The society is formed and all those who oppose are enemies of the society...and this is where we find our rag tag of 6 villains who opposes the society and follow the orders of the mysterious Checkmate; trying to take down the Society with a well organized group of B to D list villains. There’s spy within the group, a member does, and their beneficiary, Checkmate, abandons them, and, despite all of this, they stay as a mercenary group and walk between the lines of good and bad. They fight doom patrol and vandal savage and dr psycho. Mad hatter gets his moment to shine but gets pushed off a building hehe

70% of this book was forgettable and confirmed my bias of Gail Simone’s ability to write above average book. Most of the book was so surface level in characters and lacked the realism that I really like in books...she is like comics of old but with M content where i almost consider it adult campy (if that means anything)...but my early bias was mistaken with the last 30% of the book where I see now people like her. The Vandal savage plot was focused and had an unexpected villain, Mad Hatter, shine amazingly. Brad walker really brought her story to life and I hope that the stories will follow suite in this regard of storytelling

Best:
-Mad hatter defeating Dr psycho
-Knockout being burned alive and regenerating from her bed
-the torture scene and breaking out of their prison

Bad:
-most of this book was so hard to get through due to surface level writing and lack of interesting characters
-jokes fell flat
-characters seemed forced of how bad ass they are than them actually being bad ass
-the constant reminder of character tropes
-lack of clear or weak motivation ( )