This edition features detailed drawings and brilliant colors in a modern comic style. I found the action scenes to be very engaging and interesting. This is a good looking and visually pleasing issue. Read Full Review

Suicide Squad #5 is a fantastic entry in a series that's been entertaining the entire time. It almost stands on its own and can likely be picked up by new readers with few issues. What's better for long-time readers is that there's some major moments when it comes to the team's dynamics that'll have major implications going forward. At the end though, it left me wanting more Bloodsport. Read Full Review

The characters we know and love are shown to be on uneven ground after the last issue's events. Suicide Squad #5 leaves us wondering why this new protagonist between worlds has shown up, and what Waller can be planning. With story beats this open, and action artwork this dramatic, the title could go just about anywhere. Read Full Review

This issue, while it still may be corporate-mandated crossover stuff, actually feels like a natural branch to the story and, more importantly, feels like the writer cared about what happened here. Bloodsport is insanely good as a protagonist, and I hope he sticks around after this little arc. Hell, I hope he gets his own series. I'd buy every issue twice over. Read Full Review

Bloodsport's less than effective run-in with Ultraman suggests that the Squad's next mission will pit them against the Crime Syndicate (where they might not match up all that well). It's an interesting idea for a story, but unless Waller has some bigger guns hidden in her closet I don't know that the fight will last very long (but that's a problem for the next issue). Read Full Review

An excellent introduction of Bloodsport to the title, Suicide Squad #5, is wonderfully illustrated. Robbie Thompson's use of field reports is a creative delivery method for DuBois' internal monologue. Although Bloodsport's narration does a great job introducing the character and his new movie-accurate helmet to the reader, it, unfortunately, hurts the story by telling rather than showing. However, Dexter Soy, Eduardo Pansica, Julio Ferreira, and Joe Prado's artwork overcome these narrative shortcomings by expertly crafting this book's dynamic action sequences. Read Full Review

Aside from the story, I liked learning a bit about Bloodsport as he's going to be a major character in the new Suicide Squad movie. I'm not ashamed to say I'd never heard of him before seeing the trailer, but now I can go in with a base level of knowledge. It definitely seemed like Thompson made an effort to give us a little backstory to help bring the character out of obscurity. I'm also pretty sure his entire existence in this book is informed by the fact that he's about to be in a movie. I know how capitalism works.  Read Full Review

Yeah, we're getting the obligatory movie tie-in characters with Bloodsport taking center stage this issue but thankfully his elements are fun and let us know who the character is in an interesting way while giving us a really cool scenario to explore him in, I just wish that this book felt like the Suicide Squad was the most important element to its own series because like the last issue with Red X, it feels like we're going to sidestep again to get another character over at the expense of the characters that I love here in the upcoming issues. Read Full Review

Overall, this isn't too bad at all and it is at the very least entertaining. Read Full Review

If you want to see what Bloodsport can do, this is a win, but the overall narrative and cast of zany characters don't seem to move forward much by issue's end. Read Full Review

While not being particularly spectacular, the introduction of Bloodsport as a future sort of foil for Peacemaker can be interesting. Bloodsport's love for war blends pretty well with Peacemaker's violent desire for whatever his concept is of peace. The writing is pretty tight even if the plot itself seems very run-of-the-mill, and the artwork is wonderful in its consistency and detail. Read Full Review

A solid introduction for Bloodsport but I missed the main team this issue. Also kinda annoyed they're having another crossover this early in the series (sending Peacemaker over to The Swamp Thing comic). This is mostly a set-up issue for what will probably be a more interesting part two.

Free this issue of the cruse with Teen Titans Academy became interesting. impossible to escape from Amanda's clutches

The more I think about it the grade should be lower but, I did really have a good time reading this. It was Bloodsport' story but did have some plot points its working on as well. Its not a game changer but entertaining.

I honestly like Suicide Squad surprisingly more than Teen Titans run. It's at least more creative and has the Suicide Squad try to take down Teen Titans and now Crime Syndicate. The art is good and I'm excited to see what happens next.

This has been a curious book so far. The art has overall been good, particularly most of the covers. This issue in particular was a positive step in the right direction, but consistency so far has not been the watchword of this book. I am missing the team dynamic I come to this book for (even a dysfunctional team has a dynamic), so suddenly seeing most of the squad benched for an issue that centers on Bloodsport (I get it, movie coming out, need some unit shifters out there, etc.) was a jarring shift.

However with that said, I enjoyed this issue and the quick work it does to get the reader a bit more invested in Bloodsport, distancing ourselves from the weird stinkbomb that was the Red X issue. I'm a huge sucker for alternate Earth /evil dimension stories, and have been following the Crime Syndicate mini, so I enjoyed the proposed crossover here. I'd say this book still has my attention for now, but it better be going somewhere soon. more

I figured this series was going to get better when I read Dexter's name I'm like the artist. Hell, I love that man he does a wonderful job. This number took a bit of strength in the story.

Something about Dexter Soy's art... maybe it just isn't for me.

This premise of this title is strange as hell and I've never seen anything like it before. Two part story arcs that crossover with a concurrent event in the DCU: A-Day, Titans Academy, Crime Syndicate, and now Swamp Thing? What tf is Waller doing? If this ends up building up to a larger agenda I will be both impressed & enthralled to say the least.

It has improved a bit, despite the crossing it usually has with the disastrous Teen Titan, the art of Jason Todd's cartoonist, Dexter I am is beautiful lifting this series a lot.

For me this issue felt kind of dull compared to last months issue which set up a nice cliffhanger at the end. I wasn't expecting a new character to pop up, but the last few pages of this books is what made me decide to give issue 6 a chance. My main grip with this issue was that half of it was all narration, which I am not a fan of. I think it's a lazy way to write, and is only necessary when it is short and to the point. The art with this book is still amazing, and the writing of previous books has kept me entertained. The action was lacking but what action there was was pretty entertaining. I like the set up at the end so hopefully it picks up more from here on out.

Kind of a pointless book. Just generic movie synergy without any of the charm or charisma.

" I guess the capes hre are the villains. "
- BLOODSPORT