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In the latest spotlight on comic crossovers wreaking havoc, see how Black Adam drew the Suicide Squad into DC’s War of the Gods
Today, we look at the time that Black Adam drew the Suicide Squad into a War of the Gods!
This is “Can’t Cross Over,” a feature where I look at instances when comic book writers had to adjust their stories to deal with crossovers.
War of the Gods was a Wonder Woman-centric crossover event designed to celebrate Wonder Woman’s 50th anniversary. The concept is that the villainous Circe manipulates the various gods of the DC Universe into conflict with each other. This whole thing is designed to weaken the cosmic balance enough so that Circe can kill Gaea and take control of Earth for herself, reshaping the whole world in her image.
The War of the Gods miniseries (by George Perez and a number of other artists, mostly Russ Braun doing pencils, though, and Pablo Marcos) saw Black Adam called into the scene…
Black Adam wants to attack Circe at her Amazon stronghold, but he needs cannon fodder to distract Circe’s soldiers while he makes his attack, so he goes to visit Amanda Waller and demands the use of the Suicide Squad in Suicide Squad #58 (by John Ostrander, Kim Yale, Geof Isherwood and Robert Campanella)..
This was at a point in time where the Squad was no longer wearing costumes, but Ostrander cleverly gets their costumes back for this bigger crossover event by having Black Adam specifically ask for them…
The Squad put together for this mission is a fascinating mixture of weird characters, including Grant Morrison’s character from Animal Man, which was, of course, supposed to be Morrison themselves, but here, Ostrander assumes that Morrison’s character is a distinct being known as the Writer…
Seeing the Squad in action by Isherwood and Campanella is quite the sight!
We see Black Adam confront Circe in War of the Gods #3, where he learns that he is being manipulated by the Egyptian gods (who are being manipulated by Circe)…
And fascinatingly, one of the Suicide Squad members, Javelin, actually meets his final fate in War of the Gods #3 and not in the pages o Suicide Squad itself (Javelin is famously one of the characters in the new Suicide Squad movie)…
Ostrander and Yale were very giving with the use of their characters for this crossover. They definitely played ball well.
Okay, folks, feel free to suggest ideas for a future Can’t Crossover to brianc@cbr.com!
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