#Squadapalooza

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In case you’re looking for figurines from The Suicide Squad film, you can get a Digger keychain and a Thinker Mystery Mini.  Plus a bunch of other adorable figures....Piper fans might like Ratcatcher’s ratties!

I hope there’ll be a Mystery Mini of Digger, but it’s not clear if there’ll be another wave or if this is all of them.

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Tagged

tagged by my wifey @i-cry-kpop A - age: 20
B - biggest fear: failure 
C - current time: 11:38
D - drink you last had: water
E - every day starts with: me checking tumblr in my bed
F - favourite song: my fav songs change regularly but I have a special fondness for love me right by exo G - ghosts, are they real?: nope
H - home town: NYC
I - in love with: SHINee
J - jealous of: @i-cry-kpop for going to Korea but also not really since I got the GD concert 😘K - killed someone: um not last time I checked
L - last time you cried: after my orgo final while I was driving home
M - middle name: Beneé
N - number of siblings: 1
O - one wish: to be successful and happy
P - person you last called/texted: @i-cry-kpop
Q - question you’re always asked: I can’t think of anything for this one🤷🏼‍♀️
R - reason to smile: Finishing my finals, summer, squadapalooza with @i-cry-kpop, SHINee, exo’s impending comeback, GD’s concert, there’s literally so much
S - song last sang: Symptoms by Shinee 
T - time you woke up: 6:30 AM 😭
U - underwear colour: black
V - vacation destination: NYC to see my friends as a realistic option and Japan as a dream
W - worst habit: biting my nails X - x rays you’ve had: my leg, my back (repeatedly), teeth
Y - your favorite foods: Oreos forever and always, coconut ice cream, chicken, steak 
Z - zodiac sign: Aquarius I’ll tag @shineecstasy, @choitaemins, @jong-fetti, @real-kim-rachel, @vixxtastic90, @flower-taemin, @keybummietomyheart but if you don’t want to do it you don’t have to.

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Spoilers for comics in August!

These are part of the official solicitations for that month, which you can see in full at CBR.  It’s a month heavy on Suicide Squad reprints and variant covers, as the movie is out in early August.  But the Mick story continues in the Flash book.

THE FLASH #773 story by JEREMY ADAMS art by WILL CONRAD cover by BRANDON PETERSON ON SALE 8/17/21 $3.99 US | 32 PAGES | FC | DC card stock variant by JORGE CORONA US $4.99 Suicide Squad Movie card stock variant by ALAN QUAH US $4.99 On the loose and bent on destruction, Heatwave's return couldn't come at a worse time for Wally West. Now that the onetime Kid Flash has retaken the mantle of the Fastest Man Alive, he's also taken a new job at Mr. Terrific's Holt Industries. But all of that gets put on the back burner, when the Flash must outrace the flames of one of his greatest foes and figure out why the once-reformed rogue has gone bad again.

Please write ‘Heat Wave’ correctly, DC.  Anyway, it seems that Mick really has gone bad for some reason; I was hoping last month that the covers/solicits were misleading.

I’m not sure who the fiery guy is on the Swamp Thing cover, but he certainly bears a resemblance to Mick (and if it’s him, implies that Mick joins Suicide Squad).  So I’ll post it here just in case.

THE SWAMP THING #6 story by RAM V art by MIKE PERKINS cover by MIKE PERKINS ON SALE 8/3/21 $3.99 US | 32 PAGES | FC | DC 6 of 10 card stock variant by FRANCESCO MATTINA $4.99 US With Prescot’s bio-agent set off in the Kaziranga wetlands, the Green summons Levi back to the land of his making. With Levi unable to access his powers as Swamp Thing, he finds himself trapped in the dense forest and stalked by a group tasked with retrieving his alter ego at all costs. Will he recover his powers before he is hunted down by the Suicide Squad?

Putting the Suicide Squad stuff behind a cut because it gets pretty long -- and not all of it’s included here.  I don’t know if Digger will appear in Suicide Squad: Get Joker!, but included it just in case.  Most of it is TPBs and collected editions, though the Get Joker! series is a new story.

SUICIDE SQUAD: GET JOKER! #2 story by BRIAN AZZARELLO art by ALEX MALEEV & MATT HOLLINGSWORTH cover by ALEX MALEEV ON SALE 9/7/21 $6.99 US | 48 PAGES | FC | DC card stock variant cover by JORGE FORNES Black Label | Prestige Plus | 8 1/2" x 10 7/8" 17+ After turning the tables on the Suicide Squad, The Joker gained control of the device that could detonate the bomb implanted in each of the team members’ heads. Now forced to do The Joker’s bidding, Red Hood, Harley, and the rest of Task Force X find themselves hunted by a newly formed Squad with a single mission: kill the previous Squad and take over hunting The Joker.

SUICIDE SQUAD CASE FILES 1 written by GERRY CONWAY art by JOHN BYRNE On sale 7/20/21 $19.99 US | 216 pages | 6 5/8" x 10 3/16"| Softcover ISBN: 978-1-77951-075-4 Discover the legacy of the film's eclectic villains in this collection of key stories from DC history! James Gunn's The Suicide Squad film gathers the weirdest and wildest cast of characters in superhero movie history—from Squad veterans like Harley Quinn and Captain Boomerang to the downright bizarre King Shark and Polka-Dot Man. But every character starts somewhere! Find out exactly where in The Suicide Squad Case Files 1, a new collection featuring debut and key appearances of Bloodsport, Mongal, Polka-Dot Man, King Shark, Weasel, the Thinker, and Amanda Waller herself, the government agent behind Task Force X.

SUICIDE SQUAD CASE FILES 2 written by JOHN OSTRANDER art by LUKE MCDONNELL On sale 7/27/21 $19.99 US | 224 pages | 6 5/8" x 10 3/16"| Softcover | ISBN: 978-1-77951-156-0 More legacy and origins of the Suicide Squad's eclectic characters in this collection of key stories in anticipation of James Gunn's film, The Suicide Squad! The Suicide Squad Case Files 2 collection includes debut and key appearances of Harley Quinn, Captain Boomerang, Rick Flag, the Ratcatcher, Savant, the Javelin, Blackguard, and more.

HARLEY QUINN'S GREATEST HITS written by VARIOUS art by VARIOUS Available now! $9.99 US | 168 pages | 6 5/8" x 10 3/16"| Softcover | ISBN: 978-1-4012-7008-7 Get ready for this summer's most anticipated movie, The Suicide Squad, with the comics that feature fan-favorite character Harley Quinn! Harley Quinn's Greatest Hits collects eight of her best stories from writers and artists including Paul Dini, Bruce Timm, Jim Lee, Jeph Loeb, Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti, Scott Snyder, and more.

SUICIDE SQUAD: TRIAL BY FIRE written by JOHN OSTRANDER art by LUKE MCDONNELL AND OTHERS On sale 7/27/2021 $19.99 US | 232 pages| FC|DC ISBN: 978-1-77951-444-8 The classic story that inspired the feature film! Offered again with a new cover! Faced with a rising tide of meta-human crime and terror, Amanda Waller, the hard-headed director of a secret government program designed to neutralize super-powered threats called Task Force X sold the President on her vision: a covert action team composed of incarcerated super-villains who earned time off their sentences for every mission they completed. Deniable, disposable, and deployable to any spot on Earth, this Suicide Squad would be the perfect weapon of last resort—as long as they could be kept under control. Crafted by acclaimed creators John Ostrander and Luke McDonnell, this volume collects the first eight issues of the team's legendary 1980s title as well as their updated history from Secret Origins #14.

SUICIDE SQUAD: THEIR GREATEST SHOTS written by VARIOUS art by VARIOUS On sale 7/13/21 $12.99 US | 200 pages | 6 5/8" x 10 3/16"| Softcover | ISBN: 978-1-77951-073-0 The ultimate graphic novel companion to the high-octane, highly anticipated Suicide Squad movie coming in 2021! Featuring everyone's favorite DC antiheroes—from Harley Quinn to Captain Boomerang—this collection is sure to thrill any fan seeking more high-stakes black ops missions where no one is safe! Ranging from classic adventures by John Ostrander to contemporary takes with art by Jim Lee, all the comics heavy hitters who've shaped the Squad are featured in this collection!

SUICIDE SQUAD VOL. 1: THE BLACK VAULT written by ROB WILLIAMS art by JIM LEE AND PHILIP TAN Available now! $16.99 US | 160 pages | 6 5/8" x 10 3/16"| Softcover | ISBN: 978-1-4012-6981-4 The acclaimed story that helped launch DC Universe Rebirth! Harley Quinn. Deadshot. Killer Croc. Enchantress. Captain Boomerang. Katana. They're dangerous. They're deadly. They're deeply unstable. Their latest mission should be easy enough: recover a powerful cosmic weapon called the Black Vault from enemy hands. The Suicide Squad always gets the job done (mostly). But this time, when the weapon's dark influence spreads and the team is driven to madness and mayhem (more than usual), there's only one person sane enough to save the Squad from destruction…the Clown Princess of Crime herself, Harley Quinn! 

SUICIDE SQUAD: BAD BLOOD written by TOM TAYLOR art by BRUNO REDONDO Available now! $29.99 US | 288 pages | 6 5/8" x 10 3/16"| Hardcover | ISBN: 978-1-77950-395-4 Acclaimed writer Tom Taylor reunites with celebrated Injustice collaborators Bruno Redondo and Daniel Sampere on this GLAAD Media Award–nominated collection When the Suicide Squad is assigned to neutralize a group of international super-terrorists known as the Revolutionaries, the last thing they expect is for the survivors to join the team! Who can Squad veterans Harley Quinn and Deadshot trust when their new teammates are the very people they were sent to kill? This crew could survive the mission, but they might not survive each other—so don't get attached.

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Turns out there is a Digger Pop from The Suicide Squad, but he’s a Walmart exclusive.  Nice to see he’s still got the duct tape on his boot.

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Major spoilers for The Suicide Squad!

(You won't want to read this if you're planning to see the film, it spoils a lot)

So, as the spoilers have been saying for months, Digger dies at the beginning of the movie.  I accidentally heard that months ago and was hoping it wasn't true, but it is.  He does get some good moments though, and we see how dangerous he and his boomerangs are when he slices the top of a guy's head off; it is a very graphic and gory movie.  He dies with a grin on his face, but it's tough to tell whether it's an amused or distressed one.  

The Thinker isn't really like either of the pre-Flashpoint Thinkers we've known, and he's even got a different name, Gaius Grieves.  He's based on the New 52 Thinker, who I'd always assumed was Clifford DeVoe with a different look (the things stuck in his head), but maybe it wasn't.  At any rate, this Thinker is smart and completely amoral, but not really genius-level smart and doesn't have any psi powers from his tech.  He's just an asshole who's studied/tortured Starro for thirty years and killed tons of innocent people in the process.  

And weirdly, Double Down has a flashback cameo with Calendar Man, as they bully poor Polka Dot Man in prison.  So that means Double Down has made it to the big screen before Len and most of the major Rogues!

The only survivors of the serving Squad members are Bloodsport, Ratcatcher II, Harley, King Shark, Weasel, and Peacemaker.  The latter two are thought dead but manage to pull through.  I was hoping Polka Dot Man would live, but he doesn't.  However, Bloodsport and Ratcatcher are great and I'm glad they made it, as did the pet rat Sebastian.  This movie does not shy away from the brutality of the Suicide Squad concept and it's honestly tough to watch, but as much as I personally dislike gore I do think it's important to not sanitize what happens when a bunch of villains are set loose on dirty missions and treated as expendable.  That said, sensitive viewers (which I'm amongst, to tell the truth) may not want to watch this, especially because some of the deaths are done for humour.  Some are not, for example Starro's victims, which is portrayed as horrifying as it should be.

So I enjoyed the movie, but would rather have had less gore and I wish Digger and Polka Dot Man had survived.  It would have been nice to see more of the first group who died at the beginning to see them in action and how they interacted with each other, but perhaps that might have detracted from the coldness of the premise: that the powers that be don't give a shit about them and it doesn't matter who they are.

Here's Double Down and Calendar Man, by the way.

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https://dcextendeduniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Mallory_Ryan

So George had a Girlfriend when he was a teen and there is a comic but I can't seem to find it Secret Files of the Suicide Squad 2016 Fabian Nicieza is the artist.

Hmmm, I hadn't heard of this, but I can't find it either and it seems like it's somewhat rare. I'm guessing Nicieza is the writer, not the artist (he's an old school X-books writer), and it's probably based on movie Digger since it was bundled/branded with the first film. Very intriguing, and thanks for sending along the tip! Does anyone have this book?

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Spoilers for The Suicide Squad film!

This is the new trailer which ‘leaked’, but probably deliberately so.  Digger actually gets a line.

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I saw The Suicide Squad and loved it! I can see why someone who's put off by the gory stuff would be uncomfortable, though. And of course I went "NOOO 😭😭😭" in the first 5 minutes ;___; Still, I really really liked the movie, more than I did the first one! (but man, I would have LOVED for our favourite trash idiot to be a part of it!)

Spoilers for The Suicide Squad movie in this post!

Glad you enjoyed it! I thought it was great, although was taken aback by the blood and violence...not as badly as I would have been though if completely surprised, since I’d heard warnings about a lot of gore about a week earlier, and had long heard spoilers about lots of Squad deaths. People were spamming the latter all over the internet, sadly.

I'm one of the few people on the planet who genuinely enjoyed the first Suicide Squad movie, but this one was objectively better and I'm glad Gunn got a chance to tackle it. It sure would have been nice to see more of how he'd handle our boy, however!

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Spoilers for The Suicide Squad movie!

New Squad movie poster.  That’s the Thinker at left, with the things sticking out of his head.

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Spoilers for The Suicide Squad movie in this post!

belphegor1982 said: Oh boy *yes*! Especially since what little we see of his and Harley’s interaction is really sweet?? I would have LOVED more of them being buds, tbh. (even if I’m sorta kinda glad he didn’t get to be gross with Cleo, because, y'know. That’s how he is characterised sometimes :S)

Yeah, that was really nice, and I like the idea of them being pals because they've worked together and figured they'd probably be doing so again in the future ;_;  It seems like the Thinker took the role of gross creep in the movie, so maybe Gunn's Digger would have been toned down if he'd done more...though obviously we'll never know.

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purplecyborgnewt said: Ave eobutt (and other sculpted eoparts, I guess), those who about to go broke te salutant…

Ha, this is perfect :D

belphegor1982 said: I’ll keep it in my drafts until I see the film, I don’t want to get too spoiled, it looks a lot of fun!

Good idea!  Hope you enjoy the movie!! 

Minor spoilers for The Suicide Squad after this point!

meinarch said: I pointed at my screen when I saw Jeremy! It was such a pleasant surprise. :D

Yeah, I cheered "Calendar Man!" and was focused on him being a funny jerk, then the camera panned away and I said "wait, I think that was Double Down!!"

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Spoilers for the upcoming Suicide Squad movie!

Some official promo art.

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Spoilers for The Suicide Squad movie!

A new still shown in Empire magazine.

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Spoilers for the upcoming Suicide Squad movie!

Not a lot of Digger in this clip, but he is here in his new look.  And it was officially confirmed at DC Fandome that Peter Capaldi is playing the Thinker in the film.

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By Yusuf Idris and Rifans 22.

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frankashazam replied to your link post: Boomerang effects looked cool!

They really do, and the movie’s still early in production!  So jazzed for it :)