This week of comics started off really weird for me. I read Wolverine and the X-Men #4 and Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 9 #5 back-to-back and each issue ended with a main character discovering they were pregnant. The problem is that unless I missed something neither of them had the chance to become pregnant. It kind of soured me on both books, not because they were not good, but stories like these usually do not have an enjoyable ending. It has me concerned about subsequent issues. Luckily, there were plenty of books that I loved this week that did not follow this trend, which is good because I do not think the Suicide Squad, Peter Parker, or the Shade would make very good mothers. Just saying.

SUICIDE SQUAD #5
DC Comics
Written by Adam Glass
Art by Federico Dallocchio

There are books in the DC relaunch we talk about often. There are books that are fantastic and there are books that are lame. That sounds about as good a ratio as you can get. Not every book will be bad and not every book will be good. What DC has done well is to have a wonderful list of mid-level books that have improved on themselves with every issue, so now at five issues in they have a nice stack of titles that might not be fantastic, but they are better than average and getting better every single month. Suicide Squad is one of those books.

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