It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s… a group of monsters stopping international crises at the behest of the American government? The highly anticipated DC Universe, James Gunn and Peter Safran’s attempt to reboot the superhero franchise, will truly begin with Gunn’s Superman, which feels like a natural starting point — the Man of Steel, after all, is the very first superhero. But the DCU is getting off to a much more unlikely start with a show about a group of inhuman supervillains forcibly compelled by Amanda Waller (Viola Davis, reprising her role from The Suicide Squad) to work off-the-books.
Creature Commandos, created and written by James Gunn, is the first official DCU project, preceding Superman by nearly a year. So, does it set the tone for the much-anticipated DCU? Not really.
