“..I saw you and I thought.. if a man could fly… I could stay in college.”

After their battle with the Suicide Squad, the Justice League are now locked up by Amanda Waller. Meanwhile, Katana and Rick Flagg investigate an underground facility that is filled with dead soldiers. What will Katana and Flagg discover within this facility? Is Maxwell Lord connected to this massacre that went down in that location? What is Waller’s plans for the captured Justice League? And how will the Justice League escape?

It’s the third issue installment of this mini-crossover event and Joshua Williamson displays a good handle on the dynamics between members of the Suicide Squad and the Justice League. Although, it is a bit odd for Batman to be a bit too harsh on some of the criminals within the books such as Killer Croc (who he was pretty much cool with in Batman Eternal, I guess there was some stuff I may have missed out on). Regardless, the book has a good pace and feels like the way comic books used to be where characters teamed up against evil threats aside from having heroes tearing each other apart. Which in this case, the Suicide Squad are far from heroes. Interestingly enough, there are some interesting references and easter eggs such as the tribesmen that Maxwell Lord and his team have an interest in terms of interrogating information. Should you see these tribesmen, they may set off some “Monitor” aesthetics if you catch my drift.

Jesus Merino’s art is superbly much stronger here than it was in the current  Bryan Hitch Justice League series. While Jason Fabok illustrated issue 1, and Tony Daniel illustrated issue 2, Merino’s art helps to continue the narrative visuals flowing. Although, his art style is a more reasonable transition from Fabok’s. This isn’t saying that Daniel’s artwork was bad because Daniel is a great illustrator, it’s just that it was a bit jarring in terms of the art style since daniel is known for striking lines, while Fabok is known for crosshatches. Merino’s art style feels like a combination of the two prior artists in terms of his line work. Nonetheless, his artwork and panel layout is strong and does service to the story as it should. The rest of the team on this book in terms of Owen’s inks,  Sinclair on color duties with assistance from Skipper and Leigh’s lettering all continue to do a good job as they have done since the last two issues. Although this was an exposition issue, it still was a solid issue. Not as strong as the first issue but it still gets the reader’s interest. I’d give this issue a 7 out of 10.

By Anthony Andujar Jr.

Anthony Andujar Jr. is an NYC cartoonist and lover of comics and music. So much so that it led him to writing comic book reviews in between it all.