Self-Interest and The Common Good in “Suicide Squad” #4

Matthew Teutsch
6 min readJan 3, 2022

Over the course of this blog, I’ve written, extensively, about the ways that comics address political and social issues. The “preachies” in EC Comics are perhaps the most obvious examples of this. Today, I want to look at May 1987’s Suicide Squad #4 written by John Ostrander and drawn by Luke McDonnell. “William Hell’s Overture” is a self-contained story early Ostrander’s Suicide Squad run, and…

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Matthew Teutsch

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