Comic Title: Suicide Squad:The Janus Directive TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2016
On Sale Date: July 13, 2016 Direct Market Date July 13, 2016
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Direct Market Date July 13, 2016
Source: Previews, DC Previews Supplement

Cover Price: $19.99
Page Count: 296
Editor: Liz Erickson

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Heavy Squad"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Suicide Squad (Post-Crisis)

Writer: John Ostrander
Writer: Kim Yale
Penciller: John K. Snyder III
Inker: Pablo Marcos
Letterer: Todd Klein
Colorist: Carl Gafford

Reprinted From:
Suicide Squad #29 (1989)

Feature Character(s)

• Suicide Squad (last appearance in Suicide Squad #28; next appearance in Checkmate #18)
• Bronze Tiger (last appearance in Checkmate #16; next appearance in Checkmate #18)
• Captain Boomerang (last appearance in Checkmate #16; next appearance in Checkmate #18)
• Doctor Light (last appearance in Suicide Squad #27; next appearance in Checkmate #18)
• Duchess (last appearance in Suicide Squad #28; next appearance in Checkmate #18)
• Punch (last appearance in Suicide Squad #27; next appearance in Checkmate #18)
• Jewelee (last appearance in Suicide Squad #27; next appearance in Checkmate #18)
• Ravan (last appearance in Suicide Squad #27; next appearance in Checkmate #18)
• Vixen (last appearance in Suicide Squad #28; next appearance in Checkmate #18)

Guest Star(s)

• Manhunter (last appearance in Manhunter #14; next appearance in Checkmate #18)
• Firestorm (last appearance in Firestorm the Nuclear Man #86; next appearance in Checkmate #18)
• Mikhail Arkadin (behind-the-scenes in the Firestorm matrix; last appearance in Firestorm the Nuclear Man #86; next appearance in Checkmate #18)
• Svarozhich (behind-the-scenes in the Firestorm matrix; last appearance in Firestorm the Nuclear Man #86; next appearance in Checkmate #18)
• Peacemaker (last appearance in Checkmate #17; next appearance in Checkmate #18)
• Checkmate (last appearance in Checkmate #17; next appearance in Checkmate #18)
• Harry Stein (last appearance in Checkmate #17; next appearance in Checkmate #18)
• Harvey Bullock (last appearance in Checkmate #17; next appearance in Checkmate #19)
• Black Thorn (last appearance in Checkmate #17; next appearance in Checkmate #18)
• Valentina Vostok (last appearance in Checkmate #17; next appearance in Checkmate #18)
• Major Force (last appearance in Suicide Squad #28; next appearance in Checkmate #18)
• Wade Eiling (mistakenly called a colonel in this story; last appearance in Checkmate #17; next appearance in Checkmate #18)

Supporting Character(s)

• Amanda Waller (last appearance in Manhunter #14; next appearance in Checkmate #18)
• Flo Crowly (last appearance in Firestorm the Nuclear Man #86; next appearance in Checkmate #18)
• John Economos (last appearance in Suicide Squad #28; next appearance in Manhunter #15)
• J. Daniel Murphy (last appearance in Suicide Squad #28; next appearance in Suicide Squad #30)
• Simon LaGrieve (on the telephone; last appearance in Firestorm the Nuclear Man #86; next appearance in Firestorm the Nuclear Man #87)
• Jack Kovacs (aka J. Danfield Kale; last appearance in Suicide Squad #26; next appearance in Checkmate #18)
• Nightshade (last appearance in Suicide Squad #28; next appearance in Checkmate #18)
• Briscoe (last appearance in Suicide Squad #25; next appearance in Checkmate #18)

Villain(s)

• Kobra (last appearance in Checkmate #17; next appearance in Checkmate #18)
• Valland (one of Kobra's scientists; next appearance in Checkmate #18)
• Force of July (last appearance in Suicide Squad #27; no further appearances)
• Major Victory (last appearance in Suicide Squad #27; next appearance in Suicide Squad #30)
• Lady Liberty (last appearance in Suicide Squad #27; next appearance in Checkmate #18)
• Silent Majority (last appearance in Suicide Squad #27; next appearance in Checkmate #18)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Lois Lane (last appearance in Checkmate #17; next appearance in Checkmate #18)
• Captain Atom (last appearance in Suicide Squad #28; next appearance in Checkmate #18)
• Heinrich Megala (last appearance in Suicide Squad #28; next appearance in Checkmate #18)
• King Faraday (last appearance in Suicide Squad #28; next appearance in New Titans #58)
• Sarge Steel (last appearance in Superman #26; next appearance in Checkmate #18)
• John Reed (last appearance in Checkmate #17; next appearance in Checkmate #18)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Shade the Changing Man (depicted in symbolic splash panel only)

Comments:
The Janus Directive Part 8

This story is continued from Firestorm the Nuclear Man #86 and continues in Checkmate #18.

Synopsis:
Harry Stein and Wade Eiling join forces to send agents of Checkmate and the Atom Project in an all-out assault on Belle Reve prison. Their mission is to capture Amanda Waller. While Peacemaker and Major Force concentrate their efforts on the exterior of the facility, Valentina Vostok and Knight John Reed release the surviving members of the Force of July. This group then meets the Suicide Squad in battle. Elsewhere, Black Thorn hunts down Amanda Waller.

Meanwhile in orbit, Kobra prepares to utilize his microwave weapon to kill the inhabitants of Earth. Manhunter has infiltrated Kobra's ranks disguised as one of Kobra's ninjas.

Back at Belle Reve, Firestorm arrives on the scene and engages Major Force. As the battle reaches its apex, Amanda Waller dons the Medusa Mask and uses it to halt the fighting. She brings together the leaders of the various groups and reveals that Kobra is the true villain involved. A doppelganger was supposed to have replaced her, but she caught on and has been orchestrating events to gain more information on Kobra's plot.