Task Force Z #2 Review

Writer: Matthew Rosenberg / Artists: Eddy Barrows, Eber Ferreira, and Adriano Lucas / DC Comics The premise for Task Force Z is absolutely insane. But it also works really well. In this 12-issue series, we follow a team of undead supervillains atoning for their sins after death…without their consent.  That’s right. We are bringing back dead bad guys, using them as weapons to do our dirty deeds, and the best part is if they die on the job, we can just bring them back again. That’s crazy, but it’s a premise that yields unlimited opportunities. If you fight for Task Force X aka the Suicide Squad, you risk your life to get years off your sentence. But now there’s a new wrinkle on that risk. If you die on one of those missions, your undead husk, which still has remnants of your soul, might be used to continue to fight for pencil-pushing bureaucrats in death. What an absolute nightmare for them, and a reason for me to cozy up with a bowl of popcorn and see it all unfold.  The team is led by one living soul, Red Hood. And it features the zombified remains of Man-Bat, BaneArkham Knight, Sundowner, and Mr. Bloom. Actually, Mr. Bloom isn’t dead either. He’s just out there vibing. What a weirdo. 

Red Hood is there against his will, as is basically any member of a Task Force team, and he has to navigate leading this wild team of dead people with limited answers as to why they need him or what their objective is. The zombie villains are reanimated by Lazarus resin, fro…