Andy Lanning

Suicide Squad: The New 52 Omnibus collects the violent, mission-driven Task Force X run built around Harley Quinn, Deadshot, King Shark and Amanda Waller. Across 856 pages, the book follows disposable villains sent into impossible operations where survival is part reward and part manipulation. This is not a clean heroic team book: its appeal is pressure, mistrust and the way the New 52 turns DC criminals into weapons for the state. Adam Glass, Andy Lanning and Dan Abnett keep the squad unstable, messy and dangerous, which is exactly why the book should sit under Suicide Squad as a team entity rather than under any single member.