![]() The only difference is Harley seems to have some understanding that she should be trying to be good now, but it’s in the sort of shallow way where she’s trying to be good because the adults told her she should be, but still doesn’t really have much connection to reality or the real gravity of her wrong doing.īut Sam, on the other hand, really isn’t a character I can root for either. She was and is still a looney toon who did things for fun and completely lacked self awareness and consideration of the people she was hurting. We get to see Harley, or Stephanie Phillips depiction of Harley, back in her days of villainy in this story, and she’s not a whole lot different than she is in current day. On the one hand, Sam kind of has a point. She rails against the Gotham City system as so many others have done for decades with how it is for releasing the criminals of Arkham, and allowing someone like Harley Quinn to run amuck calling herself a hero. She murdered a corrupt cop and went on to kill anyone she thought deserved it. ![]() Sam/Verdict explains that she was spurred to go on her killing spree after discovering the corruption in the GCPD. How can you have one comic where Harley claims her relationship with Joker was just abuse and neglect 24/7 and then have the following comic claim Joker would go through the trouble of buying out corrupt police officers to set her free? The problem isn’t just the writing in this comic, it’s just the inconsistency of the story as a whole.Īnyway, there’s actually not a whole lot to talk about for the rest of the story. I think that their relationship works best when writers allow for it to have nuance rather than just be a one note “Joker just doesn’t give a thought to Harley, ever.” The problem though, is that that’s exactly how their relationship was made out to be in the last issue. On a side note, I don’t have a problem with Joker being the one to give Harley an escape. The jester suit should never look ugly like that. It looks weird with Harley’s domino mask seeming to be like a rim around Harley’s eyes. I’d like to point out also that I really don’t like the way Rossmo draws Harley in the Jester suit. She really doesn’t have a thought in her head during any of this, and Joker is the one who pays off the cops to let her escape. I thought that there was going to be some sort of narrative purpose for this, like Harley would be revealed to be acting like this all on purpose to orchestrate a crazy escape, and show she’s smarter than people estimate her to be, but no. We’re meant to believe that Harley was just SO annoying (that she wouldn’t stop singing and talking) that it caused the higher-ups to want her transferred to an insane asylum. I complained about it just being nonsensical, unfunny, random chatter in the last issue, and that continues here. First of all, I can’t believe how far down Harley’s dialogue keeps falling. But, unfortunately, Harley’s writing is still really terrible. After struggling to complete the last issue, I was actually invested in this one, curious as to what would be revealed. I don’t have a problem with Sam’s writing during this sequence. Apparently, Joker pays off some of the other police officers to free Harley, and her violent escape causes Sam to be injured and her partner to be killed. She’s revealed to be an ex-cop who was once tasked with transporting Harley to Arkham Asylum after Harley was found to be too annoying in prison (I’m not joking, more on that later). ![]() So we’re meant to believe, based on the beginnings of this issue, that Verdict isn’t all bad despite her actions. ![]() Well, it’s interesting, because Harley Quinn #16 barely focuses on Harley at all, and it is dedicated to Verdict (A.K.A Sam) explaining Verdict’s backstory. However, I’ve sort of had my eye on Harley Quinn #16 for a while, since Stephanie Phillips proclaimed it to be the “most favorite issue she’s written yet.” That’s gotta mean something, right? ![]() The last issue of Harley Quinn, I said, was the worst issue I had read so far in the entire run. It really disappoints me going from that to the current Harley Quinn run where the character is so poorly written and so far away from her origins that she’s unrecognizable. Willow Wilson’s Poison Ivy so much as a great return to Poison Ivy’s roots (no pun intended). You know, I enjoyed the first issue of G. ![]()
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