Have you read the new Suicide Squad #1? I found that ALL members of that team fared badly--Waller and Harley were the tip of the iceberg. When the writer, artist, or bigwig in charge doesn't respect readers, it shows. Male and female characters alike deser

This is a tough one…I have to say right up front that I have ZERO objectivity about new teams on books I have worked on. I am way too possessive and filled with separation anxiety to judge anything fairly. And I have only read part of the issue—my pdf isn't complete, I don't think. So there's that.

However, i did meet the writer of the book, he cornered me at SDCC and asked a million questions about writing comics and writing the Squad. He seemed very nice, very intense, and he seemed like he had a plan. Hopefully future issues will meet your expectations? 

I really liked the last image on the last page, that was original and interesting.

One of the things that hit me about the end of Secret Six is that in one swoop, we wiped a lot of good stuff off the table, sadly.

That book had, just in the core team and what was going to be the ongoing cast; a black woman (Waller), an asexual woman, a Bengali woman, a Latin male, a Brazilian woman, a pansexual man, a bisexual man, a polyamorous relationship, two lesbians, two bisexual women, and a shark, and that's just the core characters and the close supporting cast.

I don't think there's another book at DC with that kind of cast yet, and it's hard to put that big a cast in a solo book like Batgirl. But we do plan to do some interesting cast choices in Firestorm, if that all works out!

I miss the Secret Six a lot. Hopefully Suicide Squad, and other books, will fill that gap S6 left behind.