Suicide Squad: Dream Team

In 2024, DC launched Suicide Squad: Dream Team, a miniseries by writer Nicole Maines and artist Eddy Barrows that reimagines the classic black-ops formula through a supernatural lens. The premise sends a new squad of expendable villains into the dreamscape of the cosmic entity known as the Dream King, where their psychological vulnerabilities become deadly weapons. Maines, the first transgender writer to helm a major DC ongoing series, brings a fresh perspective to the franchise's familiar themes of coercion and survival. This short run matters for its inventive blending of the Suicide Squad's gritty espionage with the surreal, mind-bending territory of the Sandman mythos.