Even though his rebooted DC Universe is only about a year old, James Gunn has already proven himself to be the best maker of superhero movies. He earns that title not just for his skills as a filmmaker, but also for his deep love of the weirder parts of superhero comics.

Anyone familiar with DC Comics of the 1980s can clearly see Gunn’s affinity for John Ostrander’s run on Suicide Squad . Not only was his first DC project an adaptation of that book, but that series developed Amanda Waller and introduced John Economos, mainstays of the new DCU. Gunn even cast Ostrander as a scientist for one scene of The Suicide Squad .

But the inclusion of Guy Gardner and Metamorpho in Superman underscores the importance of another superhero team from the same era as Suicide Squad , a

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