HARLEY QUINN, VOLUME 1: HOT IN THE CITY (DC Comics, October 2014) Hardcover, 224 pages. ISBN # 1401248926 / 9781401248925
Fresh from BATMAN: DEATH OF THE FAMILY and SUICIDE SQUAD, Harley Quinn returns to her first solo series in the New 52!
The writing team of Jimmy Palmiotti (ALL STAR WESTERN) and Amanda Conner (BEFORE WATCHMEN: SILK SPECTRE) unleashed Harley on an unsuspecting DC Universe, as she encounters various heroes and villains ... and leaves no one unscathed in her wake! With art by Chad Hardin and a slew of comics' best artists including Darwyn Cooke, Sam Kieth, Tony S. Daniel, Paul Pope, Walter Simonson and Art Baltazar!
Collects HARLEY QUINN #0-8.
My Three-Star review on the Goodreads website . . . . .
I liked this better than I thought I would. I had not read any solo Harley Quinn adventures prior to this, but it's hard to avoid running across the various titles featuring her if you frequent comic shops.
The team of Jimmy Palmiotti and Amada Conner do a bang-up job of keeping things light and humorous, in a slapstick vein. Rather than interact with the various DC heroes and villains (aside from Poison Ivy) these stories have Harley becoming a landlord, getting jobs with a roller derby team and a nursing home, and assisting a banged-up retired secret agent eliminate his old foes.
What was very different and fun to read was the #0 issue, where various artists put their individual spin on the character one page at a time. The fourth wall is broken as Harley converses with the writers and artists as they depict her adventures.
This collects the first nine issues of this particular iteration of Harley Quinn. While I enjoyed this, it became a bit underwhelming and less entertaining as I read this across two days. Less would probably be more. I recommend you read just two issues worth at a time, and then come back to it later.
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