Amanda Waller's God-Tier Suicide Squad Don't Even Know They Work for Her
Warning: spoilers forDark Knights of Steel #6 ahead!
Everyone should fear the Suicide Squad's leader Amanda Waller in any reality she resides in, but her role in the medieval world of Dark Knights of Steel has confirmed that Waller is perhaps her most dangerous when she is not actually wielding power directly. As the right-hand advisor of Queen Lara Lor-Van, ruler of the powerful House of El, Waller has proved that she can do just as much damage as a silver-tongued whisperer.
The medieval world of Dark Knights of Steel is brutal and violent, casting iconic DC Comics characters in new roles that have forged unique and surprising alliances between them that might never happen in the Earth-0 continuity. After the horrifying murder of the King, Queen Lor-Van has taken over rule of the kingdom and has been forced to contend with the armies of both King Jefferson and Queen Hippolyta threatening her rule, and Amanda Waller has stood beside her throughout it all.
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Dark Knights of Steel #6 — written by Tom Taylor with art by Yasmine Putri, Arif Prianto, and Wes Abbott — sees the House of El at its most precarious moment yet, on the verge of war with multiple enemies, and one of their greatest warriors Bruce Wayne missing in action. One of Bruce's Robins, Dark Knights of Steel's version of Tim Drake, has been outed as a spy to the late King Jefferson's daughter by John Constantine, and fled back to the court of El to give news of the impending assault by the Kingdom of Storms and Amazonia's forces. After Queen Lor-Van asks for time alone to ponder what her kingdom should do, Amanda Waller does what she does best: uses her skills of Machiavellian
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