A solid volume of the suicide squad. The Apokalips Now story isn't as good as some of the Squad's greats, but it's still a fun bit of chaos with some really shocking repercussions. 
 Personnel Files: Father Craemer (31). A nice look at the support staff of the Suicide Squad, but otherwise a very slow story, even for one of these Personnel Files [5/10]. 
 Steel Trap (32). A rescue in Iran, keeping with the Suicide Squad's real-world theming, but otherwise not a particularly notable issue [5/10]. 
 Apokalips Now (33-36). Duchess' storyline has a been a long time coming. Her heel turn feels a little bit extreme, but maybe I'd see that cruelty and sociopathy if I went back and read all her old appearances. In any case, this is a fun trip to Apokalips with rather shocking consequences at the end -- to the point where you wonder how the Squad is going to possibly be put together. Other than the fighting getting a bit long in issue #35, this is another of the Squad's winners [7/10]. 
 Repercussions (37-39). These final issues really show the strengths of the Squad's storytelling, focusing on character and long-term arc. This allows Ostrander to put the short-term arc, about the Loa, way in the background, while instead concentrating on the downfall of the rest of the Squad. Each issue, we get another character (Boomer, Bronze Tiger, and The Wall), and by the end we have such a shocking change of state that you wonder if they'll be a #40 at all. Having superheroes actually change like this doesn't happen enough today, and was pretty much unknown at the time, making it that much more notable [7/10]