Red Hood's New Team Is Ripping Off Jurassic Park For the Worst Reason
Warning! Spoilers ahead for Task Force Z #6
While the concept of DC's Suicide Squad is pretty dark, Red Hood's new team has made it even worse and far more disturbing by ripping off Jurassic Park. In the pages of Task Force Z, Jason Todd has found himself leading a team of supervillains for the government. While that sounds like pretty standard Task Force X fare, the «Z» comes in thanks to the supervillains having been recently deceased and now resurrected as zombies. While the Squad's director Amanda Waller is not directly in charge of the undead team, she does point out in the latest issue that it's not a very original idea.
Operating as a probationary government team as a secret extension of Amanda Waller's Task Force X, Task Force Z was actually an idea motivated by the villain known as Mr. Bloom working behind the scenes for a larger and yet-to-be-revealed endgame. Motivating a corrupt senator to hire a reformed Two-Face to run the program, the new Task Force Z #6 from Matthew Rosenberg and Jack Herbert reveals how the new team was pitched to Waller months before Harvey Dent recruited Red Hood to lead the team of zombies against his will.
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Task Force Z uses pills filled with resin from the supernatural Lazarus Pits to bring back the dead. However, the program can control the dosage so the resurrections are only partial, thereby turning subjects into zombies. As such, it's a much darker and far more disturbing means of manipulating supervillains than simply embedding bombs into the necks of living DC foes. Amanda Waller is naturally intrigued, though she does counter that the idea isn't as revolutionary as Two-Face makes it out to be in this new
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