Suicide Squad: Rebirth

In 2016, DC Comics relaunched its covert black-ops team with Suicide Squad: Rebirth (2016–present), a single-issue special that reestablished the franchise’s core premise: a government-sanctioned squad of incarcerated supervillains undertaking deadly missions in exchange for reduced sentences. Written by Rob Williams with art by Philip Tan, this one-shot served as a streamlined, high-stakes reintroduction to the team’s brutal, morally ambiguous world, setting the tone for the series that followed. For longtime fans, it’s a crisp, character-driven primer on why the Squad remains a cornerstone of DC’s darker storytelling.