Harley & Ivy: Life & Crimes #1 – Erica Henderson, Writer/Artist
Ray – 9.5/10
Ray: Harley and Ivy have been a couple for a while in DC Comics, although that can be…variable depending on the writer. After all, Ivy is also involved in a very bizarre and complex relationship with Janet from HR (although that looks to be ending badly), while Harley has a strange love-hate thing going on with evil CEO Althea Klang. But when they’re together, they tend to be fan favorites – despite the fact that we’ve never actually seen them get together. Writer-Artist Erica Henderson is finally filling in that gap, with an issue set around the time of the New 52, with Harley reeling from yet another nasty, violent breakup with Joker. She’s brooding at the place where it all began, Ace Chemicals, as she wonders if she should just go back to Joker once again – when she gets an unexpected companion. Ivy is there – but she’s not looking to commiserate. She’s looking to blow the whole thing up.
Ivy’s brought some genetically engineered seeds that could raze the entire building to the ground, ending its pollution streak. But just like she’s unhealthily attached to Joker, Harley is just as fixated on the building where her transformation began. She fights Ivy, one of the seeds gets broken, and the place is overrun with vines. That’s around the time Joker shows up – a particularly vile version of Joker, the one with the detachable face. While Henderson’s art is generally cartoony, she manages to make her Joker viscerally repulsive – exactly as he should be. The issue is narrated by Harley and Ivy as they answer the viewer’s question of how they got together, bickering all the way, and it’s highly entertaining. Henderson tackling both roles makes the issue flow together in a unique way that you don’t often see in mainstream comics, and this is a highly entertaining start to a new evergreen series for these two.
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