{"id":3900,"date":"2022-04-11T07:54:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3900"},"modified":"2022-01-03T20:34:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T04:34:49","slug":"701-the-original-suicide-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/701-the-original-suicide-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"701 &#8211; The Original Suicide Squad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/195906-suicide-squad.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"438\" height=\"408\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/195906-suicide-squad.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/195906-suicide-squad.png 438w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/195906-suicide-squad-300x279.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>A panel from The Brave and the Bold #25, June 1959<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In The Brave and the Bold #25 (June 1959), the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Suicide_Squad#Silver_Age\">original Suicide Squad<\/a>. Task Force X, nicknamed the Suicide Squad for the crazy missions they take on, is a group of four specialists: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rick_Flag\">Col. Rick Flag Jr<\/a>, medical flight specialist Karin, physicist Jess Bright, and astronomer Dr. Evans. All of them had a traumatic experience of having to let someone go in their past missions, maybe that&#8217;s where the name comes from?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This first mission has them taking on a mysterious red wave of heat emanating from the ocean, which turns into a battle with a giant ice creature, which has them hi-jacking a rocket headed for the moon and leading the creature into where they finally deposit is in orbit around the sun. Whew! The gang is stuck in space now and that&#8217;s where the issue ends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Very little character development outside of Rick and Karin&#8217;s romance, but lots of flashbacks that establish how each member has to &#8220;carry on&#8221; for the people that died on their watch. It reminds me a lot of the Challengers. I give it a B+, let&#8217;s see where issue #2 lands us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Brave and the Bold #25 (June 1959), the original Suicide Squad. Task Force X, nicknamed the Suicide Squad for the crazy missions they take on, is a group of four specialists: Col. Rick Flag Jr, medical flight specialist Karin, physicist Jess Bright, and astronomer Dr. Evans. All of them had a traumatic experience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[613,14,460,627],"class_list":["post-3900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-613","tag-dc","tag-suicide-squad","tag-to-be-continued"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3900"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3904,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900\/revisions\/3904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}