100% agree. I think DC’s desperate desire to portray stories that are “progressive” has made them lose sight of which stories are TRUE, or at least, repeated lived experience. In most true stories the hero doesn’t get his One True Love. In most true stories, the abused girl doesn’t overcome her abuser, she just leaves…

Paul Dini’s Harley is indeed genius. If Harley is to stay in a high place in the Bat-mythos, however, she must be vast and contain multitudes. Cesar Romero Joker and Mark Hamill Joker can coexist with Ledger’s version and Alan Moore’s interpretation. Hell, even Bat-mite learned that Brave & the Bold Batman is just as…

Thank you, random internet friend, for so aptly describing the catastrophe recent writers have turned the relationship that is Joker and Harley into. It was always meat to be catastrophic, not a perpetual catastrophe.

Is DC trolling Deviantart for talent now or something? This is some horrible writing and artwork. = \

I wanted to disagree with you, but...

I kind of got a more Thelma and Louise vibe from them in TAS, certainly nothing gratuitous, but I haven’t watched in forever. Am I forgetting something, does it explicitly show them hooking up? I’m all for it, just sort of wondering when they started walking around naked in front of one another. On TAS, Quinn did seem…

The current teams writing Joker and Harley have been pretty bad, and missing the point for years: their “relationship,” such as it is, is never over. That’s where the comedy and tragedy of it ring truest. And I don’t know who that is up there, but that isn’t the Joker. He’s some half-baked caricature of an abusive…

Am I crazy, or is this just read like fanfic.

this comic looks fucking awful, jesus.

I think that’s exactly what SavingPrincess is saying.

Came to say this exact thing. Doesn’t sound anything like ANY Joker, even the more truly psychotic versions. It sounds like they just wanted an excuse to have Harley been the Strong Female Character.

I was thinking the exact same thing. With Harley’s evolution as a character over the past decade or so I can see why she would hate The Joker now. But the way they write Joker in this, even at her most love-struck and dimwitted, there’s no point in Harley’s character history where this guy would have given her any…

This Joker seems less like the Joker and more like some fetish-ized abusive ex-boyfriend setup so the main character can show how strong she is now.

It is my long-standing claim that Harley Quinn has become the Deadpool of the DC universe. For example, I think that dog-poop catapult was flinging the dog poop into a room of 4th-wall-breaking comic book corporate executives.