Batman: Arkham Knight - Batgirl and Harley Quinn #2

"Caged Animals" 2/2 2015

Writer: Tim Seeley

Pencils: Matthew Clark

Inker: Sean Parsons

Colours: Rob Schwager

Letters: Travis Lanham

Where we last left off, Harley Quinn had just let loose a tiger so in this issue Barbara runs away screaming about an angry wild animal loose in Gotham.

Well, yes, it's a wild animal but angry? It's probably friggin' scared because someone set it's cage on fire and now it's surrounded by new smells, people, noises.. and oh yeah, more fire.
Maybe I'm a bit defensive of my stripey kin but it seems wrong to just assume the tiger will try to eat someone because it's a tiger.

Barbara blames the kid for not giving it his... elephant ear? Is that what hip young Americans with Bat fixations call fairy floss these days? Anyway, she gives the kid to a random carny to look after (pretty trusting of her. Nothing against carnies but the next thing she says is that she has to stop a killer clown.. how does she know Harley's not associated with the circus?)

I enjoyed seeing how she decided to get hyenas as sidekicks. I don't know if I've ever read a sort of origin story for Bud and Lou apart from 'they're here, they're awesome, get used to it'.

Batman: Arkham Knight - Batgirl and Harley Quinn #1

"Caged Animals" 1/2 2015

Writer: Tim Seeley

Pencils: Matthew Clark

Inks: Sean Parsons

Colours: Rob Schwager

Letters: Travis Lanham

This comic is based on the Batman: Arkham Knight game series and opens with Batgirl cornering Killer Croc and his comical way of skipping leg day in a sewer. There's a sort of time skip where we don't get to see what happened before but Batgirl's in the gross water like substance so I assume it's not going well. 

Then Batman comes in and flashbombs Croc before kicking him in the face and telling Batgirl she's an absolute disgrace to him and was only going to get herself killed. She's like well I found this scaly jerk didn't I? Batman sticks to his parental guns - saying that she's been warned several times about getting in his way. 

Can you imagine someone saying that to Batman - especially when he started out? That would only make him more determined, yet he somehow thinks this angry speech will make Batgirl go home and burn her costume? Um, no. 

As it is, I'm pretty sure she flips him off. 

 Next we visit Arkham Asylum where it's completely miserable weather even though it was fine in the sewers.. well, a little too red in the sky if you know what I mean but I guess Arkham Asylum has a clause about certain weather outside for them spooky asylum shots.

Dr. Harleen Quinzel pleads her case for Joker's transfer out of the high security wing in order to better his mental health.




Sounds legit, right?

Not surprisingly, she's shot down by the board because they seem fairly competent at their jobs.