The Suicide Squad's Infamous Head Bombs Are Getting a Magical Upgrade
Warning: Spoilers forDC's Round Robin #2 ahead!
As the final round of voting commences for DC's 2022 Round Robin fan tournamentbegins, a 10-page preview for one of the finalists shows Amanda Waller in control of a monstrous Suicide Squad: Dark team. While in main continuity Waller often uses mechanical bombs surgically inserted in convicts heads as a a way to control Suicide Squad members, in Suicide Squad: Dark the bombs she uses are magical, and much more horrifying.
DC's second annual Round Robin involves a series of comics creators submitting unique pitches and concept art to DC Comics, and then allowing fans to vote on their favorites in a series of voting rounds, leading to one pitch being selected as the winner and published as a limited series. This year's Round Robin has led to a battle between Superboy: Man of Tomorrow and Suicide Squad: Dark, although recent news has shown that even the «losers» of the Round Robin may get a chance at being published, like the upcoming Blue Beetle: Graduation Day. Voting for the tournament ends on May 15.
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Suicide Squad: Dark — written by Zac Thompson with art by Garry Brown — follows a team of supernatural horrors under the control of Amanda Waller, operating on Earth-13 as they are tasked with wiping out this Earth's Justice League, the monstrous yet heroic League of Shadows. The team is handled by Frankenstein and includes Raven, Gorilla Grodd, Spore, Zatanna, Plasma-Man, and Sinestroare, with Vampire Batman as the field leader, controlling. This Suicide Squad will attempt "...to topple the supernatural world of sorcery and permanent twilight." As usual Amanda Waller's tactics are
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