Warning: Spoilers for DC's Round Robin #2 ahead!
As the final round of voting commences for Suicide Squad: Dark team. While in main continuity Waller often uses mechanical bombs surgically inserted in convicts heads as a a way to control Suicide Squad , in Suicide Squad: Dark the bombs she uses are magical, and much more horrifying.
DC's second annual Round Robin involves a series of comics creators submitting unique pitches and concept art to DC Comics, and then allowing fans to vote on their favorites in a series of voting rounds, leading to one pitch being selected as the winner and published as a limited series. This year's Round Robin has led to a battle between Superboy: Man of Tomorrow and Suicide Squad: Dark, although recent news has shown that even the "losers" of the Round Robin may get a chance at being published, like the Blue Beetle: Graduation Day. Voting for the tournament ends on May 15.
Suicide Squad: Dark - written by Zac Thompson with art by Garry Brown - follows a team of supernatural horrors under the control of Amanda Waller, operating on Earth-13 as they are tasked with wiping out this Earth's Justice League, the monstrous yet heroic League of Shadows. The team is handled by Frankenstein and includes Raven, Gorilla Grodd, Spore, Zatanna, Plasma-Man, and Sinestroare, with Vampire Batman as the field leader, controlling. This Suicide Squad will attempt "...to topple the supernatural world of sorcery and permanent twilight." As usual Amanda Waller's tactics are unconventional, unethical, and shrouded in mystery. Additionally, this terrifying Task Force has a benefactor only known as "Milton," whose identity will apparently be a key secret throughout the series. The preview, available on the DC Infinite app, opens with Vampire Batman, Spore, and Matter-Eater Lad attempting to capture Swamp-Thing, before Swamp-Thing brutally rips Matter-Eater Lads skeleton right out of his body, in a move so gruesome that it is blocked from readers' view with an editor's note stating that to see the full gory scene fans will need to vote for the series in the election!
To match Amanda Waller has managed to make the basic premise of the Suicide Squad even more horrifying, not because the team she has collected are monsters, but because the way she would take them out is so much worse than a simple head bomb!
Fans of Justice League Dark, DCeased, or Task Force Z will surely get a kick out of Suicide Squad: Dark, and may want to vote for it, a series that follows Amanda Waller and her new Task Force in an exciting and terrifying "...speculative horror story about dark Multiversal conspiracy."
Make sure to check out DC's Round Robin #2, available on the DC Infinite app now!
