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Suicide Squad 1-11
Another Tom Taylor title! Picked up the hardcover collection after hearing some good stuff about this. Super fun, with a mostly-original (Harley Quinn and Deadshot also show up) cast of characters that I hope Taylor is able to revisit someday.
Azrael 15-16
Batman 529
Batman: Shadow of the Bat 48-49
Batman Chronicles 4
Catwoman 31-32
Detective Comics 695-696
Robin 27-28
The Contagion event. Ebola is set loose in Gotham, and the race is on to find a cure. Turns out the search was a MacGuffin the whole time and none of it matters, while the actual antidote is discovered and distributed in the span of one issue when Azrael’s team discovers that they had the formula in one of their books (and one of the few people in the world who can translate it) all along.
Here Chuck Dixon falls in one of all time my biggest fiction pet peeves: The magical cure that brings a victim back from the brink of death to perfect health in absolutely no time at all. You can’t get cured from Ebola when your body’s that far gone! Tim Drake’s jumping around performing heroics literally hours after experiencing these symptoms:
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The first couple of issues are pretty well done. Especially with COVID going on IRL, watching the spread of another virus from Patient Zero is unsettling. There’s a feeling of dread and inevitability that permeates the story that’s all too real before the more comic book-y aspects kick in.
Overall, better in concept than execution.
Regret buying: No
Would buy again: No
Would read again: Yes
Rating: Fine
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