SUICIDE SQUAD - From the Vaults! (Patreon)

SURPRISE, I have a digital release today from DC Comics!

LET THEM LIVE: UNPUBLISHED TALES FROM THE DC VAULT #1 finally unveils a SUICIDE SQUAD done-in-one issue I wrote way back in 2011.

Huge thanks to Katie Kubert and Marie Javins for helping Ambush Bug steal this story from the vaults so everyone can finally read it. It's my first DC Comics release in 7 years, and I hope there's more to come in the months ahead.

This was the very first script I ever wrote for the Big Two! 

Editor Pat McCallum hired me to write a Suicide Squad done-in-one as a possible fill-in issue during the DC New 52 in case the series ever fell off schedule. The first draft was just Deadshot on his own. The issue was never produced, but it did give me the chance to pitch on other DC projects. 

In 2016, editor Brian Cunningham found the script when he was organizing the Suicide Squad relaunch around the first movie. He really liked it and hired Tradd Moore to draw it.

I went back through the script at that point, adding Harley Quinn into the mix. Her antics helped create even more contrast between the breakneck violence and dark humor I wanted the story to have.

The issue was completed at that point, but never released...UNTIL TODAY!

Man oh man, what a trip.

Attached here for all of you:

- The original version of the script written in 2011.

- The revised version from 2016.

- Tradd's original cover.

- Tradd's character design sketches for Deadshot and Harley.

Enjoy!