Suicide Squad #5 - DC

This time around, the Suicide Squad, looks like it may be in trouble. Amanda Waller is the leader de facto, but, there's a lot of rumblings and grumblings going on in the background. Now, I have a hard time believing that she doesn't know what's going on. So, there has to be a reason why she's letting things play out the way they are. But, as with the Wall, you never really know what she's up to, until it hits you in the face. But let me back up . . . . last issue, she told Rick that his whole Rick Flag persona was scripted by General Eiling. That's not his true identity. Never was. He was a soldier named Anthony Miller, whom Eiling decided to experiment on to see if he could create the perfect soldier through psychological means. Which he did. So now Rick's hopping mad and he goes to confront the General. The problem is, when he programmed him, he also put in a key word that puts him completely under his control. So, he's done that, and now he's holding Rick in reserves until he decides that he needs him. Also going on is a corporation, hooked up with Oolong island, that is trying to mass produce some biological warfare so it can sell it on the open market. Well the Squad's been contacted to bring them down. But before they can be sent in, Eiling contacts one of their board, whom he's familiar with, to tell them what's going to happen. He wants to get out from under Waller's thumb, and asks for a seat on the board for his information. Meanwhile, it seems as if the Squad is going full bore in to this operation. We still got 3 issues to see how it all plays out. Fantastic series, with a great cast of characters. John Ostrander is really outdoing himself with this one. It's a great story. I am also really impressed by Javier Pina's pencils on this book. I first noticed them in the ManHunter series, but I think they're even better here. I really think this book is going to end up getting a regular series, after this mini. If it doesn't . . . it should. Definitely worth the price of admission.