#ben turner

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300: Rise Of An Empire (2014)

#2014 #film #movie #comics #300: Rise Of An Empire #300 #Rise Of An Empire #Frank Miller #Eva Green #Artemisia #Ben Turner #General Artaphernes #Sullivan Stapleton #Themistocles #Rodrigo Santoro #Xerxes #Lena Headey #Queen Gorgo #Sparta #Athen #Persian Empire #Salamis #480 BC

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Diana and J’onn in Justice League Task Force #30

#j'onn j'onzz #diana of themyscira #dc comics #wonder woman #jonn jonzz #diana prince #martian manhunter #dc #dick grayson #nightwing #justice league task force #justice league #mari mccabe #ben turner #dinah lance #bart allen #ralph dibny #nightwing's hair omg

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Suicide Squad #13 (1988) by John Ostrander & Luke McDonnell

#mister miracle #deadshot #floyd lawton #scott free #mr miracle #bronze tiger #benjamin turner #ben turner #suicide squad #john ostrander #luke mcdonnell #dc #dc comics #80s comics #80s #comics

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If Rocksteady can introduce queer Rick Flag in the game, can we PLEASE talk about Bronze Tiger?? 🤨

Commissions open

#suicide squad #ssktjl #rick flag #bronze tiger #dc comics #ben turner #john ostrander #gay #lgbtqia #ship #queer

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🎥 TOUR DE FRANCE SCHIET DRIEPUNTERS 🏀 (BASKETBAL WEDSTRIJD!) | TOUR DE FRANCE 2023 #7

#ben turner #ineos grenadiers #tour de tietema #tour de france 2023 #TDF2023 #tour de france #le tour de france #my gifs

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Chinjeolhan geumjassi [Sympathy for Lady Vengeance] 2005 Park Chan-Wook

poster art by BEN TURNER

#park chan wook #poster art #poster #art #movie poster art #movie poster #ben turner #cinema #movies #film #korean cinema #korean movies #korean film #sympathy for lady vengeance #Chinjeolhan geumjassi

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on arrow season 2 they started setting up the suicide squad members, they had plans on making that a big plot, but due to the suicide squad movie being released they had to scrap that

would you have liked to see more of the suicide squad on the show?

yes

no

Good question Anon and thanks for the suggestion. Please keep all ya suggestions coming I'm always interested in them.

#john diggle #lyla michaels #floyd lawton #ben turner #chien na wei #mark scheffer #deadshot #bronze tiger #amanda waller #task force x #suicide squad #arrow #arrowverse #requested polls #personally the episode in season 3 with the squad is in my top 15 episodes #and one of the eps where the side mission i was more interested in than the main story sorry ray #david ramsey #Cynthia Addai-Robinson #Michael Jai White #kelly hu #sean maher

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Suicide Squad by John Ostrander (and Kim Yale) Reading Order

This is the run that influenced both movies to the point where James Gunn has given it multiple shoutouts.

It created Amanda Waller, distinguished the team, and gave many characters new characteristics, like Deadshot’s death wish and Captain Boomerang’s backstory. Because of the constantly rotating lineup Ostrander was able to bring characters out of limbo like Shade (who spun out into a miniseries that was so popular it became a 70 issue run), Vixen, Bronze Tiger, and Nightshade and make them significant. As well as turning Barbara Gordon into Oracle. Something I never see mentioned is that a couple dozen issues into the run Kim Yale —a DC editor and eventually wife of Ostrander— started being credited as co-writer through to the end. Bold=Main Story Italics=Optional

Legends 1-6 — Event miniseries by Ostrander that brings the team together. You can just skim the SS parts, which is any scene with Boomerang, Waller, or Flag.

Secret Origins 14

Suicide Squad 1-10

Doom Patrol/SS Special — Takes place around the same time as 11 and 12 but 12 spoils the end.

SS 11-12

Justice League International 13, SS 13 — Crossover

SO 28 — Backstory of Nightshade. Not by Ostrander but she has a detailed origin that shouldn't be skipped.

SS 14-18

Deadshot 1 — 4 issue miniseries by Ostrander. The character doesn't show up in SS again until 22 but this issue has a break between stuff and is mentioned in 19, whereas 2-4 are one story.

SS 19

Manhunter 6, SS Annual 1 — Manhunter sets things up but the Annual feels so different that it doesn't come off like the same story.

SS 20

Deadshot 2-4

SS 21-26

The Janus Directive: Checkmate 15, SS 27, CM 16, SS 28, CM 17, Manhunter 14, Firestorm 86, SS 29, CM 18, SS 30, Captain Atom 30 — long crossover, involving some other titles by Ostrander.

SS 31-66

SS (V3) 1-8 — Returned years later for an 8 issue miniseries that spins out of Rucka’s Checkmate. It works fine without reading Checkmate (which I still haven’t.)

SS 67 — The title comes back years later as part of Blackest Night but it's really more of a Secret Six tie-in and should be read with that instead.

See Also:

Firestorm — Beginning with 55 Ostrander takes over. This was written around the same time as SS and even crosses over during the Janus Directive.

Spectre 1-22, 0, 23-33, Annual 1, 34-62 — Beginning shortly after SS ends, Ostrander begins by far the longest run anyone has had with the right hand of God. Partnered with his frequent penciler Tom Mandrake.

Martian Manhunter 0, 1 Million, 1-36 — After Spectre ends he and Mandrake tell the definitive (and again, longest) run of the character. I would recommend it to anyone curious about MM.

Secret Six — Gail Simone was a big fan of Ostrander’s Suicide Squad and this is basically her version of it, even co-writing an arc with him. It goes through a couple volumes and short return during New 52.

Villains United 1-6, VU Infinite Crisis Special, Secret 6 1-6, Birds of Prey 104-108, S6 1-16, Suicide Squad 67, S6 17-30, Doom Patrol 19, S6 31-36, DC Sneak Peek: S6, S6 1-14

#reading order #reading list #suicide squad #Amanda Waller #deadshot #floyd lawton #rick flag #bronze Tiger #Ben turner #john ostrander #Kim Yale #nightshade #eve Eden #enchantress #june moone #count vertigo #Werner zytle

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I'll confess to not being a fan of the way Ben's backstory is written in Suicide Squad #38. I feel like a lot of the way they handle Ben's trauma as a child is ... very different from how they would've handled a white character who had killed someone as a child.

Like a lot of it seems to be trying to imply he's just got this innate rage/need for violence, either stemming from trauma of witnessing his parents being assaulted (and then killing the assaulter) or that just being the first time he became aware of it, depending on how you choose to read it.

like the most charitable interpretation of this is ben's guilt making him mix up his memories and adrenaline rush but i'm really not sure I feel like giving the authors so much of benefit of the doubt given the rest of the story.

like again: disclaimer: I don't think that there's anything wrong if a child did kill someone in self defense and then didn't feel bad about it. but using the story elements present, like I said, I feel like it's written very different from who DC would write a white child in the same situation. Ben's anger is emphasized a lot, even though he wasn't written as particularly angry at all in the first 37 issues. And like, he has reason to be angry, but it's more of just treated as 'he's angry in general and he felt better knowing that he could hurt people and enjoyed it" than "he has reason to be angry and would want to learn how to fight/hurt people due to having witnessed his parents being assaulted and having to kill someone at 10 years old".

He also is clarified to have killed people for the LoA

But in the first comic I've read with him in the LoA, part of what frustrates sensei is that ben doesn't kill

Detective Comics #485

maybe it's different if they changed it from him having amnesia to being brainwashed? either way, it's weird.

and maybe i would change my mind if i read all of ben's comics in richard dragon, I'll confess I haven't read them there, or all the connecting comics between that and suicide squad. but this is mostly me putting my thoughts down and it just seems pretty weird to me.

After this encounter with Steel, where he has ben put on his tiger mask again, Ben has a mental breakdown and becomes a mercenary for a year and is convinced he's a terrible person. No one else seems to believe it, Ravan doesn't, Waller and Mari don't. I don't know if they just wanted an excuse to get rid of Ben for a year while Waller was in jail or what but it all feels kind of pointless

#suicide squad 1987 #fade reads dc comics #dc comics #ben turner #bronze tiger #violence cw #guns cw

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Was thinking about how I would write a Suicide Squad book if I got the chance to post (hypothetical) Absolute Power and like... I would totally rock this guys

Won't go totally into it here I don't think because time and also feeling pumped about the idea so may write something for it (which I have an AWFUL track record for finishing, but also if current Waller appearances piss me off enough who knows) but anyways it would have Amanda Waller and Ben Turner (Bronze Tiger) as dueteragonists, (especially for the first few arcs, although moving to a greater Waller focus [at least for a bit] around issue 10? 15? When she really starts to do things). Anyways the main story (at least at the beginning) would follow Ben Turner as he leads the squad both in the field and at home (essentially acting as the "Waller" along with his normal field leader duties) while secretly having Waller herself in residence at Belle Reve pretending to be a prisoner.

Early issues would focus on Ben saving the world (and keeping the squad in check) while also struggling to hide Waller from the government, heroes, and the rest of Belle Reve (save an accomplice or two). This of course works great, until it doesn't

#not sure what the full squad setup would be here but on the more administrative side you would have john economos returning as belle reve #warden from the 87 series (with a focus on 'hey! this guy is corrupt!' in both a loser and maybe a threatening way) #and richard dragon i think. because ben will be under a lot of stress and should have a trusted friend there #and also for character reasons of course. yay character development!!!!! #richard would only be around for the first few arcs though like even before waller gets out of her cell hes gone #mainly i need him there to prompt a realization and some development for ben #also for when either shiva and/or cain shows up. because i love drama (and the kung fu trio <3) #there would be a justice for carolyn wu san moment bc i love her. but also like gap between what someone 'deserves' and what you could give #and the kind of person your loved one and you want yourself to be #(yeah ben spares cain's life. breaks some bones but yeah) #anyways eventually amanda gets found out. which ofc causes PROBLEMS. but at least it means she gets to do things in the plot and be all #waller like as opposed to being waller still but mainly focusing like character stuff. offering advice. small scale conflicts. near misses #w being found out etc. #but yeah this idea is very dear to me #amanda waller #ben turner #suicide squad #swishy aus #blah

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Dinah Laurel Lance (Katie Cassidy) in Arrow 7x15 Training Day (2019) Directed by Ruba Nadda 5/ 5

#dinah laurel lance #e2 laurel lance #katie cassidy #arrowedit #ben turner #michael jai white #nocticola art #7x15 training day #ruba nadda #female directors

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if it’s one thing Harley gon do it’s be cute and swing a massive hammer Harley Quinn 2022 Annual

#harleen quinzel #harley quinn #dc comics #luke fox #ben turner #verdict #HQ vol 4 #harley quinn annual #dc

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Suicide Squad #13 (1988) by John Ostrander & Luke McDonnell

#black canary #bronze tiger #ben turner #dinah lance #benjamin turner #dinah laurel lance #suicide squad #john ostrander #luke mcdonnell #dc #dc comics #80s comics #80s #comics

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Bronze Tiger Profile from Who's Who in the DC Universe (1990) #9

By Robert Greenberger, Luke McDonnell, Geof Isherwood & Anthony Tollin

#ben turner #bronze tiger #suicide squad #dc #dc comics #who's who #who's who in the dc universe #robert greenberger #luke mcdonnell #geof isherwood #anthony tollin

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Collage Squad (2023)

Collage Squad ☠️ I spend so much time on my illustration, that sometimes it's fun as an artist to diversify a bit and focus on your design skills. I had a lot of fun mapping out on my layout, and I feel like I made something new out of something classic. This work is an homage to Howard Chaykin's cover art for Suicide Squad #1 (1987).

You can commission me here!

And find me on Redbubble

Original under the cut

#suicide squad #release the ayer cut #enchantress #june moon #captain boomerang #digger harkness #bronze tiger #ben turner #killer frost #crystal frost #louise lincoln #caitlin snow #deadshot #floyd lawton #harley quinn #rick flag #rick flagg #rick flag jr #katana #tatsu yamashiro #flash #flash cw #arrow #arrow cw #batman #dc #dceu #dc comics #dc in the 80s #jon ostrander

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Characters to expect coming up in Suicide Squad #1, out June 22nd!

The Wall (Amanda Waller)

Flag (Rick Flag Jr.)

Bronze Tiger (Ben Turner)

Count Vertigo (Werner Vertigo)

Multiplex (Danton Black)

Virtuoso (Susanne Stroh)

Nightshade (Eve Eden)

Doctor Poison (Marina Maru)

Black King (Max Lord)

B3 (Vera Lee)

Cain (David Cain)

#lineups #Suicide Squad #DC Uninterrupted #Amanda Waller #Rick Flag #Bronze Tiger #Ben Turner #Count Vertigo #Werner Vertigo #Multiplex #Danton Black #Virtuoso #Nightshade #Eve Eden #Doctor Poison #Marina Maru #Max Lord #Vera Lee #David Cain