

As you’ll recall, Gunn was semi-canceled several years ago by a weaponized far-right misinformation campaign, the kind that pretended that off-color jokes on Twitter about pedophilia made you a pedophile, instead of just an asshole who probably needed to keep his mouth shut.

Get Your Gunn: It’s amazing to recall the bizarre set of circumstances that brought James Gunn into the DC universe, and this story in particular. But as one thing after another goes horribly wrong, and the roster gets smaller and smaller, the remaining squaddies learn there’s a lot more to Starfish than they thought - and that the fact of the world may well depend on them shutting the hell up and stepping up to the plate. This time around, the latest assemblage of the Squad has its most dangerous mission yet ahead of them: infiltrate the hostile Central American country of Corto Maltese and destroy a mysterious weapon of mass destruction known as Project Starfish. (Plus, if you disobey, Waller can just detonate the bomb she’s planted in your brainpan.) But unofficially, they’re known as The Suicide Squad - mostly because the members’ list has a higher turnaround than a suburban Wendy’s. The Pitch: Officially, they’re known as Task Force X, the reluctant team of dispensable, imprisoned supervillains roped into service by the unscrupulous Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) to do the jobs no one else will take in exchange for time off their sentence.
