Harley Quinn Black + White + Red #6

[cyberghostface]

"From the pages of Sean Murphy’s BATMAN: WHITE KNIGHT, a sneak peek at the upcoming spinoff series BATMAN: WHITE KNIGHT PRESENTS HARLEY QUINN! Harley looks back on the night of her first arrest by Batman. In the heat of one of her earliest escapades with the Joker, Harley’s high spirits are tanked and she gets a cold glimpse of the chaos to come when violence escalates and their heist is crashed by Batman and Robin. Forced to save face or take the high road, Harley makes a choice that will cement her unspoken bond with Batman for years to come." -- DC Comics

Comments

[scelestus]

This is really, really cool.

[cainofdreaming]

Yeah, though the twist at the end made me go "Oh, come on!".

[lbd_nytetrayn]

I know, right? Salads instead of pizza? Who even does that?

[redmagpie]

I'm not on board with everything in the Murphyverse but this does feel like an interesting pairing. And honestly given how much of it takes after the animated series it's just nice that Babs/Bruce isn't the angle he's going for.

[kurenai_tenka]

'And honestly given how much of it takes after the animated series it's just nice that Babs/Bruce isn't the angle he's going for'

Amazing how this totally sold me.

[quatoria]

I like this a lot! I also love that Harleen is an established and popular enough character that we now have something like four or five different popular versions of her. Bombshells Harley, White Knight, Suicide Squad, and the Harley of her solo comic and cartoon series. (Which I would argue took it's lead on tone & content fairly directly from the Conner & Palmiotti series)

[silverhammerman]

I'm kind of surprised that Murphy's White Knight imprint is apparently going ahead, I thought that some of his... social connections... might result in DC to wanting to ditch the whole thing. I guess at least this means that we'll still get a chance to see his troop-cop-Batman take on Jason Todd, and I think that will be fascinating, if not actually good..

This is... fine. I don't like Murphy's writing, and I think the attempt at a meet-cute between Batman and Harley Quinn is kind of thuddingly obvious, in the way that Murphy's writing always is. Moreover, for as much as Harley Quinn is clearly Murphy's favorite character, it's utterly bizarre that his opening move was to establish that every take on the character besides his own had literally been an impersonator, a conceit which I thought was cool at the time, but find increasingly off-putting.

[cyberghostface]

He's not a Comicsgate supporter and the controversy was minimal that they're not going to can what has been a hugely successful imprint over it.

[silverhammerman]

True, I was remembering some of his dubious old comments about how White Knight wasn't going to be a social justice thing, but I think he's been distant from all the Comicsgate people for quite some time. Which is a very good thing.