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by Nicole Maines (Author), Eddy Barrows (Illustrator)
Amanda Waller is expanding Task Force X...and she's about to create her Dream team.
Spinning out of the pages of Action Comics #1060 and Titans: Beast World World Tour Metropolis #1, Amanda Waller is recruiting for Task Force X. She knows she needs the best of the best--heroes, villains...it doesn't really matter. The first person she's determined to recruit? Nia Nal, a.k.a Dreamer. Who else will Waller pursue? And what is she planning for once she's assembled her DREAM TEAM? Find out in Suicide Squad: Dream Team written by Nicole Maines, who played Dreamer in the Supergirl TV show!Author Biography
Nicole Maines is an actress, activist, and writer paving the way for LGBTQ+ youth on and off the screen. Maines's breakout role came on The CW's Supergirl, where she starred as Nia Nal, a.k.a. Dreamer, making her TV's first transgender Super Hero. She wrote Dreamer's comic book debut in DC's 2021 Pride anthology and has since gone on to pen numerous other comics for DC, including Superman: Son of Kal-El #13 with Tom Taylor, Lazarus Planet: Assault on Krypton #1, Harley Quinn, and DC's upcoming Dreamer YA graphic novel. Maines has been nominated for a GLAAD Media Award and was a Variety Power of Young Hollywood and Power of Pride honoree. She was also a 2020 Human Rights Campaign Upstander Award honoree for her activism and continues to be a tireless champion for trans rights. Her biography, Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family, was a Stonewall Honor Book in nonfiction, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for transgender nonfiction, and a New York Times bestseller.
