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The Katana portion continues to grate on me in large part because the character seems subdued and uninteresting. The flying energy could have easily come off as Dazzler level stupid, but they look good and more importantly believable. Though much of the Katana story takes place in a bunker, Neves’ pencils make the action feel event level big.

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The pencils by Diogenes Neves are good too, with some nice crosshatching on the opening full page splash to show tiny details in a closeup. I suppose that happens when cutting your opponent means cutting through light. Barr adds just enough violence at the end of Katana’s blade to make her villainous, but for the most part she’s a good guy through and through here. And that’s the thing, this climactic end is action-packed and in some ways feels cosmic while doing it. Frankly though, the best bits are when the Suicide Squad show up, as they make all this action fun–especially Harley who has a cool shaggy hair look. The Katana story has gotten all kinds of crazy with a rainbow entity flying around and plenty of Kobra to kill. Writer Brian Buccellato reminds us this character is brutal, but also has a goodness he can’t deny all in this issue alone. Deadshot must take out a pretender who’s practically dressed just like him and the bloody, action-packed end is a sight to see. The Deadshot story continues to be visually striking with pencils by Victor Bogdanovic and inks by Richard Friend that’ll make you go, “What who’s the artist?” The art is incredibly dark and moody, but also very capable at capturing intense violence and strong human emotion. Combined you have a comic that makes two characters who usually fight for page time shine through.įine, you have my attention. And for his part, Deadshot has had to deal with some very complicated family issues. For starters, Katana is getting into one complicated pickle dealing with Kobra and their army.

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As the fight on his ark heats up, they’ll all need to decide what is most important!Īside from the fact that these characters will be immortalized in the brains of moviegoers in a few short weeks this series has had its plus sides. Kobra put the fate of the Earth at risk-and now he wants Katana and the Squad to work beside him to clean up his mistakes. So what’s it about? The official DC synopsis reads: Listen to the latest episode of our weekly comics podcast!