by The Wanderer
Authors: Jimmy Palmiotti
Illustrators: Amanda Conner and Chad Hardin
Publisher: DC
Genre: Superhero
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One of the two greatest character creations from Batman: The Animated Series, Harley Quinn gets her own comic as part of DC’s New 52 relaunch. Thus far I have not been a fan of DC’s New 52 comics, they’ve been decent at best, and sadly this comic is no different. Below is back-cover quote from Amazon about the plot:
“Fresh from BATMAN: DEATH OF THE FAMILY and SUICIDE SQUAD, Harley Quinn returns to her first solo series in the New 52! The writing team of Jimmy Palmiotti (ALL STAR WESTERN) and Amanda Conner (BEFORE WATCHMEN: SILK SPECTRE) unleashed Harley on an unsuspecting DC Universe, as she encounters various heroes and villains … and leaves no one unscathed in her wake! With art by Chad Hardin and a slew of comics’ best artists including Darwyn Cooke, Sam Kieth, Tony S. Daniel, Paul Pope, Walter Simonson and Art Baltazar!”
Two things should immediately standout with this quote. One: there’s no mention of a plot … because guess what … there isn’t much of a plot (only a weak shadow of one). Two: there are a lot of artists mentioned here, a lot more than you will find in any other typical comic.
