Suicide Squad #2 - DC

This is issue #2 of the new Suicide Squad. John Ostrander writes it. Again! I believe I'm correct in saying that he wrote the first series. Javi Pina does the pencils. I really liked his work in ManHunter. But I actually think he's gotten better here. There are some really nice looking panels in this book. Basically, last issue, Rick Flag was sent to Jotunheim to destroy it. Rustam was there. He's a member of the Scimitar. He was trying to stop Flag, but since he couldn't do that he thought that he would escape and leave Flag there to die. Apparently he can cut a hole through time and space with his Scimitar. But then we he tried to jump out, Flag went with him. Now they're stuck in . . . Skartaris. You know, the land where the Warlord lives. We know that, but they don't know where they're at. Since they both realize they'll need each other to survive, they've called a temporary truce. That doesn't stop them from arguing. But, at least they're not trying to kill each other. They forage through the jungle, fighting off the occasional dinosaur here and there. However, on the final page they find some kind of temple, or palace. But it looks like, deep in the buildings shadows, there's someone or something looking back at them. Wade keeps having flashbacks to his various experiences with the Squad. Mostly he thing of Gen. Eiling, and how often he got screwed over by him. Nobody else knows where they're at, and Amanda Waller doesn't know if he's alive or dead. This is a great beginning to the series. Unfortunately, this one's only going to be 8 issues long. But I'm sure those will be 8 action packed issue. Oh, and by the way, that gorgeous cover is by John K Snyder.