Wow, what a turn around from the first volume. The focus has been turned completely towards the actual Suicide Squad instead of Vic Sage and his machinations. I liked the mission they went on and how the different characters reacted to it. They are basically taking on a super-powered ISIS. Received an advance copy from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

slow start but paid off in the end.

A vast, vast improvement on the first volume, easily. Every issue in this volume, including the 8 issue preview and the extra-sized annual are all drawn by the same artist, with the same inker, and the same colourist. That's what volume 1 should have had, not one penciller, eight thousand inkers, and god knows who else throwing their hat into the ring. Visual consistency is the key, people! Granted, the artwork isn't mindblowingly good, but it's decent, clear, clean, and anything's better than t...

(B+) 79% | GoodNotes: It's a less pungent onion: sautéed pity and peeled back layers, rich with gravy from the juices of its reprobate players.

Sean Ryan is back with new artist Philippe Briones. The art work is much much better this time around as compared to vol. 1. The story involves our team of super villians trying to stop an off shoot of the League of Assassins from setting off a chrono-bomb. Storywise I enjoyed it better than last volume because it was a bit more cohesive and not all over the place like last volume.

A splinter sect of the League of Assassins has broken off and this Suicide Squad is sent in to infiltrate and take it out. The Squad consists of : Deadshot, Black Manta. Captain Boomerang. Harley Quinn. Reverse-Flash (this is a thing? Guess so) and Parasite. I won't spoil the plot by talking about the plot any more.This newer version of the Squad is ok. I do not like what they did with Deadshot. WTF is wrong with him? Parkinsons? Seriously? Fix Him. Harley and Black Manta were well done. I rathe...

This is much better than the first volume and has quite a serious story being quite dramatic going into some depth with most of the characters. We have a new team with 6 members (some from last time) divided into two sets of three. Three working inside a cult and three working on extraction. I won't name names but one member gets brainwashed into the cult which upsets the plan from the beginning and a character I never really liked ends up getting a redemptive moment and an actually sad death. T...

3.5 starsI'll be the first one to admit I had super-low expectations going into Monsters because, let's face it, until the movie drops, there's no way DC will cancel this title. No matter what.Suicide Squad or New Suicide Squad is going to be a thing for a good long time to come.Unless the movie tanks... Anyway. Me = Zero Anticipation for Volume 2And maybe that was a good thing, because I was pleasantly surprised by the depth of the story in this one. Yeah. Depth.Ok, no. It didn't make me cry, o...

I love this series because it is willing to take on some bigger themes with this cast of characters. The theme here is who are the true monsters. The suicide squad goes up against monsters but are they monsters themselves and what makes a monster. Monsters are just not skin deep. This theme piggy backed on the control them of the previous volume has really made this series something to read and grab your attention.

Wow! This is what I'm looking for in this series, characters I care about, cause in the end it's all about the characters.This is the thing that Ryan gets and Glass did not, for readers to care about deaths you have to make us care about the characters. The first arc of the new series started off on a good place (flaws and all). It was not perfect but it understood what it needed to make the series interesting. This second builds on that and though there are still some hiccups it's actually quit...

While not as fun and insane as the first volume I still found myself enjoying this one. This time Mantis, Deadshot, and Boomrang are all on a mission to go undercover to take out a new "cult" clan that broke off from the League of Shadows. Harley, Reverse Flash, and Prasite are all on duty too as backup incase things go bad. So...things go bad. Lots of shit happens. And things explode. Sounds like Suicide Squad to me! What I liked: Art still solid. I really enjoy the moments with Deadshot and Ma...

The Suicide Squad is sent to the Middle East to deal with a terrorist group that had acquired super-hero type weapons and were recruiting super-villains. Things were wrong per usual and only the craziness of Harley Quinn and heroism of Reverse Flash managed to save the day after Black Manta started going native. All the action plus the behind the scenes shenanigans teasing the reader with what is to come made "Monsters" entertaining.

I received a preview eARC of this title from the publisher through NetGalley.This is the second sequence featuring the newly reformed Suicide Squad, and the team is finally starting to come together. Well, they're still pretty messed up and dysfunctional, but they're getting better. I mean, what can you expect from a squad of super-villains turned secret government operatives?My favorite member of the team is definitely Harley Quinn. This isn't the fun-loving, (mostly) good-natured vigilante wit...

A stronger storyline in this volume. I like the suicide squad, because you get a solid amount of characters and they're all bad guys. So the dynamics are interesting. As a whole Pretty good book. In this volume I don't think people reading this will be annoyed by Harley Quinn (I saw some are sick of her in SS) Good storyline, good artwork, good book. I received an advanced copy of this from NetGalley.com and the publisher.

**I received a free eARC from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review**A new terrorist organization is convinced they're making the world a better place, by getting rid of everything and everyone they consider a possible threat. The Suicide Squad is ordered to infiltrate the organization and destroy it from within. But one of them might forget the purpose of their mission, once they start getting closer to these terrorist...I must say I really enjoy seeing these villains wor...

I wonder how much attention DC pays to readers’ reviews - probably nowt much but they seem to have addressed two of the main complaints some people had about the first volume of Sean Ryan’s New Suicide Squad in this second book. First, there’s just the one artist throughout - Philippe Briones - as opposed to 8(!), and second, there’s just the one storyline instead of a few. Weirdly, those changes have resulted in a far inferior comic.A splinter group of Ra’s Al-Ghul’s League of Assassins imagina...

For the most part this was good! So in this volume the team are sent somewhere to stop a rouge group from The League of Assassins who are trying to blow up the world. The cast this time around is Harley Quinn, Deadshot, Parasite, Captain Boomerang, and Reverse Flash(not the cool reverse flash we all know a spaz version!) My main issue was there wasn't much story here, there also a side story with Black Manta which i didn't really care for. In the end despite its issues it still ends off on a hig...

One of the better collections of Suicide Squad. Action packed (even more than usual) and the characters are being fleshed out. The art is improving and this series should be selling okay. Only two more volumes in this run. I am already on the ground running with . And just picked up . August seems to be my Suicide Squad month. And I am liking it!

2.5Ehhh ... this wasn't the worst the Suicide Squad has had to offer.

I really really loved the friendship between Reverse-Flash and Harley Quinn in this.