Secret Six 15

[motteditor]

Ostrander's ballyhoo'd issue focusing on Deadshot is a good read, certainly one that measures up to the rest of Gail's work on the series -- which you can't always say about a guest stint, and certainly not a one-shot.

I'm curious how much of this has been established before? Pretty much all I know about Floyd is from the S6 books, so has all this history and meeting with Batman been presented before? I'm curious about what happened to his brother and his son...

[holtom2001]

You have to track down Deadshot's first miniseries. His second was pretty good, but his first was amazing. It's like no comic about a villian you've ever read. It makes you sort of understand why Layton is why he is. That mini, and the entire SS run, is just about the most amazing run by a writer in DC history. Ostrander makes you care about D-list villians, and none moreso than Deadshot, who is certainly no D-lister anymore.
Wish I could buy this issue - hope it's still on the racks when I next visit the city.

[gwangung]

Ostrander's ballyhoo'd issue focusing on Deadshot is a good read, certainly one that measures up to the rest of Gail's work on the series -- which you can't always say about a guest stint, and certainly not a one-shot.

I'm curious how much of this has been established before? Pretty much all I know about Floyd is from the S6 books, so has all this history and meeting with Batman been presented before? I'm curious about what happened to his brother and his son...

I am quite sure that this is all taken from Ostrander's retcon of Deadshot in Suicide Squad. Deadshot was a rather goofy 50s era Batman villain (who did run around in the tuxedo and top hat) and was defeated EXACTLY how Ostrander portrayed in the issue.

[Yandroth]

So glad the Showcase Presents Suicide Squad volume has seemingly made its way back onto the schedule for spring 2010...

[Joe_Perez]

I'm curious about what happened to his brother and his son...

I just happened to pick up the mini awhile back, after felling a pinch of nostalgia. It goes something like this: Ostrander established in the 1st mini that Floyd went off the deep end after his Mother manipulated him to kill his father and it went awry because the brother stepped in the way and he accidently killed him instead (It was rumored that Floyd hated him, but in fact he loved him). Years later the mother still wanted him to finish the job (after he'd become Deadshot and joined the Squad) so she arranged to have his son kidnapped and the kidnappers accidently killed the boy. Floyd went a little more crazy, shot his Mom through the spine, so she'd be paralyzed like the old man. In his mind they be equal.

Hopefully if they ever put out the showcase the repro the mini series too. It tied into the Squad storyline at the time, with the Senator who was blackmailing the Wall. Flagg took it upon himself to rid the Squad of the problem. Amanda sends the Squad after Flagg to stop the assassination. Deadshot can't kill Flagg so he kills the Senator himself the gets taken down in a hail of bullets from Police. He lives

[estee]

An excellent issue. The pacing and the dialogue was just perfect.

It also increased my appreciation of Deadshot.