So before you check out the individual adventures of the members of the cinematic Squad, check out these collections of Ostrander’s awesome work. In the pages of their Suicide Squad, Ostrander and company set the standard for para-military super villain action and created hard hitting tales that would inform DC Comics, TV, and now film for decades to come and along the way, the creators killed a crap ton of D-list villains. The writer, along with his sometimes co-writer and late wife Kim Yale and a team of artists came up with the idea of a team of villains conscripted by Amanda Waller and the US government to take on suicide missions in exchange for time shaved off their sentences. All the things you loved about the film version of the Squad? Yeah, that was Ostrander. Click the orange links to buy ’em on Amazon.īut before you delve into the individual members of the Squad, you must read writer John Ostrander’s Suicide Squad run from the ’80s and 90s.
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