DCEU: 10 Comics It Must Adapt To Beat Marvel

9. Suicide Squad: From The Ashes

James Gunn's firing from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 proved to be Marvel's loss and DC's gain, as the writer/director is now attached to helm a new version of the Suicide Squad for Warner Bros. in the coming years.

Dubbed simply 'The Suicide Squad', this new iteration of the team will supposedly leave behind most of the first film's cast in favour of a brand-new lineup. Will Smith is out as Deadshot, Idris Elba is in, and while it's still unconfirmed as to whether or not Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn will appear, given the renewed focus on the character, one would expect her to feature in one way or another.

Again, as with Batman, there are plenty of brilliant Suicide Squad stories Gunn could look to for inspiration. Perhaps the best, though, would be From the Ashes, a comic helmed by Suicide Squad creator John Ostrander.

The main problem with the first film (apart from the jarring soundtrack and cumbersome editing), was that it didn't really justify the Squad's creation. Pretty much any super-team could go ahead and deal with a public world-ending sky-portal, whereas the Squad are usually deployed to handle more covert matters. How better to go back to basics, then, than with the original creator's book?