Tom Taylor’s run on The Blue Beetle.
Already, the team has been through a bevy of upheavals, from being reformed with a bunch of new faces called The Revolutionaries under the command of Osito (and subsequently losing a few of those new faces), having to face down and death after having finally worked his way out of the squad.
Now on the run with a bounty on their heads from Ted Kord, who had been manipulating the group from behind the scenes, even holding them hostage with (now deactivated) bombs in their necks despite Harley and Floyd having paid their debt and been pardoned, it appears that the team, now de facto under the lead of Harley, is going to get their revenge. Or at least try.
Blue Beetle is chiefly known as a jocular former Kord has mainly stayed in the background up until now, finally revealing himself as the chief tormenter behind the Suicide Squad’s predicament in issue #5, in what can only be described as a total about face/heel turn. A billionaire industrialist and maniacal mastermind, he’ll have his hands full when the Suicide Squad/Revolutionaries come knocking.
Given that part of Kord’s plan seems to be eliminating former of the Suicide Squad, the parable Taylor weaves, alongside Bruno Redondo on art, seems to be a twisted mirror of the typical lone hero vs. army of villains trope, made even more prescient by the recent battle the squad engaged in with Batman, who often finds himself in similar situations. Sadly, the Suicide Squad does not share Batman’s no-kill rule, and will likely be coming at him guns a-blazin’. Or they would, but their resident gunman is apparently slated to die before the confrontation, so perhaps they’ll just be sticking to boomerangs and baseball bats.
Suicide Squad #10 goes on sale October 27th wherever comic books are sold.
