Harley Quinn in Birds of Prey movie?

So apparently this is a thing now, instead of a Harley solo movie or that stupid Joker/Harley spin off concept. Is it a good idea? Probably not.

As we all know, DC has skipped all the solo movies and jumped straight into the team ups with Suicide Squad, Batman vs Superman and more recently Justice League. These movies have not been very well received critically.

Maybe they're desperately trying to avoid Marvel comparisons but when Marvel is doing nearly everything right and DC is giving us dumpster fires like Suicide Squad under the misguided notion that 'it's what the fans want!' it's hard NOT to compare the two.

Oh DC. Why can't you make your cinematic universe work? Why are you so insistent on cramming a tarted up imitation of Harley Quinn down our throats instead of working on actual scripts and plot lines? Sure, sex sells I guess but could you not use another DC bombshell instead of destroying Harley's entire character?

Suicide Squad? More like Harley Quinn and some other characters that sometimes do things.

I mean, Katana has a lot more history with the Birds of Prey than Harley does, if anyone should be forced into there from Suicide Squad, it should be her! 

To make things worse, this constant focus on group movies means that it WILL be Suicide Squad all over again, with no time for anyone but Maggot Robbie's flat ass. Let's be honest. It's not going to be a Birds of Prey movie.. it's going to be a Harley Quinn vehicle with some minor parts for what should be major freakin' characters like Oracle, Black Canary and Huntress. She's going to bend over again and again in her stupid hot pants and shit all over more characters I love, while quipping non funny lines in a stupid "I'm trying to be Harley Quinn!" voice.

Hands up who wants to ruin another movie!

We also get people going oh well, it's a huge step forward because it's going to have an indie female director and Maggot has a huge say in the script and etc etc.. Marvel has yet to do that!

Now that's a conflict and a half because YAY for progress but I'm apprehensive about Maggot basically having so much sway over this movie. Come on, has anyone looked at Will Smith's career? He started off good and slowly began having movies change to SUIT HIM instead of the other way around. AND he went on to be a terrible, TERRIBLE Deadshot.

I'll admit, I don't know too much about being a producer in the movie business. Maybe it's like getting a writing credit on on of Beyonce's songs, where you just have to walk past the door to get your name on the list. Maybe she won't have that much power. I don't know.

Retro Review: Harley Quinn #18

The Bride of Bizarro!

May 2002

Dont'cha just love the cover here? It's random and hilarious but still tied into the main plot. I like how the cardboard character Harley's standing in is reminiscent of Joker's classic tuxedo from the cover of Batman: Harley Quinn, and by her standing in as the male instead of being in the bridal costume shows off her sense of humour and subverts how we see her. Kinda reminds me of her character in a nutshell - she was supposed to be a one note one episode villain but turned that on it's head.

Possibly reading too much into that but eh whatever.

Where we last left off, Jimmy Olsen had just appeared at Holly Chance's apartment to see if she was alright after the whole hostage thing, but in the time that passed between those two instances Harley Quinn had managed to bring a Bizzaro buddy back to meet Poison Ivy and captive Thorn.

The unique way the issue chooses to tell us that Jimmy has stumbled onto Holly/Harley's secret is via Inner Harley interviewing Jimmy Olsen's brain. Yep, you read that right.

Classic.

Turns out Harley had left her 'work' costume sticking out of some trees so Jimmy would find it, then chooses an appropriate time to re-imagine her 'Mad Love' nightie scene, but in a more terrifying way.

I love the reflection in the glass.. small, but nice touch

Jimmy - realising who he was playing with - decided to make a run for it via the kitchen window, even though they were at penthouse level. Harley surprises him by appearing on the other side of the glass, and Jimmy runs for the proverbial hills but ends up running into the remains of Auntie Chance.

And then... Poison Ivy...

DC Universe Harley Quinn 41

It's been a while since I checked out the recent Hardly Quinn. I've been so disappointed with DC comics lately that I just haven't been able to muster the strength to crack open a comic.
Especially since someone saw my classic Harley Quinn mug at work and asked me who it was.
I said this is Harley Quinn and they said oh, like Maggot Robbie?

No. Not like her. This one was funny and talented, not a useless, unfunny, looking like something the cat dragged out of Blondie's reject wardrobe, drugged out gangster ho, the butt-less wonder.
I could go on. The only compliment I can give Maggot Robbie is that her agent gets her juuust enough gigs that she doesn't have to rely on T&A.. which is good, seeing as she hasn't got any but gets her kit off regardless. Sigh.

Remember Harley Quinn? The character DC forgot how to write and just turned her into whatever the Tumblr generation thinks is cool at the moment?

Which brings me to this review. I've had a stressful week, and I want to take it out on something so here's my review on this month's crappy Hardly Quinn.


As usual, the Frank Cho cover greatly outshines the generic thug who eats pizza in weird outfits cover.
I shouldn't have to explain why I think this but good gravy the basic cover has Hardly so... POINTY.


How does she cross her legs without giving herself discount surgery?

 Discount bargain basement Barbie barbarian.





Oh, and this is the first advert they show.

Team Wisdom? That suits her about as much as 'Entropy' suits Batman. Geeez.

From Polygon:

And since he knows their enemy best, Braniac’s in charge of all the team rosters.

That’s a narrative hook that allows Justice League: No Justice’s creative team to indulge in some serious comic book “moneyball,” as Snyder calls it. There’s team Mystery, consisting of Superman, the Martian Manhunter, Starfire, and major villains Starro and Sinestro; team Entropy, including billionaires Batman and Lex Luthor, the assassin Deathstroke, the alien bruiser Lobo and the Teen Titans’ Beast Boy; team Magic, consisting of the mystical heroes Wonder Woman, Doctor Fate, Zatanna, Raven and Etrigan the Demon; and finally, team Wisdom, made up of the Flash, Damian Wayne (Robin), the Atom, Cyborg and, implausibly, Harley Quinn.

Truth be told, I found Dark Knights: Metal kinda lame and basically just skimmed it so sure, maybe Hardly Quinn is on team Wisdom because it's a plant eating entity and not because she's (or this Hardly at least) is anywhere near the smarts of Cyborg, Flash, Robin and Atom. 

Which is annoying because she could be, but she's not there for the empowerment, she's there because she fits the quota of 'at least one girl per team' and she's the resident cash cow. Yuck. 

So, probably won't be checking this out any time soon. The art looks nice, but the colour schemes stink of that time they decided to make literally everyone a lantern of some kind.

Superman/Batman #19 - The New Adventures of Supergirl, the Girl of Steel

Here is a comic, well, a trade paperback that I purchased back in the day, purely for the Harley Quinn cameo. This is what people like me had to do back in the day just to catch a glimpse of my domino-ed sweetheart. Sigh. This morning I rolled out of my Harley Quinn themed bed sheets while wearing my Harley Quinn pyjamas and underpants, took a dump on my red and blue toilet paper, ate my Harley-O's while reading the newspaper about Maggot Robbie's flat butt doing something inane and pointless (like her tiny tits HA).

Then I put my hair up in alternately coloured pigtails and checked my emails, which was full of comic and collectables stores asking me to buy more Harley Quinn statues so they don't starve this month. Afterwards, I tried to go shopping but there were too many ironic tweenagers wearing Suicide Squad gear for me to get past the pop culture stores and their Harley Quinn themed face punches.

Yep, it's definitely a different time today alright.
And now that I've finished ranting like an old fogey, I'm going to go sit out on my porch and yell at people to cut their damn hair.

Oh, you're still here. Well fine, you damn dirty hippie, let's get this show on the road.

One thing - I did not mind this book at all. It was actually pretty interesting, funny, had some genuine threats and it was a good opener to a new Supergirl. There was a few blah moments like the angsty teenage girl stuff and the evil twin cliche.. but I didn't hate on that. Supergirl felt like a real person and that sort of characterisation sells the book for me.

What I didn't like... was the art. It's actually visually great but MY GOSH the elongated torso on Supergirl.. the endless abdominal 'V', her terrifyingly tapered feet... that kind of ruined the book for me. That and every other issue in the trade involved some dramatic punch that somehow looked great but ruined the dramatic punch thing because it was usually an entire splash page and you knew to expect it. Also the artist loves capes. They make them look great but sometimes I feel like I'm looking at cape-porn

That sounded weird. But if you've read the book, you'll know what I mean.