Dates
- Cover date
- April 2022
- On sale
- February 8, 2022
- In stores
- February 8, 2022
- Pages
- 52
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- Blaze [Part One] · 48 pages
The discovery of a meta-powered killer who has been abducting and killing people under the radar for years prompts Amanda Waller to recruit 5 new members for the Suicide Squad and inject them with an experimental chemical called Blaze, which gives them random super-powers but will also kill them within a few months. But first, the new recruits must survive against Harley Quinn, Peacemaker, King Shark, and Captain Boomerang.
Publisher’s description
The attacks begin without warning. Brutal, sudden…cannibalistic. A metahuman with all the power of Superman but none of his humanity. An unstoppable being ruled only by hunger and instinct, striking at random across the world. To stop this threat, Harley Quinn, Peacemaker, Captain Boomerang, and King Shark have been assigned to corral, nursemaid, and if necessary execute five deadly new recruits: the expendable products of a secret government procedure called BLAZE. They’re ordinary prisoners, endowed with incredible power…in the certain knowledge that it’ll burn through them like wildfire. They have six months to live, maximum. If you’re staring down life in prison, maybe that’s a good deal—especially if you’re Michael Van Zandt, desperate to reunite with the mad lover who forsook you after your Bonnie-and-Clyde crime spree. But that power? It’s surprisingly transferrable. As each member of the Squad dies…the others get stronger. What would a hardened criminal do with that knowledge? Worse yet: What would a desperate, lovesick idiot do with it? One thing’s certain: this time the Suicide Squad’s bitten off more than it can chew. Win or lose—they all burn. Simon Spurrier and Aaron Campbell, the creative team behind the critically acclaimed John Constantine: Hellblazer, have been turned loose on the one DC title even more horrific and blackhearted than that one! We suggest you brace yourselves…
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Suicide Squad: Blaze (2022)