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As the Suicide Squad targets the Joker, they quickly go from hunter to hunted, with the villain gaining a powerful DCEU weapon to use against them.
WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Suicide Squad: Get Joker #1, on sale now from DC Comics.
The new DC Black Label miniseries Suicide Squad: Get Joker more than lives up to its title, with Amanda Waller recruiting a new motley crew of antiheroes and supervillains in order to track down and kill the Clown Prince of Crime. Led by Jason Todd as the team’s field commander, the lethal ensemble quickly moves into Gotham City to locate their target and terminate him with extreme prejudice. But after a botched ambush lets them know that the Joker is well-aware of their presence and mission, the supervillain has acquired the one weapon that puts the entire Suicide Squad at his mercy, and he already killing one of the team in a fiery show of force.
Just like the main DC Universe’s Task Force X, Waller implants explosive devices in the Suicide Squad before they are deployed on the field to ensure their compliance. Normally, the only person with access to triggering these devices is Waller herself, who is comfortably back at her own home supervising the clandestine operation as the ensemble arms themselves and makes landfall. But after Harley Quinn and the rest of the team narrowly survive a brutal gunfight at one of the Joker’s old haunts, the Suicide Squad learns they were lured into a trap by a decoy while the Joker himself moves to target Waller directly in the end of the first issue, by Brian Azzarello, Alex Maleev, Matt Hollingsworth and Jared K. Fletcher.
While Jason calls Waller to protest keeping the full scope of the mission — including her deal with Gotham’s Russian mobsters to help locate the Joker’s alleged position — the Clown Prince of Crime strikes. Leading his goons, with both himself and his men all dressed as the Droogs from A Clockwork Orange, the Joker ambushes Waller in her own apartment. While directly quoting the film inspiring his current look, the Joker brutally beats Waller with his cane and seizes the controls to the Suicide Squad’s implanted devices. And as Jason and the team realize what has just occurred, the Joker uses his new toy to cause the supervillain Firefly to combust on the spot, with his teammates watching in horror as he burns to death before their eyes.
With their lives now literally in the Joker’s hands, the Suicide Squad will likely be forced to do whatever he says, lest they want to share Firefly’s explosive fate. For Jason and Harley, this is particularly problematic given both of their respective traumatic history with the character. And with an advance preview of Suicide Squad: Get Joker #2 showing Jason and the Joker face-to-face, it’s clear that the villain is looking forward to getting right to business and meeting his unwilling accomplices rather than control and communicate with them from a distance.
In attempting to kill the Joker, Waller has not only had the tables turned on her; she has inadvertently given him an explosive weapon controlling a whole set of unwilling playmates for his next set of antics. Jason and Harley have spent years trying to recover from the horrors that the Joker subjected them to, and now both find themselves right in his clutches lest they face the deadly consequences for noncompliance. And while the Suicide Squad are at the Joker’s mercy, all of Gotham may soon feel his wrath with a new hit squad of supervillains at his coercive command.
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