Jody Houser (w) Adriana Melo (a)
One of the more popular recent creations in comic books (most major characters originated back in the forties!) is Harley Quinn and rightly so as her adventures are a light relief from the dark DC Universe that exists these days.
This story takes place after the Heroes in Crisis mini-series which I collected but stopped reading because frankly I thought it wasn't good enough. The fact that the problem with Poison Ivy spins out of that can be safely ignored. The reader just needs to know she died, well sort of.
I actually remember and purchased a copy of Ivy's first appearance back in the sixties, one of a whole number of key issues I didn't hang on to sadly. Still got hold of the facsimile edition! Since then Ivy has progressed both as a character and in power to something a lot different and a connection to "the Green" on a "Swamp Thing" level.
The Floronic Man (or Moronic man as Harley puts it) is their trail and wants Ivy for his own nefarious purposes. Love that word "nefarious" a word I picked up from comics back in my schooldays, and they say comics aren't educational.
The Road Trip begins and the girls end up trying to get help from the Mad Hatter of all people. Not going to go well that one. The duo also run into Batwoman when New York is attacked by plants and Ivy wrongly gets the blame. Harley keeps telling Kate that she wants to be a hero but does the Batwoman listen, well eventually.
An entertaining story that was originally published as a six issue miniseries. This hardback edition comes with a gallery of all the covers including variants.
Rating: 4.5 Stars. (Recommended)
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