Harley Quinn: Hot In The City Review

Finished reading Harley Quinn: Hot In The City by writing duo Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti bringing Harley Quinn to the forefront in her own series under DC comics New 52 line. The book opens up to a Fourth Wall breaking story as Harley decides to create here own comic book but can't decide who should draw her book as the writers begin to talk to Harley different artists "audition" for the job from comic veterans like Jim Lee and Walt Simonson to even her co creator Bruce Timm playing homage to the Batman Animated Series from the 90's. The end of the story has a lawyer telling Harley that one of her old patients at Arkham left her some real estate in Brooklyn. Once at Brooklyn Harley gets a job as therapist at the nearest care home and joins a local roller derby so she can pay her share of the bills, she finds out that there is a bounty on her head leading to Poison Ivy coming in to help with the assassin problem as well as helping Harley adopting a whole adoption centre of animals who take residence on a single floor of the building. After a hilarious valentines story Harley's begins here job as a therapist where she meets an old lady who tells Harley that her family only visits a couple times a year, without reading the lady's files which states she has Alzheimer's Harley literally beats some sense into the family. Back at the care home Harley meets with another patient named Syborg an ex government agent from the Cold War who enlists Harley's help to finish the job he started fifty years ago as they go and assassinate old KGB agents. After Poison Ivy comes back from discovering that Harley was the one who put the bounty on her head thanks to her sleepwalking at night, they crash an Assassin club house announcing that the bounty is a fake with some not believing her at first. The book ends with Harley unveiling a large catapult on the top of her building which is being use to get rid of the animals "poop" by catapulting it to the nearest landfill site but missing every time even hitting the offices of DC comics as the publishers and editors are in a meeting discussing about another reboot. Overall this is an amazing book as Harley Quinn's adventures are so hilarious some parts need a second read with a strait face to get back into the story. The book even reenacts famous scenes from Star Wars and Batman the Animated Series that are funny from the beginning because of knowing what's about to happen. 9.5/10.