COMICS: Suicide Squad #1 Includes An All New Amanda Waller!

COMICS: Suicide Squad #1 Includes An All New Amanda Waller!

The all new look, and unexpected, for Amanda Waller character on the rebooted DC Universe came as a suprise this week on Suicide Squad #1. Check more after the jump!

By LucasMend - Sep 17, 2011 08:09 AM EST
Filed Under: DC Comics
Source: Bleeding Cool


This week DC comics character Amanda Waller new look was revealed for the rebooted universe on the last page of Suicide Squad #1. Amanda Waller, is now a skinny hot young babe.

Waller was a part of the Legend series in the eighties, she led the Suicide Squad which containned super villains, and worked for the government doing what superheroes would not do. She was one of the few DC female characters that was overweight.

But recently at Green Lantern we saw a version of Waller that wasn't exactly as the comic apart. Apparently the reboot DC Universe took some influence from the movie.

Writer of Suicide Squad Adam Glass, has talked with Bleeding Cool about the criticism, saying that this is a rebooted, younger Amanda Waller at the start of her career:

Amanda Waller is not defined by her size but by her attitude and she still has plenty of that.


If you don't know Amanda Waller, here is a brief description of the character:

Nicknamed "the Wall", she is a former congressional aide and government agent often placed in charge of the Suicide Squad, a semi-secret government-run group of former supervillains working in return for amnesty. She later served as Secretary of Metahuman Affairs under President Lex Luthor, before being arrested in the wake of Luthor's public fall from grace. Waller was recently reassigned to the leadership of Checkmate as White Queen, but has been forced to resign because of her involvement in Operation Salvation Run.


Amanda Waller appeared on the Green Lantern movie, in the television show Justice League Unlimited, the animated movie Superman/Batman: Public Enemies and Pam Grier played Amanda Waller in the ninth season of Smallville.

Thanks Wikipedia for the additional information of the character.

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Hellsing
Hellsing - 9/17/2011, 8:56 AM
WOW wasn't expecting
jazzman
jazzman - 9/17/2011, 9:08 AM
Amanda Waller looks like 100% Angela Bassett.
Hellsing
Hellsing - 9/17/2011, 9:23 AM
I don't even know why they tried to make Angela Bassett look ugly in GL movie, should have just made her look like this
TerminatorMode
TerminatorMode - 9/17/2011, 9:31 AM
ahahaha i love how the main criticism of this is she's too skinny - the change may very well have a meaningful impact on the story...at least i hope otherwise the change was pointless - mb it's so that she can join them in the field from time to time???
Superheromoviefan
Superheromoviefan - 9/17/2011, 9:45 AM
WOW she is hot
wyokid
wyokid - 9/17/2011, 10:00 AM
[frick] you DC!
Supes17
Supes17 - 9/17/2011, 10:00 AM
Amanda Waller=Hot?
Universe collapses :p
Spilox
Spilox - 9/17/2011, 10:25 AM
I liked the character Waller as an obese woman, it gave her a more menacing look, made her someone you don't want to piss off.
StuckInPanels
StuckInPanels - 9/17/2011, 11:04 AM


Nuff said.
Coloso
Coloso - 9/17/2011, 1:45 PM
apparently you do fear or you wouldn't have brought it up, lol.
Checkmate
Checkmate - 9/17/2011, 1:58 PM
Fat Waller FTW.
Thunderkutfo
Thunderkutfo - 9/17/2011, 3:49 PM
Hmm...Evidently someone called 1-800-20-jenny!!!
One2three
One2three - 9/17/2011, 4:03 PM
Shes not grossly obese anymore, right on.
So anyone know what DC's gonna do with Dr. Fate in the
DCnU? Maybe a solo comic or on another team? We need
more Fate!
Phlegmbot
Phlegmbot - 9/18/2011, 1:55 PM
@ Froggy: The problem is that the change makes no sense.

The psychology of her character comes from what she looks like. It's b/c of what she looks (looked) like that she's got a chip on her shoulder (in part); it's b/c of what she looks like she's called The Wall (no, it's not just b/c of her name); and, as anyone can tell you, your personality is shaped in part by your looks -- a beauty queen who can have life handed to her on a silver platter doesn't work in this kind of role.

And, if you read the first issue, the story actually doesn't even make sense. The reveal of her is at the end and it actually renders the story utterly ridiculous (never mind that it was gruesome in a miserable and over-the-top way) -- even for a comic called Suicide Squad.

I like the idea of the DCnU; haven't loved the execution. So far, all I'm seeing are ultra-violent stories which make little-to-no sense with few exceptions (Men of War, Swamp Thing, Superboy among those exceptions).
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