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1 on Harley Quinn #54 - ReviewsI have to give credit where credit is due. I have not been quiet about my dissatisfaction with this title. It has been somewhat of a repetitive slog, somehow simultaneously relying on gimmicky narrative overconceptualization and its main character’s basic, most recognizable shticks. It’s somehow been both too same-y and unnecessarily innovative. So when the…
After a playful, adventurous break for another installment of Gotham City Sirens, your favorite psycho psychiatrist is back to continue smashing the achingly modern twin threats of Unrequited Love and Gentrification. While baking pies for the upcoming Throatcutter hill neighborhood block party, asks her neighbors (as well as her possible-hallucination floating external brain) for advice…
Local politics are in the news this week here in good old NYC. The sun is blazing, the humidity is oppressing, but nothing can stop motivated New Yorkers from getting out there and doing their boring civic duty. Funny that local political procedure is at the center of this month’s Harley Quinn. Let’s just hope…
I don’t flatter myself by thinking that the authors of the titles I cover actually read my reviews consistently. I especially don’t flatter myself by thinking that if they did, they would take any of my constructive criticism to heart and adjust their stories based on my influence. But when I read the…
Spring is in the air here in the good old Northeast. It’s a time in which even the most drab, gray, desaturated urban surfaces can feel renewed— or at least unthawed. I also think it’s a perfect time for our monthly check in with Gotham’s Favorite Anti-Hero Psycho-Clown. After an Amadeus-Arkham-journal-style flashback from evil…
Every year, my New Year’s Resolution is to travel more. Then I remember that traveling on a student budget is impossible in this economy. So when I escape into a comforting comic book and see an undeniably hard-working character like Harley Quinn take a personal day and hide away in nature for a rest…
It’s freezing here in New York City. Unseasonably low temperatures, even for the end of January. Harsh winters can be a time for cozy, unchallenging reads. Luckily, with this 47th issue of the ongoing adventures of Harley Quinn, I can tick one of those boxes. We’re back to the square run of this…
Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls, loyal readers of Harley Quinn: it’s official. We have a gimmick on our hands. And it has arrived at a most disappointing time in the lifespan of any new run, when the new creative team is typically expected to establish a narrative or stylistic foothold for their title.…
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…
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…
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…
After 13 years, the Gotham City Sirens are back! For a little while, that is at least. The original Gotham City Sirens was created by Paul Dini in 2009 and quickly became a cult classic, though ended when DC's titles were rebooted in 2011 with the New 52. Now, this August, the ongoing comics of Harley…
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…
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…
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…
The creative team of writer Nicole Maines, penciler Eddy Barrows, inker Eber Ferreira, and colorist Adriano Lucas come together to bring to life a new iteration of Task Force X who go on a new mission that spins off from the Titans: Beast World storyline. For this new ongoing series, the hero Dreamer is the central…
This is it - my final review for Batman News (at least for now). I may, however, be doing an op-ed finalizing my thoughts on DC’s treatment of Harley Quinn. I love this character to death, at least the way she was supposed to be written. However, despite tanking sales and reader disinterest all around,…
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