Why is it named after a classic Led Zeppelin song?
Issue # 2 is entitled "When the Levee Breaks" and yet contains no reference to Led Zeppelin, what's up with that? Writer Adam Glass follows up his darkly violent premiere issue with the Suicide Squad's first assignment; taking on a horde of cyborg zombies. If that comes across as rather silly to you, than know that it is, but Glass seems to be in on the joke since the whole thing is rather tongue-in-cheek. While the first issue was dark in its tone, this one comes across as campy, while still containing plenty of bloody violence. It opens with Deadshot taking orders from the Squad's director Amanda Waller. The team's task is to kill every infected person inside a huge arena and rescue a woman who may have a vaccine. If the problem of the first issue was the lack of story, then the problem of this issue is the story itself. It's a 'b'-movie scenario that lacks intrigue and suspense, but it does provide some brainless fun. Ultimately though, the first two books of the New 52's Suicide Squad are non-essentials and that's what made me drop the series.
