Suicide Squad #6

No. NO! Is that Light and Lime from Green Arrow joining the team? I hope just one of them dies.

Last issue, Harley Quinn started a giant riot in Belle Reve so that she could escape. Now Amanda Waller wants her back and she's sending out the Suicide Squad to track her down. Everyone is pretty sure she's headed for Gotham.

And that's where this comic begins! It looks like the current Squad is made up of The Shark, Deaadshot, Light and Lime, and a guy in a mask that I don't recognize. They're currently chasing Harley down a dark alley. They're all trying not to get beat up by Batman. Except maybe Harley.

It's always raining in Gotham so that the Batsignal has some clouds to reflect off of. By the way, what did Green Arrow charge you two with? Resisting Super Hero arrest? Or wearing the wrong clothes while dining in the Space Needle?

It turns out the guy in the mask is Savant. I assumed when he failed to make the team, Waller had him killed! I guess I shouldn't have made that assumption since Waller is supposed to be a good guy working for the government. They can get people killed on covert missions but I don't think they're allowed to kill them otherwise. I suppose Savant was allowed back on the Squad because everyone on the Squad keeps blowing their cover anyway. Just like they do in Blackhawks! Plus, a whole bunch of potential recruits were probably killed or maimed in the prison riot last issue.

Savant shoots Harley in the shoulder to slow her down while Deadshot was about to shoot her in the leg. Savant proclaims he's faster than Deadshot and Deadshot doesn't kill him. Not yet. I'm sure he'll prove his quickness later in this story line since everybody already thought Savant was dead anyway. And why is he called Savant? Is he that good with a gun?

The whole team follows Harley into a warehouse while Amanda frowns and moans and isn't happy about anything even though Flashpoint dropped 140 pounds and 15 years from her. She'd probably bitch even more if she'd stuck around to see what happened when they catch up to Harley instead of breaking communication to deal with a Stormwatch problem.

Eww! I was checking out that ass in the previous page!

Turns out this fake Harley managed to die just at the right time and place to spring Harley Quinn's trap!

What the hell? Harley has a cool gang of freaks?! I guess since the Joker's currently missing in action, his henchmen need something else to do.

The Suicide Squad gets to work tearing apart, shooting, stabbing, and blasting fake Harley Quinns while they wonder where the real Harley Quinn went. Come on, really? What kind of intel do they set the Squad up with? And this is Deadshot's home turf! None of them can guess Arkham?

This is why Harley needed to escape.

While Harley wanders about Arkham trying to find her answers to what happened to the Joker, she has a moment speaking with herself.

Harley: You can't go home again.
Body under the sheet: Mmph mmt mmph
Harley: Shhh, I'm monologuing.
Harley: Thomas Wolfe wrote that. The "home" thing, not the graffiti. Wolfe meant it was no longer a place, but a time.
Harley: But he was a tool. You can't go home again, but it's not like you can ever leave it behind.

Um. Yeah, Harley, you stupid git. That's the point of saying, "You can't go home again." Because people can't leave it behind and they continually keep trying to find that place over and over. So you're the fucking tool, you stupid dishrag.

Dr. Serrano tells Harley that the Joker had his face cut off and that the Joker's face is at Gotham Police Headquarters. And then Harley kills the Doctor. Or cuts her face off. It's a bit vague.

Meanwhile, back at the warehouse where the trap was sprung, Deadshot looks for a Harley like-a-look that hasn't been killed or eaten by King Shark. Deadshot and Savant exchange some words and it turns out that Savant was actually in on the interrogation in Squad #1. I'm not sure what his whole 'con' was except to confess and seem to be killed. How would that make the other Squad members break and confess about the Squad? So they can be dragged off and killed as well?

King Shark is trying to get a midget Harley to confess by threatening to eat him.

So Savant isn't dead. And Yo Yo isn't dead although I don't know how long he can live inside of King Shark. I imagine Mad Dog will turn up alive as well.

The last Harley fake they find alive is the two-headed one shown leading the pack in a previous panel. Deadshot shoots one of them in the head to get the other one to talk. The living head tells Deadshot that Joker was skinned alive and dead. Deadshot confirms this with Amanda who tells the Squad that the Joker's face is in Gotham Police Headquarters. So now Deadshot knows where Harley will end up.

Harley reminisces about her time counseling The Joker and the tenth session when she fell in love with him. Through bribing (or threatening?) orderlies, The Joker had learned that Harley's father was killed by a rich drunk driver with a fat pinky ring. Joker had this man killed and gave Harley the man's finger with the ring on it as a gift during their tenth session.

And then Harley allows the Gotham Police to capture her and bring her in to the building with the Joker's face. And now it's up to the Squad to go in after her and bring her back to Belle Reve before she can compromise Task Force X.

Suicide Squad Issue #6 Rating: No change in the ranks. Suicide Squad continues to be a solid comic book type of comic book. You know what that means! Don't make me explain myself! And they can't go up a rank when they've continually been lying to the reader all of this time! Every issue they proclaim someone won't survive. And it seemed like this was true! But now they're all turning up alive again! Although I like the idea that Yo Yo can somehow survive inside of King Shark because of his rubbery body stretching abilities. Or maybe it's his intense Buddhist meditation principles. Or something. Fun title and currently just right in the Rankings.