Time to start working together as a team.
Suicide Squad is a good comic, but there's a constant, nagging sense that it could be better if it were structured differently. The decision to break the main storyline into small chunks and fill out the second half of each issue with backup tales isn't doing the new series any favors right now. Even with the twice-monthly shipping schedule, this book is moving too slowly for its own good.
It doesn't help that the backup in issue #3 is the weakest of the bunch so far. Writer Rob Williams teams up with artist Philip Tan (previously seen on the Suicide Squad Rebirth one-shot) for a closer look at Katana's past. Tan impresses with his versatility, delivering a much cleaner and more sentimental style than his last Suicide Squad outing. That's enhanced by the warm, sentimental colors of Elmer Santos. But this story does little more than have Amanda Waller read Tatsu's life story aloud. It brings nothing new to the table and fails to mine that origin story for its full dramatic weight.
The main story satisfies mostly on a visceral level. Here, Williams devotes more attention to the general team dynamic as the various Squad members struggle to survive the onslaught of General Zod. As neat as it is seeing the team go toe-to-toe with an A-List DC villain, Zod's contribution to the plot is pretty basic. The role could be filled by any number of raging powerhouse villains with no impact on the book. But at least there's ample entertainment to be had in watching the Squad battle for their lives. Harley Quinn in particular is a hoot as she dashes back and forth and tries to throw her teammates under the bus. But as for tangible plot progression, this new chapter has little to offer.
The novelty of having Jim Lee on a twice-monthly comic has yet to wear off, even if that only yields 10-12 pages at a time. Lee's dynamic, highly detailed style is right at home in the grim and violent world of the Suicide Squad. Lee's action scenes rarely disappoint here. It is weird to see Zod's physical size accelerated to such a massive degree, but it does illustrate one principal that dates back to Lee's time drawing Magneto in the X-Men comics. If you're going to pit an entire team against one villain, that villain had darned well better be physically imposing.
The Verdict
There's no denying that DC's new Suicide Squad comic is an improvement over what the New 52 had to offer. This issue offers up some great art and a generally fun team dynamic. But the series is suffering from its odd structure and the fact that the plot advances little from chapter to chapter. The relatively weaker backup story in this issue doesn't help matters.
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