita is a great example of this. He and Lucas put that scene with Zoe and Harley over with great expressions and those colors hit the target with the mood before they ramp things up with the action of the final few pages.

Tom Taylor has given us a cast of new characters worth getting to know while staying true to the original members as they eased us into the introduction. Hopefully this isn’t the last time we’ll see these characters and if we do see them again this creative team needs to be the one to bring them back to us.

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