Suicide Squad #11

Deadshot falls to his death extravagantly.

Man. I can't stop laughing every time I think of a campy 60s Swamp Thing television show. I think the idea has ruined me for the day. Okay. Pull it together.

Last issue, Amanda Waller realized one of the members of the Suicide Squad was a traitor. In an earlier issue, a flashback scene occurred that showed an anonymous person being approached to infiltrate Task Force X and assassinate Amanda Waller. I'm fairly certain it has to be one of the original team but Adam Glass might pull a fast one and decide to make it Iceberg. I still think it should be Deadshot even though that's the most obvious. It really, really, really should be Deadshot.

Waller interrogates El Diablo trying to find out who slipped cyanide to the Basilisk agent last issue. At least that's what she's pretending to want to find out. She's just trying to scare everyone. And the best way to scare everyone is to shove them on a plane for another suicidal mission!

Apparently the new artist didn't get the memo that Harley's tits have become gigantic.

It seems really suspicious but Amanda Waller loaded this plane with five new Task Force X recruits. And since one of them pokes her neck nanite bomb and yells, "For Basilisk!", as the plane explodes, I'm pretty sure the Squad was set up by Waller. This is exactly the type of shit she'd pull when "the gang" start acting out of control!

Except Waller immediately speaks with some mysterious supervisor and tells him that Task Force X is done and they should scrap it. What the hell? Waller gives up that easily now? What the fuck is going on! Nothing is adding up in this issue! I think the entire thing is some kind of scam to get the traitor to blow his cover. It's possible Waller even suspects that mysterious supervisor she was speaking with as the man behind the mole.

El Diablo manages to absorb the fire from the explosion but they're still falling to the ocean in the front half of the destroyed airplane. Black Spider digs out some parachutes and they all begin bailing out of the plane to the ocean (or lake or sea or river) below.

How cute! And by cute, I mean both tiny Deadshot kicking tiny King Shark and Dr. Quinzel's concern for King Shark's safety. Where oh where has Harley gone?

Since Amanda Waller isn't exactly forthcoming with any kind of mission information what-so-ever ever, the team have no idea where they've crashed landed. And I think Deadshot got a concussion during the fall.

"Were got to figwere out were were at!"

King Shark knows where they are. He can taste that they fell into the Gulf of Mexico just off of the Yucatan Coast. I wonder what else he can tell by tasting the water? Can he tell if Harley is ovulating since she was in the water? Or which member of the team has hemorrhoids?

The Squad is greeted by some Mayan natives cut off from civilization for thousands of years. They're treated like grand guests but Deadshot is anxious to get back to the mission before Waller decides to blow the bombs in their necks. I'm not sure what mission he's going to go on since all they knew was that they were headed to a Basilisk Base to assassinate Regulus. Perhaps he just wants to rush off and find a phone so he can tell Waller and say, "We're all alive and please don't explode our heads we didn't blow the plane up on purpose it wasn't our fault if you have to kill anyone kill Black Spider and I know I screwed up (and screwed Harley too) but please don't kill me please please until I get a chance to kill you oops oh shit scratch that last part uh oh losing connection bzzt bzzt bzzzt gotta go!"
But nobody wants to go with Deadshot.

And he's right! They all end up drugged and captured! Ha ha!

Harley is adorable hanging upside down awaiting the human sacrifices.

Yeah, that's how it ends. King Shark and El Diablo are actually on the altar about to have their hearts cut out. Next issue, I'm pretty sure Iceberg is going to get his clock stabbed in the face.

Suicide Squad #11 Rating: No change. This was a really weird issue. Maybe Waller is just tired of directing Task Force X now that she has most of what she needs for her Samsara Project. Even Deadshot says he knows Waller and she won't give up looking for them just as the scene shifts to show Waller getting drunk and telling the person on the other end of the line that she's headed home. It looks like this will probably be a two issue story arc similar to the Teen Titans/Superboy crossover where they spend some time on a mysterious island before being rescued and never caring about the island again. But at least this island doesn't have dinosaurs on it. Also, I like this group of characters better. Plus, one of these guys might actually die! Although I guess, technically, Danny the Street died. Or at least turned into an Alley in Chinatown. Maybe that's where sentient streets go to die?