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| Topic | Scarlet Ranks Anything Comic Book Related, As Nominated by the Users |
| scarletspeed7 06/20/22 7:37:31 PM #14: | Snake5555555555 posted... John Ostrander's Suicide Squad Rating: 94/100 Current Ranking: #2 What Ostrander did for comics is humanize villains in a way that Marvel even until that point hadn't managed. Coming out of Crisis on Infinite Earths, DC ends up pulling out line-up after line-up of all-star creative team, giving every single one of them the opportunity to redefine the legacy of their characters du jour. Ostrander and company chose to resurrect a property deceased for decades, revitalizing a mid-tier bog-standard military title into something far more intriguing - villains, united. Paid, even, for the privilege of dying in the name of the US government. What that intense amount of mortality does to the series is creates an antagonist that hangs over the top of every single character in the title, humanizing them, providing pathos for characters who heretofore had never demonstrated a single iota of warmth. Boomerang, Deadshot, Count Vertigo. It gave new careers to the crippled Barbara Gordon, Poison Ivy, Nightshade. It turned Lashina into the most interesting of the New Gods and it created Amanda Waller, one of DC's absolute finest. Ostrander deserves a parade with balloons for essentially providing a template Marvel has since aped a dozen times, with Thunderbolts, Dark Avengers, Peter David's X-Factor and more. --- "It is too easy being monsters. Let us try to be human." ~Victor Frankenstein, Penny Dreadful ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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