"It's straight up vertical combat" Samoa Joe talks Suicide Squad Kill The Justice League, Twisted Metal, AEW title contenders, and more (Exclusive)

Suicide Squad Kill The Justice League is coming soon, starring AEW champion Samoa Joe. Ahead of the game’s January 2024 release date, I had the good fortune to sit down with the Samoan Submission Machine to talk about a wide variety of topics concerning the game.

We also talked about his future in acting and professional wrestlers whom he’d like to make tap out if they come for his title. He’s an effortlessly cool man who perfectly embodies the nature of King Shark in the upcoming DC title.

It’s not his only acting credit, though, as he also recently embodied Sweet Tooth in Twisted Metal, which we also discussed. There are few people who are both as menacing and verbose as Samoa Joe is, so it was a real pleasure to break down the nuances that went into King Shark in Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League.

Samoa Joe: Yes, I mean, you know, I kind of have a working knowledge of mostly DC. You know, the Suicide Squad, especially in the last couple of decades, is really kind of coming into its own. Yeah, I mean, it's always been a title that I've kind of enjoyed reading and picking up and seeing whatever different team-ups were going on at the time. So yeah, I'd say so.

Samoa Joe: No. And I'm not sad about that. Because, you know, the writers at Rocksteady really put together a very fun, definitely more complex character than most people are used to seeing in King Shark. No, he's a very naive, very smart book-read individual. But you know, he just he's, he's naive to the world.

He hasn't experienced it. And he's very much excited to kind of finally be out in the open and getting to see all the things he's read about in person. And he does his best, but sometimes that enthusiasm bubbles to the surface and just kind of comes out