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INFERIOR FIVE #1

ONCE a parody superhero team, the Inferior Five relaunch this week in a brand new adventure.

Most of the Inferior Five were based on popular DC characters and at one point were intended to be the children of members of the Freedom Brigade, themselves a parody of the Justice League of America.

Reimagined for a new generation, the miniseries portrays a group of misfit kids who are the only ones to notice strange things going on in Dangerfield, Arizona.

Written by Keith Giffen and Jeff Lemire, with art by Keith Giffen and Michelle Delecki, Inferior Five #1 is out now priced £3.60.

WHO’S IN THE SQUAD?

THERE were ripples around the internet this week when

James Gunn, right, revealed the full cast of The Suicide Squad. But the director has warned fans not to believe everything they read.

Taking to Twitter, Gunn said: “Some characters will get out. Some already have (although some reported on, including from reputable sources, have been very wrong). But, in all honesty, I don’t know if we’ll officially release character info for a long long while to come.”

Among the big names on the cast list are Nathan Fillion, Joel Kinnaman, Taika Waititi, Peter Capaldi, Viola Davis, Idris Elba, Margot Robbie and Michael Rooker. We don’t know what roles they’ll be playing, but the actors are enough to get excited about.

TAKING A STAND

THE success of IT and Pet Sematary has film-makers scrambling for Stephen King stories. The latest big adaptation is The Stand, being made by Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars) and news is that Alexander Skarsgard, above, best known for his roles as vampire Eric Northman in True Blood and Brad Colbert in Generation Kill, will play villain Randall Flagg.

He joins Whoopi Goldberg, James Marsden and Amber Heard on the show which will have a different ending from the book, written by King himself.