Some thoughts about Suicide Squad #2

Who will be the next one to fall in the Suicide Squad?

The team has managed to infiltrate the organization they have been hunting but now they have found one of its biggest secrets, some of them might not come out of this alive.

I swear to God this wasn't bad at the beginning.

Rob Williams offers a new chapter where he focuses a bit more on the dynamic between the members of the team as well as progressing his story and during the early pages this was actually kinda solid. The interaction between the characters seemed genuinely funny with interesting lines here and there and they were about to meet yet another intriguing member of the cast.

Then comes the bad. They discover the Phantom Zone inside of the organization which had General Zod on it and he immediately killed Captain Boomerang in a pretty anticlimactic way.

Why?

I mean, yeah, this is the Suicide Squad and in premise no member should be safe here but Digger had become such a staple of the team that one would think that he would have a more permanent role in the book, not killed only after a few issues. Sure, he had some decent moments before but they were just mostly focused on how much of a goofball he is.

Jim Lee's artwork here is the saving grace. He's pretty good at creating beautiful characters and action scenes, his style will most certainly get a lot of readers.

Oh, and there's a second story actually focusing on Digger... which is mostly about how much of a buffoon he is by inventing a little story to Amanda Waller about how cool he is. I have said this before, if you're going to kill a character don't just focus on him AFTER you killed him. Take your time with him/her and actually develope a connection to the readers to make them feel something. However, if you really want to follow the other route AT LEAST SHOW SOME COMPELLING ASPECTS ABOUT THE CHARACTER! Digger pretty much appears here as an Australian caricature.

Ivan Reis handles the artwork and his art is the highlight just as in the main section. Good looking characters all-around.

This was such a letdown. Say whatever you want about Identity Crisis but the last time that Digger was killed, Brian Meltzer actually made an effort to make a sympathetic and understandable character. Here, he just went out with a whimper.