Siren Scorned
I'm backkkkkkkk! that's right you can't keep a good reviewer down or away from his villianess' and if i'd known it was this good i would of kicked myself into high gear to get this issue sooner. But lets get past reintroductions I'm here to talk about the wild Gotham Sirens.
Plot
So after taking down her entire colleagues and bent on taking down the Joker, Harley continues her rampage and gets to her ultimate goal. Meanwhile Ivy proves why of all her vegetables she is an onion! (because of the many layers you know sometimes she's good, sometimes bad oh you know) My Opinion
We start the issue off with Harley contemplating whether she would be remembered for anything mainly her insanity, and it shows that she finally realizes and places the blame on the man whose made her the wack job she is and it finally shows she's going to make him pay. We start off with Director Aaron trying to stop his once friend from making a big mistake but Harley explains the importance of the trump with a rusty nail Joker used to kill his first child. Now lets freeze this scene oh my gosh this scene is so powerful it shows just how evil and conniving the Joker is. If anyone had been in the similar situation we would give Harley the keys and made sure she went and did and shot both if she didn't! Meanwhile we get to a little cat batting around a vine so if you didn't like i had forgotten while reading, Azarael and The Crusaders are going around testing Batman Inc (is this around the same time? oh well someone anal enough will correct me). So Catwoman has another duty to her bat-family and Harley said back off right? See this is a real conundrum best friends would be there no matter what like Selina was but, when the family you've known for so long and know all there secrets needs you more, what is a person to do. Either way she chooses the latter leaving a hurt Ivy leading us to another powerful scene I've been waiting for since the beginning of this series (remember these are harden women villians it was bound to happen) The sirens break up. The last scene that nails the final part home Joker and Harley are back together (Good God (¬_¬)). Now here's my thing wasn't Joker in england playing good detective killing the royal flush gang (?) how did he end up back here so fast?
You see this is my thing about the "death" or banishment to character limbo of main characters, they try to show characters and how they deal with it give them something to do and sometimes its good like Gotham Sirens sometimes its awful that one issue of X-Men where Magneto came back and fought everyone at a funeral, but once that character returns everything has to revolve around those characters and changes to fall in line behind there story such as Gotham Sirens Catwoman was back in effect here in sirens but as soon as Bats came back she turned back into his Womanly counterpart, Harley was strong and almost childlike a personality now she's going back to "Oh Mr J...Ahhh don't hurt me" It's just nerve racking do original writers have any say over these things I'm sure Dini is aware but honestly does in shake his head in disgust or go right on dude with stuff like this? It doesn't matter it'll be all over later.
Now as for the art its pretty good but some characters look strange namely Batman but, my main problem with the art was Joker why are they iterating his dark knight makeup here come on it was disgusting then it looks gross now but i do give props for that beautiful twisted scene during the memories montage it was dark and sad but so effective giving reason why Harley would go back and i think thats enough for anyone to go back on certain things they know aren't good for them but remember the memories so fondly (Yes even acohol and some drugs....some)
Verdict
4.0 out 5.0