5 Things to Like About Suicide Squad #6

That Suicide Squad is back is one thing. That it's penned by John Ostrander, the same man who made the original series the best thing to come out of the 80s(TM) is quite another. Up to now, the mini-series has had its ups and downs, but issue 6 gets us back from a down and sets up what looks to be a great finale. Choosing 5 things wasn't easy and there's plenty of runner-ups, from Deadshot (always the best thing about any given issue of SS) to Multiplex getting shot in the head (don't worry, plenty of him to go around still).

1. Villains I don't want to see killedIn the Squad, when a lame Firestorm villain (well, usually it's a Firestorm villain) gets chosen for a mission, they die or are maimed horribly. You can usually spot the loser who's going to buy the farm from the opening briefing. But there's always the off chance that a more important character gets it, and from there you derive tension. So I wouldn't be surprised if White Dragon, Marauder and Twister get killed, but I'm actually worried about Plastique. Hey, us French Canadians have to stick together (even if she is a Quebec Sovereignist). At the very least, I want to see her survive so that a writer some day can put an actual Quebec accent in her mouth. "Toute ça pour moé?"

2. Carapax
Perfectly used to seeing Suicide Squad bring back loser villains from loser series (for more White Dragon, check out Hawkworld!), but Ostrander has brought Carapax back as the corporate equivalent of the USSR's Rocket Reds. It gives an old Blue Beetle villain a new lease on life. Now what about Firefist, the Muse, Overthrow and... oh Beetle, your rogue's gallery didn't amount to much, did it?

3. Justifying evil
How do a pair of religious super-villainesses justify their actions? Remember kids: Villains don't think of themselves as villains. Oh wait, that may not be a point I can defend...

4. Amanda Waller as Chemo jumping off an battleship
Only in the DC Universe. FWORMP!

5. An honest-to-God, true-blue, heart-stopping cliffhanger
I'm going to leave this one pictureless and spoiler-free, but I haven't wanted to flip to the next (still inexistant) page this much in a while.