With a big-budget movie about their villainous hijinx hitting screens just around the corner, DC seems pretty keen to get people hyped up about the Suicide Squad, and you have to admit that publisher is doing everything it can to get people to jump on. There's the New 52 run ready to go, reprints of the classic '80s series in paperback --- all the way up to the original Deadshot miniseries --- and  the next issue of the current New Suicide Squad series sees a new creative team kicking things off with a tour of Belle Reeve prison, so that we can all get on the same page with how this stuff works.

The team in question is Tim Seeley and Juan Ferreyra, and in New Suicide Squad #17, they've hit on a pretty interesting way of explaining the concept for new readers that hasn't actually been done before: Task Force X is franchising. Check out a preview below!

 

New Suicide Squad #17, DC Comics
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New Suicide Squad #17, DC Comics
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New Suicide Squad #17, DC Comics
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And just for the heck of it, here's a closer look at a page from later in the book:

 

New Suicide Squad #17, DC Comics
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And here's the official solicitation:

 

NEW SUICIDE SQUAD #17
Written by TIM SEELEY
Art and cover by JUAN FERREYRA
On sale FEBRUARY 10 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T+
Gothamites Tim Seeley (GRAYSON, BATMAN ETERNAL) and Juan Ferreyra (GOTHAM BY MIDNIGHT, BATMAN ETERNAL) visit the dark and unspeakably violent world of the Suicide Squad for a thrilling new storyline that begins here! Indentured super villain Harley Quinn has made covert contact with someone outside the walls of Belle Reve prison—and this mysterious savior has discovered the secrets of Amanda Waller and Task Force X.

 

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