Suicide Squad #17 [Newsstand]

(Early July 2017)

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Suicide Squad / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script

Rob Williams

Pencils

Tony S. Daniel

Inks

Sandu Florea; LeBeau Underwood

Colors

Tomeu Morey

Letters

Pat Brosseau

Genre

superhero

Characters

Suicide Squad [Colonel Rick Flag; Katana [Tatsu Yamashiro]; Harley Quinn [Harleen Quinzel]; Enchantress [June Moone]; Deadshot [Floyd Lawton]; General Zod; Killer Croc [Waylon Jones]; Captain Boomerang [George "Digger" Harkness]]; Amanda Waller; Emelia Harcourt (death); Annihilation Brigade [Tunguska; Cosmonut; Tankograd]; unnamed Task Force X IT staff (deaths); Zimbabwe meta-human prison inmates; unknown Black Vault inhabitants

Synopsis

Controlled by a Kryptonite brain bomb, General Zod joins the Squad on a mission to Zimbabwe to track down the Annihilation Brigade. There they find a secret prison where the People have been experimenting on meta-humans to build their own Suicide Squad. Back at Belle Reve, Harcourt is revealed as an agent of the People and betrays Waller, but Waller of course was expecting this and had prepared accordingly. Harcourt is killed before she can reveal who killed Hack.

Reprints

• in Suicide Squad (DC, 2017 series) #4 - Earthlings on Fire (2017 [February 2018])
• in Suicide Squad Rebirth (Urban Comics, 2017 series) #10 (avril 2018)
• in Suicide Squad: The Rebirth Deluxe Edition (DC, 2017 series) #2 ([July] 2018)

Keywords

Belle Reve Penitentiary; Black Vault; Kryptonite; Zimbabwe