DC’s Reverse ‘Suicide Squad’ Can Cause More Damage Than Waller’s Rogues
Warning: Spoilers for Superman: Son of Kal-El #11 ahead!
The Suicide Squad may be DC Comics' signature group of ragtag villains reluctantly fighting for good, but Amanda Waller's crew have nothing on the young group of heroes waging war with Superman under Lex Luthor's control, The Revolutionaries.
The son of Kal-El, Jon Kent, has found himself in a tight spot as of late. His new boyfriend Jay Nakamura has a complicated past tied to the dangerous new super group, The Revolutionaries. A team seen by some as terrorists and others as relentless freedom fighters, The Revolutionaries are a group of anti-heroes responsible for getting refugees safely out of Gamorra, including Jay, after being experimented on by Gamorran president, Henry Bendix. Recently, though, they have been at the center of some major calamities, including a leviathan attack that nearly sunk Metropolis, which was later blamed on Superman. Nakamura's sympathy for the group even brought Batman out of the shadows, with him warning Jon to keep Jay at a distance. The true force behind their destruction, however, is much more nefarious than Superman can imagine.
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In Superman: Son of Kal-El #11, by Tom Taylor and Cian Tormey, Jon discovers that Inferno, along with the rest of The Revolutionaries, has a bomb implanted in his brain, courtesy of President Bendix. Like the bombs implanted in the necks of Suicide Squad members, they can be remotely detonated at any time, but have an additional sadistic feature: the bombs also allow Bendix to take complete control of them, making them his personal, super-powered weapons. While Superman was able to remove the device from Inferno's head (with
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