Although the concept is top notch the execution has been spotty and the readership has only intermittently shown up in meaningful numbers. (Before going further I should note that confusingly there was another team called the Suicide Squad that debuted in DC Comics in 1959 but they re more or less unrelated to the modern version of the team. Don t worry about them.) Their first monthly series ran from 1987 to 1992 and when it was resurrected in 2001 the new run didn t even last a year before getting canceled. Suicide Squad was relaunched in 2011 and it was immediately criticized for being sexist blithely violent and generally dull. DC rebooted the ailing series as New Suicide Squad this year and sales have been poor. Commentators have compared Suicide Squad to Guardians of the Galaxy in that both were largely unknown comics properties when their respective movies were announced. It s a faulty comparison The Guardians were just minor players whereas the Squad has a long history of franchise failure.
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