A fanservice comic
Plot:
The plot is simple: Harley Quinn tries to adopt some pets from a pet adoption center in order to save them from euthanasia. She fails and calls her old pal Poison Ivy for help. They decide to free them in a PETA fashion. Pets escape and Harley decides to lure them in her new house with some fresh meat. And by meat she means feeding them a hitman that was hired to kill her. We have a couple of lesbian not-so innuendos with Poison Ivy and the introduction of yet another character, Madame Macabre, the owner of a wax museum about serial killers.
The problems:
Harley and Ivy haven't had a single line together since the reboot and suddenly they're bffs. Harley is still in love with the Joker even if he tried to kill her. In the freaking previous issue. The writers are ignoring everything they don't want to acknowledge from New52 continuity and don't offer an explanation about what is happening. Unfunny jokes. Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy are completely out of character. The beaver joke was of really bad taste. The art looks suspiciously traced in some parts.
Conclusion:
I can't believe they canceled the excellent Lil Gotham which had some classic Harley, Ivy and Selina moments to give us this. There are two problems about this book. It's not funny for a comedy book and it's too confusing and out of continuity for a canon Bat-title. This is a real mess. It's hard to believe this comes from the same people who brought us Power Girl.
What's even stranger is that big comic book sites are giving it a 10/10, don't notice the obvious problems with it and call it “the comic book of the month” while comic podcasts and indie reviewers give it much lower rankings. I smell something fishy.
If you want some quality Harley and Ivy interaction look for Lil Gotham or the classic Harley and Ivy or even the previous Harley Quinn series.
