Saturday 23 September 2017

Harley's Little Black Book Review



Finished reading Harley's Little Black Book, spinning out of the pages of the main Harley Quinn series as writers Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti teams Harley up with an array of heroes from the DC universe. The book opens with Harley and her friends stopping the transport of some toxic chemicals that was on route to England in hope to use on Wonder Woman witch leads to Harley traveling to London in hope to meet her hero and help Wonder Woman. The next story sees Harley buying her own lantern ring of the internet that is a combination of a red and black lantern ring. Once it arrives and Harley try's the ring on Hal Jordan's own lantern ring instantly becomes aware of it, prompting Hal to travel to Coney Island. The third story has Harley teaming up with Zatanna when a group of ghosts try to make her building there new home as its the only place they can be save from a demon hunting them down. The following story see Harley traveling to DC's Bombshells universe as Harley is mistaken for the Bombshells counterpart as she along with the universe versions of Batwoman and Big Barda go on a mission to a German occupied castle in an alternative World War Two. The penultimate story sees Harley meeting Superman when an alien armada comes to Earth with Superman stopping them from attacking Earth by agreeing to fight their champion however with Harley wanting to fight as well, the two end up having to fight each other in a boxing match to decide. The last story of the book sees Harley teleporting to an intergalactic space ship with a large group of intergalactic criminals on board which Lobo plans to have the rewards for each alien. Only for Harley to open the ship's door killing nearly everyone on board and landing onto Lobos bike when he blows the ship up which leads to the two crash landing on a nearby planet. Overall this was a great book as it allows for the writers of the main Harley Quinn series to have Harley interact with heroes for the rest of the DC universe by make the book able to stand alone from the main series, which makes it very assessable to new readers. While also keeping to the same tone and style of the comedy and character within the main series making it a nice addition to readers of the Harley Quinn series. The art within the book is great as begins with the with the art styles of the main series that works extremely well with the story's being told which also keeping to the aesthetic the Harley's home. While the later half to the book brings in artists that accompany the characters that Harley is with as artists Neal Adams and Simon Bisley take the rains for the Superman and Lobo story's respectively which is a very nice touch to the book as the two have been attached to the characters before. 8/10.

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