Before the Suicide Squad sets their sights on the corrupted Justice League in the upcoming videogame Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, join us for this thrilling prequel and witness them kill Arkham Asylum! Amanda Waller has taken control of the recently rebuilt Arkham, and her brutal tactics and merciless methods have led to the most secure asylum Gotham has ever known. But when the cell doors open, and the inmates are left in a free-for-all deathmatch, Waller's true intentions reveal themselves: identify the strongest, smartest, and most brutal to serve her on Task Force X. Each print issue includes a redeemable code for a bonus digit more
It's all setup, for sure, but it also seems like Layman is elevating the material in a compelling way. Read Full Review
My final thoughts are rather simple for Suicide Squad: Kill Arkham Asylum #1. If you're a fan of the Arkham Games, then pick this series up to see where it goes. However, be forewarned that nothing really transpires this month. Read Full Review
Suicide Squad: Kill Arkham Asylum #1 does an excellent job of capturing elements from the games into a comic book medium. Read Full Review
Honestly, Suicide Squad: Kill Arkham Asylum #1 delivers a solid start to the prequel series. Layman gives us enough of a backstory without bogging us down with the intricate details. We get to know everything we need to, and the issue ends on a story beat that will make you want to keep reading. Read Full Review
In a story that revels in human rights violations, random decapitations, and just plain old blood-thirst, there are multiple editor's notes advising you to play an entire video game for context, which was my breaking point. Read Full Review
For players of Kill The Justice League, this first issue isn't necessary to pick up before playing. Apart from a few new bits of information, it provides no satisfying connection with the Rocksteady Arkham universe and an even less satisfying self-contained story. However, the look and humor of the book is decent. While overloaded with exposition that has to use smaller font to fit within the word bubbles, the rough inks give the illustrations a passable but gritty punk look. Unfortunately, the book is unsubtle, ugly, wordy, and frankly ridiculous. Ultimately, skip it if you have to, but pick it up if you feel the need. Read Full Review
It may be obvious why Kill Arkham Asylum is being produced, but it's unclear who might actually enjoy a story that lacks all of the merits that made Rocksteady's DC-related games so popular to begin with. Read Full Review
Fantastic book! Fantastic writing! Fantastic Art!
Layman has once again hit it out of the ballpark!
OMG! John Layman is SO amazing. He's, like, some sort of comic book writing GOD!!!!!
even for batman's standard's some of his lines are painful
This a nothing issue. For a first issue nothing here happens to get you excited to read the next one. Yeah, arkham cells are open, so what? this is just another day there, we're talking about Arkham after all. Feels weird how Batman is portrayed here... like, now that his identity is public there is no way he would be able to operate like that, he would be enemy of the police again, Arkham Knight's ending was about that, how now he can't keep being Batman like he was before. About the characters, not much to talk about it so far. But i must say, not a fan of what they did to Deadshot. This "oh, the other one was a imposter" just makes zero sense and makes the universe more convoluted. Think about it, Batman fought the imposter about 3 times more
Worse than a video game script.
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