Early in Mark Waid’s DC K.O.: Justice League Unlimited, there’s a reference to the various Suicide Squads. It’s an early indication of where the story is going, a book rife with gore uncharacteristic of both Unlimited and Waid, indeed invoking John Ostrander’s original series.
That’s not bad on its face. But Waid, self-professed new historian of the DC Universe, makes a few missteps in his use of time-lost historical characters here. That, plus killing them off bloodily, combines to rankle me perhaps more than it should.
