Bill Willingham Writer
Sean Chen Penciller Interior & Cover
Walden Wong Inker
Steve Wands Letterer
John Kalisz Colorist Interior & Cover
Stephanie Buscema Asst. Editor
Joey Cavalieri Editor
Variant Cover by Joe Corroney
The main cover shows the Rogues who didn't escape the Suicide Squad — Captain Cold, Heat Wave, Mirror Master, Weather Wizard and Abra Kadabra — facing off against a massive army. It's a pretty decent cover, and I particularly enjoy the text saying, "They killed the Flash ... now their sentence is ... Salvation Run." I'm always happy to see how the murder of Bart is affecting others.
I got this image of the variant cover from mycomicshop.com, my favorite online comic book store. This cover basically follows the same format of the main cover, except it includes a bunch of villains that aren't in this first issue — Lex Luthor, Catwoman, Solomon Grundy, Poison Ivy, Gorilla Grodd, Doctor Light and Man-Bat. They'll all appear later in this series, but I think anyone who grabbed this variant cover would have been disappointed.
Our story begins with Amanda Waller discussing with Rick Flag whether it was ethical of them, the Suicide Squad, to gather up all the super villains they could find and banish them on a different planet. Flag believes they're absolutely in the right, recounting the recent events that necessitated such a drastic action. Black Adam essentially destroyed an entire country, the Amazons invaded Washington, D.C., and, of course, the Rogues killed the Flash, whom Flag refers to as one of their "most revered heroes."
The rest of the issue deals with the struggles of the Rogues on this strange, new planet. They were allowed to keep their weapons and outfits, and promised they'd have a peaceful planet to conquer for themselves. However, that turns out that's not the case, as the planet is filled with deadly robots (including the army from the cover). The Rogues have to figure out how to work together in order to survive this hostile environment. At the end of the issue, they encounter the next group of villains teleported to this planet by the Suicide Squad. They're mostly C-list villains, but there are a couple of big names, such as the Joker, Mr. Freeze, Killer Frost, Clayface and Psimon.
This is was an interesting concept, especially since it was set up in other books like Countdown and the Outsiders. However, I do think it's a little far-fetched that the Suicide Squad was able to carry out this enormous mission — especially with Batman and the Outsiders investigating it. Unless, of course, a small part of Batman actually agreed with this and allowed it to happen. Hmm ... that could be an interesting twist. Anyway, we won't be covering the rest of this story, since, you know, Bart is dead.
Next time, we'll conclude our tale with the Titans of Tomorrow in Teen Titans #54.
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