Suicide Squad #22

Suicide Squad # 22 gets my vote for the all-time most overlooked comic book in history.   The concept is completely absurd.   A team of super-villains which has been sanctioned by the government gets the call to go after Rick Flag - one of the few heroes on the team and its leader.   Flag had been having a rough time since his girlfriend Karin Grace returned, seemingly from the dead, only to die again.   The team has become his new family and the only thing he has got left.   Now a Senator comes forward threatening to blackmail them.   Flag being who he is, decides to take matters into his own hands, and goes to assassinate the Senator.    The team’s director Amanda Waller (who doesn’t love to hate her?) tells the squad to stop him from killing the senator by any means.   The issue also serves as a sort of wrap up for the Deadshot miniseries.   For anyone who hasn’t read the Deadshot miniseries it is probably the finest example of comic book writing over a four issue arc of the two mainstream companies in their collective histories.    I guess that is a bit of a spoiler, you can probably guess who finds Flag, but what happens next is one of the best moments in comic book history (my other favourite moment in comic book history is at the end of Bruce Wayne fugitive, when Batman outsmarts Cain at the end), and I wish anyone who ever wrote anything about Deadshot in any comic were to read the miniseries and this one issue (not to mention the icing on the cake is where we see Deadshot waiting at the at the beginning of the climactic moment.)      In short, this issue is the reason why I love comics, this particular issue is more memorable for me than almost any movie I have ever watched.   I will forever love everything John Ostrander ever writes just because of this one issue, and he has written a lot of other great issues as well.