Some thoughts about Suicide Squad #1

What is the new mission of the Suicide Squad?

Amanda Waller is tired of losing and now she's decided to recruit the most powerful criminals in the world but not all of them are actually villains.

This is the following of the Future State: Suicide Squad story and it pretty much works as a prologue to that book, setting-up that possible future and all the events that unfold before that and it actually left something very clear:

I really don't like Robbie Thompson's writing.

This was pretty obvious because of his Teen Titans work but at the very least the last chapter of his Future State book showed some glances of potential but potential means nothing if the execution is simply not there and that's what happens here. First of all, the initial conflict between Amanda Waller and Rick Flag is way too quick and abrupt, it seems like Thompson just wants the story to progress as fast as possible without creating a proper conversation and characterization between the two staples of the Suicide Squad, it reminds me a lot about how unnaturally things escalated during Thompson's Teen Titans.

The dialogue doesn't help either since it's pretty by the numbers and really fails at providing a proper explanation for this new course of action aside from Waller wanting to make the Suicide Squad more proactive... which already was basically so this is pretty redundant and makes no sense. For God's sake, even after so many failures, the Suicide Squad writers just can't deliver a proper direction for the book.

The plot progresses at a pretty frenetic pace for the already mentioned issues and it doesn't even end in an interesting manner aside from the team wanting Talon (not even the good one) on their team.

Eduardo Pansica handles the art and is solid with expressive characters and a kinda somber style.

Aside from that, not expecting anything from the future and this is a shame.