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Suicide Squad: Get Joker! #1-3
Suicide Squad: Get Joker!
Two of comics’ most celebrated creators, Brian Azzarello and Alex Maleev, team up to pit Task Force X against their deadliest target yet—The Joker!
Critically acclaimed and bestselling author Brian Azzarello (100 Bullets, Batman: Damned) and Eisner Award-winning art legend Alex Maleev (Daredevil, Event Leviathan) collaborate for the first time in this DC Black Label series pitting Red Hood, Harley Quinn, Firefly, and more of DC’s most villainous criminals against The Joker!
When Task Force X’s Amanda Waller sets her sights on Batman’s greatest foe, she enlists the Dark Knight’s former partner Jason Todd to track down the Clown Prince of Crime and put an end to his mad reign of terror. But The Joker has plans of his own, and he takes control of the Squad, forcing them to do his bidding!
This volume collects Suicide Squad: Get Joker #1-3.
Critically acclaimed and bestselling author Brian Azzarello (100 Bullets, Batman: Damned) and Eisner Award-winning art legend Alex Maleev (Daredevil, Event Leviathan) collaborate for the first time in this DC Black Label series pitting Red Hood, Harley Quinn, Firefly, and more of DC’s most villainous criminals against The Joker!
When Task Force X’s Amanda Waller sets her sights on Batman’s greatest foe, she enlists the Dark Knight’s former partner Jason Todd to track down the Clown Prince of Crime and put an end to his mad reign of terror. But The Joker has plans of his own, and he takes control of the Squad, forcing them to do his bidding!
This volume collects Suicide Squad: Get Joker #1-3.
160 pages, Hardcover
First published July 5, 2022
About the author
Brian Azzarello
1,296 books1,114 followersBrian Azzarello (born in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American comic book writer. He came to prominence with 100 Bullets, published by DC Comics' mature-audience imprint Vertigo. He and Argentine artist Eduardo Risso, with whom Azzarello first worked on Jonny Double, won the 2001 Eisner Award for Best Serialized Story for 100 Bullets #15–18: "Hang Up on the Hang Low".
Azzarello has written for Batman ("Broken City", art by Risso; "Batman/Deathblow: After the Fire", art by Lee Bermejo, Tim Bradstreet, & Mick Gray) and Superman ("For Tomorrow", art by Jim Lee).
In 2005, Azzarello began a new creator-owned series, the western Loveless, with artist Marcelo Frusin.
As of 2007, Azzarello is married to fellow comic-book writer and illustrator Jill Thompson.
information taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Az...
Azzarello has written for Batman ("Broken City", art by Risso; "Batman/Deathblow: After the Fire", art by Lee Bermejo, Tim Bradstreet, & Mick Gray) and Superman ("For Tomorrow", art by Jim Lee).
In 2005, Azzarello began a new creator-owned series, the western Loveless, with artist Marcelo Frusin.
As of 2007, Azzarello is married to fellow comic-book writer and illustrator Jill Thompson.
information taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Az...
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July 28, 2022
Once again, Brian Azzarello mistakes shock value for a good story. He makes Wild Dog part of the Insurrection on Jan 6th to get some buzz for the book.
But that's not even the core of the story. Wild Dog is just the team dumb shit. It's an Elseworlds story where Red Hood is arrested for murdering criminals and takes over as leader of the Suicide Squad. They are sent on a mission to kill the Joker. This Joker is completely uninteresting. He's just a thug backed by Russia to cause chaos. He does do one interesting thing in this that in more capable hands could have been really interesting. . Unfortunately that really goes nowhere after the initial shock value.
Even Alex Maleev's art isn't up to his usual standards. Maleev fell really behind (It took 8 months for the final issue to come out.) and it shows. The last half of this is just characters running with no backgrounds and bullets flying everywhere. It's so static looking and there's no flow from panel to panel. It's like looking at a bunch of character sketches that were thrown together with bullet effects added in.
One thing that I found odd is that Jason Todd's curses were bleeped out at the beginning of the book. But then later on full on F-bombs were being dropped without getting edited out. It's like they decided to make this for mature audiences part way through.
But that's not even the core of the story. Wild Dog is just the team dumb shit. It's an Elseworlds story where Red Hood is arrested for murdering criminals and takes over as leader of the Suicide Squad. They are sent on a mission to kill the Joker. This Joker is completely uninteresting. He's just a thug backed by Russia to cause chaos. He does do one interesting thing in this that in more capable hands could have been really interesting. . Unfortunately that really goes nowhere after the initial shock value.
Even Alex Maleev's art isn't up to his usual standards. Maleev fell really behind (It took 8 months for the final issue to come out.) and it shows. The last half of this is just characters running with no backgrounds and bullets flying everywhere. It's so static looking and there's no flow from panel to panel. It's like looking at a bunch of character sketches that were thrown together with bullet effects added in.
One thing that I found odd is that Jason Todd's curses were bleeped out at the beginning of the book. But then later on full on F-bombs were being dropped without getting edited out. It's like they decided to make this for mature audiences part way through.
July 2, 2022
Simple enough premise. The Suicide Squad—now led by the Red Hood and including Harley Quinn, Firefly, Plastique, Silver Banshee, Wild Dog as well as newcomers Meow Meow, Pebbles, and Yonder Man—must find a way to finally kill the Joker.
I honestly hate Brian Azzarello, I think most of his work is total shit and this one doesn’t break from that trend. Besides Jason Todd’s character being written better than it usually is, this book really doesn’t have much going for it. I was sorta okay with the first two issues but the last one is so fucking mindless and tanks the quality of the book. It also took the final issue 8 months to come out, and it was most definitely not worth the wait, especially with how messy the art still is.
Speaking of the art, Alex Maleev really slacks on it here, with this easily being some of his worst interior work to date. A real shame since he was given a magazine-sized format, but I just have no fucking clue what is happening in some panels. There will be that rare occasion in comics where the art is so good you can actually see the movements occur as you read, but it’s the total opposite of that here. Everything is so fucking stiff, and none of the action flows well together with this messy ass script.
An ambiguous and kinda pathetic ending also just seals the deal on this being shit. I’d recommend skipping this and just reading Suicide Squad Blaze for a much better Black Label SS story. This one is not it at all, and a huge miss for DC Black Label.
I honestly hate Brian Azzarello, I think most of his work is total shit and this one doesn’t break from that trend. Besides Jason Todd’s character being written better than it usually is, this book really doesn’t have much going for it. I was sorta okay with the first two issues but the last one is so fucking mindless and tanks the quality of the book. It also took the final issue 8 months to come out, and it was most definitely not worth the wait, especially with how messy the art still is.
Speaking of the art, Alex Maleev really slacks on it here, with this easily being some of his worst interior work to date. A real shame since he was given a magazine-sized format, but I just have no fucking clue what is happening in some panels. There will be that rare occasion in comics where the art is so good you can actually see the movements occur as you read, but it’s the total opposite of that here. Everything is so fucking stiff, and none of the action flows well together with this messy ass script.
An ambiguous and kinda pathetic ending also just seals the deal on this being shit. I’d recommend skipping this and just reading Suicide Squad Blaze for a much better Black Label SS story. This one is not it at all, and a huge miss for DC Black Label.
July 26, 2022
Red Hood somehow gets drafted into the latest roster of the Suicide Squad. Their target? Get Joker! Get Joker what - a decent storyline to appear in? It’s been a while - and this book ain’t changing that! Then Joker takes Waller’s boom box that blows up the Squad. What’s gonna happen next? I’m sure most people can wait to never find out, and they would be the smart ones.
Which isn’t to say I disliked the book entirely. Brian Azzarello’s Harley is probably the most tolerable version of the character I’ve read in a minute because she’s not being an annoying Deadpool wannabe all the time. I liked that the new character, Wild Dog, is a Jan 6th insurrectionist, if only for showing how absurd those people are. Alex Maleev’s art is fine - if you’ve seen his art before, it’s exactly that again, no more, no less.
But what starts out promisingly doesn’t really go anywhere. Joker doesn’t do anything with the boom box. There are way too many scenes of characters sitting around doing nothing, or, when they’re not doing that, they’re brainlessly shooting each other. It wasn’t convincing how Jason Todd got captured in the first place or that Batman wouldn’t have gotten him out before Waller got her mitts on him. And why does she suddenly want to take out Joker now of all times? Hella contrived shenanigans.
The story’s not that interesting and the characters, both new and old, aren’t very interesting either. It’s also got one of those annoying Sopranos-style non-endings that’ll probably leave most readers unsatisfied. Azzarello’s written a great Joker book called, imaginatively, Joker, and I’d rec that instead of the weak and forgettable Suicide Squad: Get Better Already!
Which isn’t to say I disliked the book entirely. Brian Azzarello’s Harley is probably the most tolerable version of the character I’ve read in a minute because she’s not being an annoying Deadpool wannabe all the time. I liked that the new character, Wild Dog, is a Jan 6th insurrectionist, if only for showing how absurd those people are. Alex Maleev’s art is fine - if you’ve seen his art before, it’s exactly that again, no more, no less.
But what starts out promisingly doesn’t really go anywhere. Joker doesn’t do anything with the boom box. There are way too many scenes of characters sitting around doing nothing, or, when they’re not doing that, they’re brainlessly shooting each other. It wasn’t convincing how Jason Todd got captured in the first place or that Batman wouldn’t have gotten him out before Waller got her mitts on him. And why does she suddenly want to take out Joker now of all times? Hella contrived shenanigans.
The story’s not that interesting and the characters, both new and old, aren’t very interesting either. It’s also got one of those annoying Sopranos-style non-endings that’ll probably leave most readers unsatisfied. Azzarello’s written a great Joker book called, imaginatively, Joker, and I’d rec that instead of the weak and forgettable Suicide Squad: Get Better Already!
August 11, 2022
Suicide Squad: Get Joker! collects issues 1-3 of the DC Comics Black Label series written by Brian Azzarello with art by Alex Maleev.
Set in an alternate Earth, Red Hood/Jason Todd is arrested and jailed for vigilante murder. Sitting in prison, he is visited by Amanda Waller to lead the Suicide Squad in a mission to kill the Joker.
It is has an interesting premise but nothing of consequence is ever followed through. It felt like Azzarello just hit his story points to collect a paycheck. It also feels too similar to Tynion’s Joker ongoing series. There is an attempt at a lot of shock value and mixing today’s political climate into the story: one of the squad members participated in the January 6th insurrection, Russia is funding the Joker to cause chaos in Gotham, and Joker creates a child fodder army. The Joker is also extremely uninteresting in the book and is just kind of there, even when he gains control of an important plot device. The art is also not impressive in the series with half the panels not even having backgrounds. The whole book just feels like it could have been cancelled in the research phase but DC just decided “Ehhh, it has Suicide Squad in the title - release it anyways.”
Set in an alternate Earth, Red Hood/Jason Todd is arrested and jailed for vigilante murder. Sitting in prison, he is visited by Amanda Waller to lead the Suicide Squad in a mission to kill the Joker.
It is has an interesting premise but nothing of consequence is ever followed through. It felt like Azzarello just hit his story points to collect a paycheck. It also feels too similar to Tynion’s Joker ongoing series. There is an attempt at a lot of shock value and mixing today’s political climate into the story: one of the squad members participated in the January 6th insurrection, Russia is funding the Joker to cause chaos in Gotham, and Joker creates a child fodder army. The Joker is also extremely uninteresting in the book and is just kind of there, even when he gains control of an important plot device. The art is also not impressive in the series with half the panels not even having backgrounds. The whole book just feels like it could have been cancelled in the research phase but DC just decided “Ehhh, it has Suicide Squad in the title - release it anyways.”
July 28, 2022
I will unload a lot less criticism on you than other people reading this, and have to say I actually enjoyed it. Sure, it's a huge mess, sequences sometimes don't make sense, Harley is written terribly in this, Joker even worse, but I like that team, I like some scenes, I really enjoyed how Jason's character was written and, surprisingly, I liked the ending. 3/5
August 15, 2022
This was almost a five star book. Just a couple of things let it down. The first issue started strong. As the series went on Jason seemed to wilt. He seemed to become less of a leader. Also the last chapter seemed very rushed, also my personally I hate the ending.
This book lives up to the black label status. Not my favorite artwotk, but it fits thus story perfectly. From both the brutality and the language. Usually I don't like unnecessary swearing but here it seem authentic from the characters.
Finally it is time to take out the Joker and who better lead the charge than a man he killed previously and his former girlfriend. However when you hunt the Joker most of the time you end up the hunted.
A strong start, but not a great finish. Yhix is not s great thing for a stand alone story. The books also finishes with varient cover gallery.
This book lives up to the black label status. Not my favorite artwotk, but it fits thus story perfectly. From both the brutality and the language. Usually I don't like unnecessary swearing but here it seem authentic from the characters.
Finally it is time to take out the Joker and who better lead the charge than a man he killed previously and his former girlfriend. However when you hunt the Joker most of the time you end up the hunted.
A strong start, but not a great finish. Yhix is not s great thing for a stand alone story. The books also finishes with varient cover gallery.
July 2, 2022
This started out strong but then went downhill. Sexy Harley Quinn appearance, but the ending?
This had a lot of potential, but seemed to fizzle. Good art for the most part, but it really off the rails story wise.
This had a lot of potential, but seemed to fizzle. Good art for the most part, but it really off the rails story wise.
May 12, 2022
I enjoyed the first third or so, but the last portion felt rushed. The emotional confrontations I wanted felt nonexistent. And the ending seemed unearned and a cheat. 2.5/5 stars.
March 16, 2025
It was a very good read. I really enjoyed it. Very good dialogs from Azzarello and Maleev's art was so good. I like Jason Todd as a villain, that way he is one of Batman's mistakes and i kind of like Jason Todd as a murderous vigilante who is not apporoved by Batman, that way he is still a mistake, but i hate Jason Todd as a part of Bat Family. I mean what happened to no kill code ? just went out of the window ? lol But Jason Todd should have stayed dead, if you ask me. He was a very good character as a failure (Batman couldn't save him) and as a mistake (he was an evil Robin) of Batman.
Amanda Waller gathered a new Suicide Squad team which was led by Jason Todd to kill Joker. But the Clown Prince of Crime had good intel and he located Amanda Waller and put her into a coma and stole the trigger box of the bombs which were injected on the neck of the Jason's team. Now, the team's control was in the Joker's hands. What would happen ? I liked the embigius end. A single shot was heard, but who shot who was embigious. Jason was in ''Joker didn't kill me, hello (waves) i am still alive'' mentality so he had no gruge against Joker, that was very good. I liked it alot, that should be the mentalty of Jason in canon.
Wild Dog was a funny character, i liked him as well. I really chuckled at ''i call it Yondering, i make it my own'' line. lol That Yondering guy lol was harmless compared to all those cold blooded killers in the team. Joker's A Clock Work Orange, costume and lines were ok. As soon as i watched A Clock Work Orange and Caligula films of Malcolm McDowell on dvd, i thought he would make a great Joker.
Amanda Waller gathered a new Suicide Squad team which was led by Jason Todd to kill Joker. But the Clown Prince of Crime had good intel and he located Amanda Waller and put her into a coma and stole the trigger box of the bombs which were injected on the neck of the Jason's team. Now, the team's control was in the Joker's hands. What would happen ? I liked the embigius end. A single shot was heard, but who shot who was embigious. Jason was in ''Joker didn't kill me, hello (waves) i am still alive'' mentality so he had no gruge against Joker, that was very good. I liked it alot, that should be the mentalty of Jason in canon.
Wild Dog was a funny character, i liked him as well. I really chuckled at ''i call it Yondering, i make it my own'' line. lol That Yondering guy lol was harmless compared to all those cold blooded killers in the team. Joker's A Clock Work Orange, costume and lines were ok. As soon as i watched A Clock Work Orange and Caligula films of Malcolm McDowell on dvd, i thought he would make a great Joker.
May 26, 2022
Maleev just isn't one of my favorites but his sketchy art fit here.... I'm not sure Azzarello knew what he was doing here and then it rushes to end. Maybe it needed one more issue. Great characterization on Red Hood, Pebbles, and the Joker. They get moments. Everyone else stands around. Joker is eternal, and no one GETS him.
March 31, 2024
Honestly, just fine.
When I picked this up I hoped it would be the version of the first suicide squad movie I wanted. The squad being sent to finally end the joker.
And while that's the premise the execution is muddied.
And there are elements that feel similarly like the editorial mandate Messing with the flow.
A significant part of the jokers inclusion seem to be for a clock work orange gag.
The characters are a bit muddled. The timeline more so.
Some great concepts, some lazy concepts. Betrayals not feeling earned.
The art was maleevs usual standard, but perhaps without the atmosphere of his earlier work.
Azzarellos ear for dialect still resonates, and some of the gags and thematic throughlines and ideas are excellent.
But some of the gags fall flat or run out of steam quickly ( a MAGA esque vigilante feeling more trite than biting satire for example)
Not bad.
But I had very much hoped for more
When I picked this up I hoped it would be the version of the first suicide squad movie I wanted. The squad being sent to finally end the joker.
And while that's the premise the execution is muddied.
And there are elements that feel similarly like the editorial mandate Messing with the flow.
A significant part of the jokers inclusion seem to be for a clock work orange gag.
The characters are a bit muddled. The timeline more so.
Some great concepts, some lazy concepts. Betrayals not feeling earned.
The art was maleevs usual standard, but perhaps without the atmosphere of his earlier work.
Azzarellos ear for dialect still resonates, and some of the gags and thematic throughlines and ideas are excellent.
But some of the gags fall flat or run out of steam quickly ( a MAGA esque vigilante feeling more trite than biting satire for example)
Not bad.
But I had very much hoped for more
January 1, 2023
Easy to see why Azzarello’s Suicide Squad is so divisive, especially given the long wait time between 2 & 3. But once I went back through it start to finish I really enjoyed it for the over the top random characters and moments.
November 23, 2023
2 stars is generous for this book and it’s only because I enjoyed the art so much. This story sucked. Scattered and unclear for most of the book, but worst of all was that it just felt so lazily written.
April 22, 2022
A fun, original Suicide Squad story.
November 20, 2022
Wow. What a disappointment this was. I'm actually almost sad I spend money on buying this. The script was terrible. Almost non of the characters were well written. With so little dialogue it was amazing how little of it made any sense. There were legit moments where I wasn't sure if there were words missing in the sentences because they just made so little sense. Same goes for the story and the plot. It seemed such a simple plot, Jason Todd is put on the Suicide Squad to kill the man who killed him. You'd think there's enough tension and suspense in that for a plot with some meat on it but somehow it manages to fail miserably. I was confused most of the time as to what was happening, who was shooting who and what for. Time that could have been spend better diving into the tension of Jason facing the joker or literally anything that had to do with the large cast of characters was wasted with just an obscene amount of panels with nothing but gunfire and explosions. Which brings me to just how terribly messy the art was to match. All of the combat which took up most of the book was so stagnant and stiff. Nothing flowed and a lot of the page layouts didn't make sense. Things would happen seemingly out of thin air and I felt like several panels were missing somehow to explain the page. The backgrounds were so boring and uninspired as well. The only two good things was Jason Todd's few moments of brilliance and the ambiguous ending which I actually liked. Other than that this really felt like a waste of time.
December 27, 2022
Fazia tempo que eu não gostava de um trabalho do Brian Azzarello. E que bom que ele parou de trabalhar com o Lee Bermejo e seus desenhos de papel amassado. O roteiro de Esquadrão Suicida: Alvo: Coringa, poderia muito bem servir para uma película da equipe e que iria ser muito melhor do que a proposta feita por David Ayer no malsucedido filme que também tinha o Coringa. Os desenhos cinematográficos de Alex Maleev são incríveis e contém uma narrativa muito boa de se acompanhar, cheia de ação e explosões que a brucutizice dos integrates do Esquadrão Suicida pedem. Não costumo gostar desse tipo de coisa, mas levando em conta que todos os personagens são vilões, faz sentido que ajam como uns neanderthais sem escrúpulos e com impetos de lirarem sua cara e ainda tirarem alguma vantagem para si. Azzarello desta vez foge do óbvio e realmente entrega aquele Azzarello que vimos em 100 Balas e em Constantine e não nessas recentes HQs batmanianas com o Lee "papel amassado" Bermejo. É, às vezes parece que faz bem mudar um pouco as parcerias...
January 11, 2023
Brian Azzarello continues to be my least favorite mainstream comic book writer with a bonehead edgy miniseries about Red Hood leading a Suicide Squad team to kill the Joker.
For some reason, this book decided to rip off the 2016 Suicide Squad movie even after the 2021 one, but just might be even worse. Subplots go nowhere, characters commit dumb actions for no reason, and the whole thing just feels pointless.
There isn’t even a real reason to send the Suicide Squad to kill (!!) Joker, who has been accused of crimes like “spreading new urban legends” and “making GPS go the wrong way”. Even the art, in full magazine format, is uninteresting. The best thing I can say about it is that it’s “big”.
But the worst offense has to be the number of cringey “jokes” in this, maybe best summed up by an exchange between Red Hood and Harley:
“This is it.”
“You mean this is shit.”
They must want to get joker so bad so they can actually be funny.
1 Whossian out of 5
For some reason, this book decided to rip off the 2016 Suicide Squad movie even after the 2021 one, but just might be even worse. Subplots go nowhere, characters commit dumb actions for no reason, and the whole thing just feels pointless.
There isn’t even a real reason to send the Suicide Squad to kill (!!) Joker, who has been accused of crimes like “spreading new urban legends” and “making GPS go the wrong way”. Even the art, in full magazine format, is uninteresting. The best thing I can say about it is that it’s “big”.
But the worst offense has to be the number of cringey “jokes” in this, maybe best summed up by an exchange between Red Hood and Harley:
“This is it.”
“You mean this is shit.”
They must want to get joker so bad so they can actually be funny.
1 Whossian out of 5
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 21, 2026
Waller sends a Suicide Squad to kill Joker, then when he steals the thing she controls them with, she sends another Suicide Squad to kill the first one.
I've (almost) always liked Suicide Squad for showcasing lesser-known villains and for the fact that almost any member of the team could die on the mission. I really liked the old squad back in the 90s with Captain Boomerang, Count Vertigo and Deadshot.
I really liked the humor in the dialog, but I was confused by some of the action. Like why were the squad shooting at the ocean?
I've (almost) always liked Suicide Squad for showcasing lesser-known villains and for the fact that almost any member of the team could die on the mission. I really liked the old squad back in the 90s with Captain Boomerang, Count Vertigo and Deadshot.
I really liked the humor in the dialog, but I was confused by some of the action. Like why were the squad shooting at the ocean?
November 12, 2024
Na to, že Azzarello mě obvykle fakt nebaví, tak tohle šlo. Po konci první části jsem měl chuť to hodnotit ještě výš, ale nakonec dost zajímavý nápad (nebudu spoilerovat) vyšumí do nikam. Ona taky samotná hlavní premisa - vyslat tým Suicide Squad v čele s Red Hoodem zabít Jokera - zní vlastně dost nudně, protože je vám hned jasný, jak ve světech, kde je status quo obchodním tajemstvím, tyhle věci dopadaj. Pokud to teda není váš první komiks ze světa DC nebo Marvelu.
Kresba super.
Kresba super.
January 26, 2023
A good one. Not a memorable story,but the artwork is recompensing ! 5 stars for the visonary artists ! And what happened in the end ? ....
And also disapointed, a beatiful hardcover comic is isn't contain extra pages or sketches :(
And also disapointed, a beatiful hardcover comic is isn't contain extra pages or sketches :(
March 10, 2023
Páni... tohle bylo strašný. Azzarello to píše jak 15letej edgelord, co si myslí, že když se bude mluvit sprostě a zabíjet, bude to velkej drsnej dospělej komiks.
August 3, 2025
just popping in to say this was complete ass
January 26, 2023
[2.5 stars]
This book has a really cool idea, and I like Jason Todd’s suit, but every new idea they introduce is left unfinished, and this book just feels rushed. I remember buying it thinking “how could they fuck up a plot like this!” And then reading it and going “oh I see…”
This book has a really cool idea, and I like Jason Todd’s suit, but every new idea they introduce is left unfinished, and this book just feels rushed. I remember buying it thinking “how could they fuck up a plot like this!” And then reading it and going “oh I see…”
February 14, 2023
The artwork was very good. The story an unstable framework of improbabilities and incongruities supporting a pile of F-Bombs.
Monkeys with typewriters could have come up with a better story.
Monkeys with typewriters could have come up with a better story.
September 27, 2023
This is… not very good. Awful shite ending.
April 23, 2023
Brian Azzarello has crafted a Suicide Squad tale here that would make a better movie than either of the two we’ve received thus far. In this one, though, Red Hood, née Robin, née Jason Todd, in prison for his own crimefighting crimes is recruited by Amanda Waller to lead Task Force X in a mission to kill the man who supposedly killed Todd, Joker. It’s a decent storyline and feels very akin to the two SS movies we’ve had so far just with a cooler plot and twists and no giant starfish. Unfortunately, though it does keep Jared Leto’s Joker, but I guess it kinda has to.
I would watch the film though.
I would watch the film though.
September 3, 2022
I still don't like how Azzarello writes Joker. I really came because I usually love Maleev's art, but this is just not his best work.
June 17, 2023
Jag unnar mig på att börja med några detaljer. Texknaren Alex Maleevs stil lämpar sig bra för den här typen av historier. Manuset är lite spretigt (jag kommer till det) och här har vi ett bra exempel på när stil och illustrationer täcker en del av manusets svagare sidor.
Matt Hollingsworth har färglagt och han bör också få en liten eloge. Det känns väldigt vuxet.
Manuset är inte särskilt vuxet dock.
Vi följer Jason Todd fd Robin och Red Hood. Jag har inte riktigt stenkoll på hur DC Black Label måste förhålla sig till tidigare serier men Jason Todd blev mördad av Jokern (och läsarna om man ska vara noga, dom fick rösta nämligen) men sedan väckt till liv igen som det så gärna blir. Sen kom han tillbaka som Red Hood. Mycket Batman-issues...
Hade dom haft möjlighet kanske dom skulle skippat den där biten där folk blir återuppväcka från de döda, nu är det dock en del av karaktären så det är det bara att rulla med det.
Han blir kontaktad av Amada Waller och Suicide Squads uppdrag blir att döda Jokern.
Det var på tiden och känns logiskt.
Det är några nya förmågor förutom Harly Quinn och Red (Jason Todd) men frånvaron av Läderlappen blir lite konstigt då det blir lite av en Batmangrej med så mycket fokus på ovanstående karaktärer.
Det är nödvändigtvis inte direkt dåligt. Bara inte så vuxet som DC Black Label vill påskina och allmänt lite ofokuserat.
I recensionen av Suicide Squad: Blaze uttryckte jag mig så här:
Det lite negativa är att DC black label är riktat mot vuxna och gärna vill försöka få det att bli lite vuxnare och mer filosofiskt än vad det egentligen är och ofta gör den ambitionen att det ibland är lite svårt att knyta ihop säcken. Men det är en liten petitess i sammanhanget."
I Suicide Squad: Get Joker! så blir det mer än bara en litet petitess.
Det är inte mer än en superhjälteserie där alla händelseförlopp inte måste vara helt logiska, problemet är att DC Black Label skyltar om något annat.
Manuset är underhållande men slarvigt. Man blandar in Ryssland lite bara för att det ska bli politiskt, slutet är bara ett försök till dramatik som jag inte riktigt blir övertygad av..
Red har också haft många tillfällen att knäppa Jokern och eventuellt lösa hela situationen med ett telefonsamtal men .... Som sagt superhjälteserier behöver inte alltid vara realistiskt logiska.
Utom när dom utger sig för att vara det.
Nu låter jag lite grinigare än jag egentligen är. Det är en hyfsad serie i samma anda som filmerna. Jokern är rätt otäck, snyggt tecknad och jag är underhållen. En ganska stark 3:a
Matt Hollingsworth har färglagt och han bör också få en liten eloge. Det känns väldigt vuxet.
Manuset är inte särskilt vuxet dock.
Vi följer Jason Todd fd Robin och Red Hood. Jag har inte riktigt stenkoll på hur DC Black Label måste förhålla sig till tidigare serier men Jason Todd blev mördad av Jokern (och läsarna om man ska vara noga, dom fick rösta nämligen) men sedan väckt till liv igen som det så gärna blir. Sen kom han tillbaka som Red Hood. Mycket Batman-issues...
Hade dom haft möjlighet kanske dom skulle skippat den där biten där folk blir återuppväcka från de döda, nu är det dock en del av karaktären så det är det bara att rulla med det.
Han blir kontaktad av Amada Waller och Suicide Squads uppdrag blir att döda Jokern.
Det var på tiden och känns logiskt.
Det är några nya förmågor förutom Harly Quinn och Red (Jason Todd) men frånvaron av Läderlappen blir lite konstigt då det blir lite av en Batmangrej med så mycket fokus på ovanstående karaktärer.
Det är nödvändigtvis inte direkt dåligt. Bara inte så vuxet som DC Black Label vill påskina och allmänt lite ofokuserat.
I recensionen av Suicide Squad: Blaze uttryckte jag mig så här:
Det lite negativa är att DC black label är riktat mot vuxna och gärna vill försöka få det att bli lite vuxnare och mer filosofiskt än vad det egentligen är och ofta gör den ambitionen att det ibland är lite svårt att knyta ihop säcken. Men det är en liten petitess i sammanhanget."
I Suicide Squad: Get Joker! så blir det mer än bara en litet petitess.
Det är inte mer än en superhjälteserie där alla händelseförlopp inte måste vara helt logiska, problemet är att DC Black Label skyltar om något annat.
Manuset är underhållande men slarvigt. Man blandar in Ryssland lite bara för att det ska bli politiskt, slutet är bara ett försök till dramatik som jag inte riktigt blir övertygad av..
Red har också haft många tillfällen att knäppa Jokern och eventuellt lösa hela situationen med ett telefonsamtal men .... Som sagt superhjälteserier behöver inte alltid vara realistiskt logiska.
Utom när dom utger sig för att vara det.
Nu låter jag lite grinigare än jag egentligen är. Det är en hyfsad serie i samma anda som filmerna. Jokern är rätt otäck, snyggt tecknad och jag är underhållen. En ganska stark 3:a
August 9, 2022
It was okay. Had some fun Suicide Squad moment, but was frequently edgy without any actual bite.
It's pretty much just an average Suicide Squad story, except characters who'd normally not be allowed to die aren't editorially immune and that the artist is allowed to draw teeth and jawbones from exploding skulls. That's it. There's really no difference between this and any other run of the mill Suicide Squad story. There are a few sequences which suggest that some messed up things are about to happen, but those proceed to happen off panel.
The Black Label imprint is little more than a gimmick to sell books. If Get Joker! had been published as a regular Elseworlds story, it wouldn't have been any different. Nothing in this book is more "mature" or "adult" than the worst of, say, the New 52's Suicide Squad and Justice League Dark stories. There's nothing that would've been cut if it were published outside the Black Label imprint.
To be sure, I wasn't going into this looking forward to some messed up situations. I was in it for a good Suicide Squad story, maybe one that was a little unfettered compared to previous stories. Get Joker! is neither of those things. Some parts are funny, some parts elicit an eye roll, some are kind of exciting, but the bulk of it is mediocre to average at best.
Read it if you're jonesing for a Suicide Squad story, but don't expect anything groundbreaking, and certainly don't expect anything extra from the Black Label imprint (which is just a gimmick, anyways; I've read several graphic novels in this imprint and none of them are any more "DC After Dark" than the average John Constantine story).
It's pretty much just an average Suicide Squad story, except characters who'd normally not be allowed to die aren't editorially immune and that the artist is allowed to draw teeth and jawbones from exploding skulls. That's it. There's really no difference between this and any other run of the mill Suicide Squad story. There are a few sequences which suggest that some messed up things are about to happen, but those proceed to happen off panel.
The Black Label imprint is little more than a gimmick to sell books. If Get Joker! had been published as a regular Elseworlds story, it wouldn't have been any different. Nothing in this book is more "mature" or "adult" than the worst of, say, the New 52's Suicide Squad and Justice League Dark stories. There's nothing that would've been cut if it were published outside the Black Label imprint.
To be sure, I wasn't going into this looking forward to some messed up situations. I was in it for a good Suicide Squad story, maybe one that was a little unfettered compared to previous stories. Get Joker! is neither of those things. Some parts are funny, some parts elicit an eye roll, some are kind of exciting, but the bulk of it is mediocre to average at best.
Read it if you're jonesing for a Suicide Squad story, but don't expect anything groundbreaking, and certainly don't expect anything extra from the Black Label imprint (which is just a gimmick, anyways; I've read several graphic novels in this imprint and none of them are any more "DC After Dark" than the average John Constantine story).
June 11, 2022
I LOVED 100 Bullets. The scope and scale were amazing. I LIKED First Wave. It was fun to see classic pulp fiction added to DC. I TOLERATED Batman: Damned. The start of Black Label as a mature content avenue for DC, it had promise but couldn't always deliver.
Suicide Squad: Get Joker! is another of Azzarello's attempts to strike gold like he did with 100 Bullets and 'Joker'...even 'Luthor' did well. This is a frenetic mess, in my opinion. The art is very sketchy. Literally looks like partially complete sketches. Maybe some will enjoy that style. I couldn't get into it.
As for story, we have Jason Todd being pushed through the Taskforce X acquisition protocols because Waller wants them to nab Joker. The two (Jason Todd and the Joker) have a history and Waller uses that to goad Jason into going along with her plan.
The rest is typical Suicide Squad shenanigans. The only difference is we get WAY more graphic violence in a 'Black Label' Suicide Squad. Could be good, right? This doesn't really have any drive. The gunshots are stylized enough that you can barely discern what's going on. So much for 'mature content'.
I was along for the ride for 2/3 of the story, but by the final act I was lost. The ending? Felt tacked on, as if the writer didn't care what you made of their decisions.
Is it a good story? yes. Is it a GREAT story? not even close. If you loved the Suicide Squad movies and you're a Joker fan, this will be a fun, quick read.
Bonus: Pebbles is the codename he chose.
Bonus Bonus: why is Harley in her underwear for the last 1/3 of the story?
Suicide Squad: Get Joker! is another of Azzarello's attempts to strike gold like he did with 100 Bullets and 'Joker'...even 'Luthor' did well. This is a frenetic mess, in my opinion. The art is very sketchy. Literally looks like partially complete sketches. Maybe some will enjoy that style. I couldn't get into it.
As for story, we have Jason Todd being pushed through the Taskforce X acquisition protocols because Waller wants them to nab Joker. The two (Jason Todd and the Joker) have a history and Waller uses that to goad Jason into going along with her plan.
The rest is typical Suicide Squad shenanigans. The only difference is we get WAY more graphic violence in a 'Black Label' Suicide Squad. Could be good, right? This doesn't really have any drive. The gunshots are stylized enough that you can barely discern what's going on. So much for 'mature content'.
I was along for the ride for 2/3 of the story, but by the final act I was lost. The ending? Felt tacked on, as if the writer didn't care what you made of their decisions.
Is it a good story? yes. Is it a GREAT story? not even close. If you loved the Suicide Squad movies and you're a Joker fan, this will be a fun, quick read.
Bonus: Pebbles is the codename he chose.
Bonus Bonus: why is Harley in her underwear for the last 1/3 of the story?
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