This video-game tie-in is dedicated to showing us the inner workings of the new Arkham Asylum as Amanda Waller builds the Suicide Squad, and it's an ugly place. Read Full Review

While I still can't recommend this book, this issue was a vast improvement over the first. The dark humor in Krupps rise and fall in Arkham garners a few chuckles from me, and Deadshot's tale is equally pleasing. That said, the artwork is sloppy and unclear at times, the premise makes no sense, and the bulk of the story feels like unnecessary padding. Suicide Squad: Kill Arkham Asylum has nothing to say and nothing to add to an already mindless experience. Fortunately, I did enjoy the Stanford Prison Experiment-like vibe of the book, even if it felt unwarranted. Read Full Review

Neither the action nor the new story threads possess much impact suggesting this story concept would have been much more fun to play as a video game than to read as a comic book. Read Full Review

Nice to have Great White Shark here in the same style as his Arkham Asylum bio

Rest in Peace

I considered issue 1 a nothing issue, since nothing of significance happened to make you excited for this new comic series, but not an completely incompetent comic. However, I don't think i can say the same about today's issue. This is straight up a bad comic.

For starters, continuity errors. The comic opens with Killer Moth getting beat up but if you played, and payed attention to, Arkham Knight you know this is impossible since the character is dead on the Arkham verse. I know, in the game they make this mistake to, and that just goes to show how much the people behind this project care. On top of that, the comic is super slow, yoy think after the end of issue 1 setting up a prison scape this one would be fast paced with decent action but no, it's super slow.

After that we get some commentary about prison guard brutality and I don't know how to feel about that. If the guards were shown mistreating regular inmates, i could get behind the characters but we're talking about Batman's villains. Harley in this universe for instance has killed children after months of torture. I can't feel bad about these characters, they are the worst of the worst after all. What I'm saying is that the topic is interesting but poorly implemented and half way through it gets thrown out of the window anyway.

We also get to see why Deadshot hates Deathstroke so much and it's just the most bland and generic reason you can think of. Deathstroke also feels bland, having pretty much zero personality here, he doesn't feel like Arkham Deathstroke at all. And he has worked in teams before with other villains so his talk about not working with other assassins feels a little bit out of place.

The artwork is lefts to be desired too, with characters looking off model and hard to recognize in certain pages.

So, we have bad continuity, a whatever story, bland characters and the art is far from the best. Besides, the hype for the SS game is dead at this point. I see no reason to follow this series anymore. more