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A preview for DC Black Label’s Peacemaker: Disturbing the Peace by Garth Ennis and Garry Brown delves into the antihero’s tragic backstory.
While Peacemaker stars in his own popular and highly acclaimed HBO Max original series, the comic book iteration of the gun-toting antihero has his tragic origin story explored in a new one-shot.
Writer Garth Ennis and artist Garry Brown are teaming up for the prestige-format one-shot Peacemaker: Disturbing the Peace #1, published by DC’s Black Label imprint for mature readers. In a preview for the issue, Christopher Smith meets with a psychiatrist to see if his psychological profile will allow him to join the Suicide Squad, and recounts one macabre tragedy after another that he experienced at an early age.
Ever since the start of the Infinite Frontier era, Peacemaker has been a major fixture of the Suicide Squad series as Amanda Waller expands Task Force X’s mission to eventually take over and control Earth-3, home of the Crime Syndicate. However, after Waller sent Peacemaker on a dangerous mission to apprehend Swamp Thing, he was freed by the protector of the Green. Feeling that Waller impeded his mission to achieve total peace at any cost, Peacemaker has found an unlikely ally with Rick Flag and joined the Colonel’s own squad to take Waller down.
Ennis and Brown’s tale offers a much more grim look at what has made Peacemaker the unflinching lethal figure he is in comics today. While this origin differs significantly from the backstory depicted in the Peacemaker television series, it provides Smith with an even darker, bloodier upbringing and one that places him precariously on the moral line between hero and villain.
PEACEMAKER: DISTURBING THE PEACE #1
- Written by GARTH ENNIS
- Art by GARRY BROWN
- Cover by JUAN FERREYRA
- Variant by GARRY BROWN
- 1:25 variant by RYAN BROWN
- 1:50 variant by AMANDA CONNER
- $6.99 US | 40 pages | One-shot | Prestige
- ON SALE 1/25/22
- 17+
- The breakout character from The Suicide Squad gets his own tale of peace ahead of the upcoming HBO Max TV show!
- Long before joining the Suicide Squad, Christopher Smith, code name Peacemaker, meets with a psychiatrist—a woman dangerously obsessed with his bizarre and violent past. From his tragic childhood to his military service overseas to his multiple missions with Special Forces, Smith has more than his share of skeletons in the closet. But who’s actually analyzing whom? And will this trip down memory lane result in yet more fatalities?
- Garth Ennis and Garry Brown delve deep into Christopher Smith’s history of violence, and reveal what might bring peace—or not—to the Peacemaker.
Peacemaker: Disturbing the Peace #1 is written by Garth Ennis and illustrated by Garry Brown, with colors by Lee Loughridge and letters by Rob Steen. Main cover art was done by Juan Ferreyra, with variant covers contributed to by Garry Brown, Loughridge, Ryan Brown, Amanda Conner and Alex Sinclair. The issue goes on sale Jan. 25 from DC Comics.
Source: DC Comics
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