Deadshot is dead. The solicit and cover for Suicide Squad #9 made that clear several months ago, and the actual arrival of the issue fulfills that promise—there is no apparent fake out in these pages, at least not in regards to the demise of Floyd Lawton. Even as someone who has loved the character since discovering him in quarter-bin Suicide Squad back issues almost two decades ago, this issue earns the “shock value” surrounding a death in superhero comics. What happens in these pages reads as a faithful commitment to both the series’ ongoing story and the character who serves as its centerpiece: a man haunted by a lifetime of bad decisions and violence believing he deserves only death, but still tied to his life by a few precious threads.