If you are a fan of Spurrier, Campbell, Bellaire and Bidikar on other comics, you will want to give Suicide Squad: Blaze a try. If you're a fan of Suicide Squad, regardless of the era or the creative team, you will also want to give this one a try. In fact, every comic reader 17 and up with the stomach for a bit of dark humor amid the horror should read this book. Read Full Review

Black Label has the IT factor. It brings together the best creators and gives them the opportunity to tell a different and singular story that only benefits readers. Suicide Squad: Blaze is a perfect book. Its story is fresh and telling, the art is precise, chaotic and deep. Read Full Review

Readers will experience straightforward, graphic action that will no doubt captivate fans while leaving these new SUICIDE SQUAD recruits as new fan favorites. Yet even with the enticing, outermost superhero layer being so inviting, it's the sly, under-the-surface narrative plot beats that provide that extra wrinkle making this issue a must-buy. I highly recommend giving SUICIDE SQUAD: BLAZE #1 a good shot. Itll be well worth your time and money. Let me know what you think, have a great week, and God Bless! Read Full Review

Si Spurrier, Aaron Campbell, Jordie Bellaire, and Aditya Bidikar deliver the best Suicide Squad book in years inBlaze. The art alone is enough to drop jaws to the floor, but the story is sneakily brilliant in its own right! Read Full Review

Suicide Squad: Blaze #1 is a serious, brutal and deeply human take on the Squad that appeals to both superhero fans and detractors. Read Full Review

DC Comics' Suicide Squad: Blaze #1 is a no-holds-barred, brutal, brilliant issue. This creative team will disturb you and delight you in equal measure. You don't want to miss this raucous, wild new series " even if it has you reading it from between your fingers as you try and cover your eyes. Read Full Review

As a start, Suicide Squad: Blaze packs all the promise Squad readers could want, whether they're being diverted from HBO Max or longtime fans of the original series. Read Full Review

It's an effective start to a chiller that calls back to some classic Suicide Squad tales. Read Full Review

Suicide Squad: Blaze #1 brings us a new story that's open enough to go in any direction. It's unique looking enough to leave a lasting impression on any reader, and well-handled enough to do our favorite characters justice, even while calling back to other media. I'm eager to see how this new title handles its vast potential. Read Full Review

Suicide Squad: Blaze #1 is a comic that on paper should work for me but ended up a disappointment. I'm a huge fan of all the creatives involved here, but the end result did not work. The cynical edge could have worked to the narrative's benefit but instead just made for a dreary reading experience. The new characters boil down to cannon fodder for the actual Squad members and are not that interesting, and the art, while serviceable, can get a bit muddy. There's a lot of uncapitalized potential here that just makes for a "meh" comic. Hopefully this series will find its audience but it lacks the draw it could have had. Read Full Review

Suicide Squad: Blaze #1 sets up the possibility for a really intriguing series and does a lot to establish a solid premise. Its unlikable characters put a damper on a lot of that promise though. Read Full Review

While its not quite on the level of their earlier Hellblazer pairing, Spurrier and Campbell's Suicide Squad: Blaze #1 was still a lot of fun.

Spurrier spends a lot of time inside the head of a new character Michael Van Zandt, who mostly seems along for the ride at this point due to the acquisition of a power that's less than useless. Spurrier's knack for dialogue really shines through as Van Zandt narrates his understandable terror at the situation he finds himself in. The traditional members of the Squad, especially Harley, come of almost gleefully insane through through this average joe's lens, which brings a madcap energy to the whole affair.

Campbell's art and Bellaire's colors are appropriately suited for the story at hand and add a nice grittiness. I particularly liked nearly every sequence involving Waller, as Campbell did a nice job laying the action out. I'm looking forward to the rest of the story. more

Yeah, I didn't like this. I had some slightly decent expectations from it, I'm not usually a fan of Spurrier but I really liked that the Squad is getting so much attention these days. Still, the issue is chaotic and not in a good way, Suicide Squad stories can be chaotic in a good way, see Robbie Thompson's run as an example. This isn't that. And the "regular Joes being part of the Squad" has been done before, I think they did it some years ago during Rebirth and it was better than this. And there's a line here that is literally racist, "long before you happen to hit someone rich enough or white enough". As Superman said in Doomsday Clock "the demonization of any group of people is WRONG", apparently some people (a lot, actually) didn't get the memo. Speaking of Superman, I hate what Spurrier is doing to him, he is put in a very bad light here. And of course we have people wearing masks in a comic because we're masochists and we need to constantly remind people about the pandemic, fuck escapism! Yeah, all in all I can't say this was bad but it definitely wasn't good either. more

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Mingthemerciless - Feb 9, 2022

I was thinking about picking 5his up on the strength of the recent run.

Merlyn - Feb 9, 2022

I didn't like it, maybe it's your cup of tea, I don't know, mine wasn't.

Mingthemerciless - Feb 9, 2022

I ll skim it on the rack at my local comic shop. If it looks appealing I ll give it a shot.

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Got halfway through it and gave up. Too violent, vulgar and cynical to be worth my time. I miss the real Suicide Squad of the Ostrander era.