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9 on Batman: Dark Patterns #1 - ReviewIf you’re anything like me (and, for both our sakes, I pray that you are not), you’re growing a little tired of the multiverse. It’s a pervasive trend throughout pop culture these days, and, despite whatever platitudes its advocates may evoke (i.e., “Anything goes! Anything is possible!”), it doesn’t suit every legacy character. And,…
If there was one thing I would have wanted from the previous run on Harley Quinn, it was a greater sense of narrative consistency. A story that’s bouncing all over the place can, of course, be more easily forgiven when its protagonist is someone who is often, quite literally, bouncing all over the place.…
A New Scene for Ms. Harleen When a new creative team hops onto an ongoing title, they’ve really got two options: do they continue with the narrative momentum of the old guard, hoping to deliver a seamless reader transition, or do they wipe the slate clean and announce their presence? It’s a new…
This month, officially Tini Howard says goodbye to Gotham City by wrapping up her run on its most colorful character. This last entrance into this chapter of Harley Quinn’s adventures is an extended exercise in duality, one which meticulously wraps up the run’s major plot points while revisiting its major themes of redemption through emotional…
I’m not a crook. I’ve never committed a crime worthy of a story. But I am from New Jersey. And when you’re born and raised in New Jersey, you come to learn a couple of things about how a great crime story should go. As I’ve mentioned in previous reviews of…
Let’s say you’re writing a four-part ensemble story. You’ve laid out maybe a dozen different elements in the forms of plot threads, character ideas, and avenues for social or political commentary. Your story is moving along at an entertainingly fast clip for the first three parts, and now your remaining challenge is to bring it…
Do you watch BreadTube-style video essays? I sure watch a hell of BreadTube-style videos essays, especially for someone who essentially has no idea what that means. I was simply told recently that I watch and enjoy a lot of BreadTube style video essays. One of the things you come to learn if you watch…
Last weak, faithful readers, we were witness to a good deal of gaming groundwork. This week, we really see things moving. Gotham City Sirens #2 is a real winner of a middle issue. Issue #1’s inciting reveal was that Punchline was behind the mysterious cyber-buffalo stampedes, and that the cartoonish futuristic Western violence running…
I’ve recently been spending a good deal of time with somebody who likes to describe things as “camp”. As in, a lot of things. At first, I had no idea what exactly he meant when he used the word. After my strategy of waiting around to see if any sort of pattern revealed itself failed,…
Well, that was predictable, now wasn’t it, Officer Pulaski? Last month, a semi-rogue GCDP Detective tried to cut a deal with one Harley Quinn, hoping she’d trade information on the Bat-Family in exchange for punitive leniency for those inevitable moments when she traipses back over to the wrong side of the law. But Officer…
In the ongoing game of costumed heroes and villains, most people live double lives, carefully balancing crucial information and protecting secret identities. Harley Quinn is not most people. So if the GCPD thinks they can force her to keep their secrets, they have another thing coming. Quit Buggin’ Me! This month’s Harley Quinn issue sees…
This month’s Penguin issue is a tale of two beatdowns. Luckily, the far more satisfying of the two beatdowns is the one we close things out with here in issue #11. I for one wish somebody would ask Tom King to get to the point. Tom King and Rafael De LaTorre’s twelve-issue Penguin' series has…
Since last we checked in with the talented Mr. Cobblepot, DC announced that Tom King’s “Penguin” series will come to an end after 12 issues. This doesn’t exactly come as any surprise. Given that the very first issue teases the end of the narrative, giving the book a “let’s look back and see how we…
Last month, I called the 2024 annual the Harley Quinn Book of the Year. Though that excellent outing was the product of a guest creative team, this reviewer has strong hopes that editorial can build on that momentum. We open with Harley meeting up once again with Mr. Freeze to discuss his ongoing offers for…
Hello everyone! Jack here, filling in for William on this month’s Batman and Robin review. After studying all week to try and remember which one is Batman and which one is Robin, I think I’m finally ready to give this a shot! Batman and Robin opens with Batman captured in Man-Bat’s lair (Man-Bat swears he’s…
I wish I could say I’m a sucker for a cruise ship mystery. It’s just that I can’t think of any. Luckily, writer/artist Erica Henderson is here to set sail on an absolute winner of an annual for Harls. This vacation adventure begins with Harley, after scoring big on a robbery that she wishes had…
Say what you will about Tom King, but he does know how to have a good time on a comics page. Even when the reader is not necessarily having a great time. One of King’s signature stylistic choices is the interplay of dialogue and text boxes. He can match their rhythms and themes in order…
When last we left the fantabulous Miss Harley Quinn, she was torn. Torn between a straight-and-narrow life of quasi-marital bliss with Ivy and a life of adventuring with some of Gotham’s less domesticated criminal element. It felt like both this title and the character were at a bit of a crossroads. Leave it to a…
Tom King’s love of flashbacks, non-linear storytelling, and other narrative tricks is well-documented. When he’s at his best (i.e. when he cools it with the allusions to classical literature), he’s a master visual and textual formalist, hitting soaring heights of drama and suspense by weaving timelines, points of view, and narrators either at breakneck speeds…
Harley Quinn #38 begins by giving us a day in the life of Professor Harleen Quinzel, living in romantic bliss with Poison Ivy and gleefully holding down a steady teaching job at Gotham Community College. It’s the type of quotidian, slice-of-life montage that passes by almost too rosily, leaving us to wonder when the other…
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