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Task Force Z (2021) (Single Issues)
Task Force Z (2021-) #1
In life, they’ve terrorized the people of Gotham. Now, they are Gotham’s last hope. Task Force X saw villains working their way to freedom. Task Force Z will see dead villains working for a new chance at life! On A-DAY, the attack on Arkham Asylum left hundreds of Gotham’s most cunning and deranged criminals dead…now, a mysterious benefactor has activated the government’s TASK FORCE clause to bring them back as the ultimate army of the night! To lead this team of the undead, only a person who knows exactly what it feels like to be brutally murdered and brought back to life can handle the job…enter: RED HOOD. But when Jason Todd unravels the mystery surrounding Task Force Z’s creation, will he try to destroy it…or embrace it? BANE. MAN-BAT. THE ARKHAM KNIGHT. SUNDOWNER. MR. BLOOM. RED HOOD. THEY ARE TASK FORCE Z, AND DEATH WAS JUST THE BEGINNING...!
26 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 26, 2021
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Matthew Rosenberg
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"I haven’t always been a writer. My parents are writers and my brother is a writer, and I resisted that as long as I could. When I was 17, I hopped in a band’s van and I went on tour for a summer, and that was it, that was what I wanted to do. I ran a record label for 10 years, a small indie punk label. I did everything in music that you can do that doesn’t involve having musical ability. Eventually the music business, probably in a similar way to comics, will just start to break your heart, and I realized one day that I kind of hated music. I was resigned to thinking, if I’m going to be involved in music forever, I’m going to hate it for the rest of my life. I just stopped. I stopped having any sort of business with music, any involvement.
I read comics my whole life, so I just naturally fell back into another medium that is marginalized and hard to make a living in."
Source: http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles...
Writer of comics WE CAN NEVER GO HOME, SECRET WARS JOURNAL, OUR WORK FILLS THE PEWS, 12 REASONS TO DIE, & MENU.
There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name
"I haven’t always been a writer. My parents are writers and my brother is a writer, and I resisted that as long as I could. When I was 17, I hopped in a band’s van and I went on tour for a summer, and that was it, that was what I wanted to do. I ran a record label for 10 years, a small indie punk label. I did everything in music that you can do that doesn’t involve having musical ability. Eventually the music business, probably in a similar way to comics, will just start to break your heart, and I realized one day that I kind of hated music. I was resigned to thinking, if I’m going to be involved in music forever, I’m going to hate it for the rest of my life. I just stopped. I stopped having any sort of business with music, any involvement.
I read comics my whole life, so I just naturally fell back into another medium that is marginalized and hard to make a living in."
Source: http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles...
Writer of comics WE CAN NEVER GO HOME, SECRET WARS JOURNAL, OUR WORK FILLS THE PEWS, 12 REASONS TO DIE, & MENU.
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November 15, 2021
I became interested in this story through the extras in the Batman Detective Comics, and then, I saw an add for this series and knew I had to buy it. It was different than I expected but really interesting. I like the concept (something like a Suicide Squad but with Lazarus serum, and I won’t say more), and I find the characters interesting. The ending was good, so I’ll definitely want to read #2!
November 8, 2021
Great art, colouring and even lettering. Really enjoyable writing, with lots of fun, action and even some mystery thrown in. It's apparently a slow building story, with this issue being a bit more like an introductory to all the characters and their motivations than the beginning of the actual plot. It kind of starts in media res, but not exactly. Anyways, it wasn't great, but still, it was fun and fast paced. I'm definitely looking forward to the next issue, and see how this story builds up issue after issue. Deserves at least 3 starts, or even 3 and a half.
January 7, 2022
So I'm apparently in the minority: I unabashedly love this, but I've read the 'Road to Task Force Z' story in Detective comics - and I will reread those issues eventually, but I had to travel and didn't want to carry them for a small portion of the comics.
TFZ wasn't what I expected: Road to TFZ was funny in a completely different way, but I also wanted to see if Rosenberg really had a grip on Red Hood: Jason Todd is my favorite Robin and while I still probably would have read this - and yes, subscribed - if it was even fair writing of him, I wanted it to be good.
Rosenberg delivers. Jason walks a fine line: he wants to be better than he was, but also recognizes the things he's done that... are not so great. Like all the murder. So of course, Crispin, the disembodied voice that is Jason's connection to the murky higher-ups at TFZ uses that against him. Jason, he declares, is just as much of a monster as the rest of Task Force Z, but sees himself as a hero. (I disagree: Bane, for example, killed for power, while Jason was truly trying to protect innocent people. Anti heroes aren't villains, although one can argue they're not as pure as Batman, say, who doesn't resort to the violence anti heroes are prone to. Crispin conflates the two as just as bad, which I think isn't as nuanced as it should be - but here we are.)
He also doesn't want to lead a team of supervillains who are now undead, although Crispin is irked by the term 'zombies.' (They're dead, brought back, and eat people: they're zombies even if the TFZ policy is not to call them zombies.). Jason was led to believe he'd lead a team, but he hasn't been told about this. He sees TFZ as uncontrollable - and expendable - and doesn't think this will work.
Still, he has no choice: captured by the police, traded - for what, we're not sure yet - so Crispin and unnamed others can use him, Jason has no choice. He's unnerved the more he learns: a normal seeming, self-declared lady is in the containment wing, and he's sure she'll be killed. This decision taps into Jason's protectiveness, and women and children are his big 'weakness': he will protect them at any cost, unless, of course, they're what he considers evil (legitimate super villains, mobsters who order/carry out hits, etc.). He gets exposed to the Lazarus resin that revives these villains - and has to take a decontamination shower because they don't know what it will do to living people. (Or living people who were revived after death, but not zombies in this case, I guess.) There's a lot he hasn't been told, or that has been obscured: sure, he was told the resin was safe, but not 'relatively safe' in that they know what it does to dead people, and not much more. There's reasons to be suspicious, and bitterly regret being dragged into this.
I hope he finds out what's happening soon.
Anyway, great writing, some really funny lines, some serious scenes that give us a peek into the tensions between the team, between Jason and Crispin, the doctor might be cloned, I guess? The art is just beautiful.
Love, love, love. Just glancing at the reviews, I see my opinion isn't the popular one, but so far this has been five stars for me all the way: I'm truly enjoying this title.
TFZ wasn't what I expected: Road to TFZ was funny in a completely different way, but I also wanted to see if Rosenberg really had a grip on Red Hood: Jason Todd is my favorite Robin and while I still probably would have read this - and yes, subscribed - if it was even fair writing of him, I wanted it to be good.
Rosenberg delivers. Jason walks a fine line: he wants to be better than he was, but also recognizes the things he's done that... are not so great. Like all the murder. So of course, Crispin, the disembodied voice that is Jason's connection to the murky higher-ups at TFZ uses that against him. Jason, he declares, is just as much of a monster as the rest of Task Force Z, but sees himself as a hero. (I disagree: Bane, for example, killed for power, while Jason was truly trying to protect innocent people. Anti heroes aren't villains, although one can argue they're not as pure as Batman, say, who doesn't resort to the violence anti heroes are prone to. Crispin conflates the two as just as bad, which I think isn't as nuanced as it should be - but here we are.)
He also doesn't want to lead a team of supervillains who are now undead, although Crispin is irked by the term 'zombies.' (They're dead, brought back, and eat people: they're zombies even if the TFZ policy is not to call them zombies.). Jason was led to believe he'd lead a team, but he hasn't been told about this. He sees TFZ as uncontrollable - and expendable - and doesn't think this will work.
Still, he has no choice: captured by the police, traded - for what, we're not sure yet - so Crispin and unnamed others can use him, Jason has no choice. He's unnerved the more he learns: a normal seeming, self-declared lady is in the containment wing, and he's sure she'll be killed. This decision taps into Jason's protectiveness, and women and children are his big 'weakness': he will protect them at any cost, unless, of course, they're what he considers evil (legitimate super villains, mobsters who order/carry out hits, etc.). He gets exposed to the Lazarus resin that revives these villains - and has to take a decontamination shower because they don't know what it will do to living people. (Or living people who were revived after death, but not zombies in this case, I guess.) There's a lot he hasn't been told, or that has been obscured: sure, he was told the resin was safe, but not 'relatively safe' in that they know what it does to dead people, and not much more. There's reasons to be suspicious, and bitterly regret being dragged into this.
I hope he finds out what's happening soon.
Anyway, great writing, some really funny lines, some serious scenes that give us a peek into the tensions between the team, between Jason and Crispin, the doctor might be cloned, I guess? The art is just beautiful.
Love, love, love. Just glancing at the reviews, I see my opinion isn't the popular one, but so far this has been five stars for me all the way: I'm truly enjoying this title.
November 2, 2021
Pensaba que era una serie independiente en la línea de DCesead o los nuevos comises de Vampiros en el Universo DC. No me esperaba que en la línea canonica de Future State exista un Escuadrón Zombi capitaneado por Red Hood. No sé hasta qué punto esta serie tendrá sentido o pueda funcionar, de momento este primer número ha sido toda la locura antropófaga que me esperaba.
October 29, 2021
I am not too sure. I want to like this title due to Red Hood, but undead heroes and restrictions on what they can and cannot do. It will be tough to have a PG rated zombie title. I will give the title 3 or 4 issues and see if I am still around.
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October 29, 2021Jason with a CROWBAR!
November 5, 2021
Feels like I've missed something here? It's just so random and so sudden, with no real build or backstory?
December 24, 2021
Jason Todd je členem týmu sestaveného ze zombie padlých záporáků a no, je to skvělý béčko se nebere vážně, má fajn načrtnutý děj a dobrou akci. Jsem zvědavý co bude příště 😀
March 24, 2022
I bet the person that suggested Jason had electrifying crowbars felt really smart
March 25, 2022
Interesting start to the series. I honestly came for Red Hood, but I’m staying for the interesting group of characters and the macabre twist on the Suicide Squad.
April 6, 2022
Fun start!
June 21, 2022
MR. BLOOM IS BACK!!! But he keeps disappearing! Come back Mr. Bloom! Come back Mr. Bloom! Come back!
June 27, 2025
jason comes back from the dead and forced to become the voice of reason
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