This bombastic debut issue features art by award-winning illustrators including Darwyn Cooke, Sam Kieth, Tony S. Daniel, Paul Pope, Walter Simonson, Art Baltazar and others - but will any of them measure up to the exacting standards of the Clown Princess of Crime? Don't miss the thrilling return of Harley Quinn in her own monthly series!
by DC Comics
Published January, 2014 (Modern Age) by DC Comics and went on sale November 20, 2013 for $2.99 USD. This issue contains 32 pages in Color, the current NM value is $12.00 USD. The publisher has rated this issue T (12+).
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Harley Quinn getting to choose the artist for her own title is an interesting idea, and this issue does do an acceptable job of showing off the work of different artists. Another positive: the issue has some entertaining realism in showing how Harley lives. The biggest negative, though: Some of the humor is pretty humorless, and none of it is laugh out loud funny. Moreso, the premise of the jokes are often inside jokes relating to the comics industry. I'm sure the creators find it amusing, but maybe not so much for average readers. All of this adds up to a pretty average comic.
5 out of 10 - There is some fun here, but the fourth wall breakage just wasn't fun enough for me. I don't think we will really know what this series will be like until we really get into it. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Harley has had a series before and it ranged from fun to dark (I believe she was stuck in Hell at one point and pursued her greed at the expensive of a little girl's eyesight). I think other series have done more interesting things with their Zero issues, but it was interesting to see how different artists interpret her.
Fun read, can't wait for issue #1
Pretty fun ride for a single issue.
A really, super-cool story from Jimmy Palmiotti & Amanda Conner about Harley Quinn's new comic series that launches soon. The entire book is a dialogue between Harley & her new writers about how her new series should look & feel. It comes off as being a female version of Deadpool except that she is fully aware of her writers & the story's setting, direction, theme & tone change nearly every other page. The artists change every other page as well with 17 different artists contributing to this comic. What you get in the end is a very unique book that certainly stands out from the rest of the DC lineup. The storytelling is interesting in it's own right but it's the art that really showcases here. While it's not all great it really stands out.