This Rebirth “relaunch” isn’t a reboot and is not even a relaunch, but a continuation of the regular series with a retelling of Harley’s origin in the beginning of the issue that leads to a three part story where Harley and her crew have to deal with a zombie outbreak in Coney Island. Written by Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiottii, the issue is drawn by regulars Chad Hardin, colored by Alex Sinclair and lettered by Dave Sharpe.
However plenty of retailers have taken advantage of the opportunity to commission their own exclusive retailer variant cover in return for ordering thousands of copies.
I started to hear the word last week that advance orders for Harley Quinn #1 including all those exclusive covers, ahead of the Suicide Squad movie, was around 400,000 and I’ve heard it again from a closer source today. So much so that it’s outsold Batman – a rarity.
When I saw the thumbnail I thought it was Mazinger. I'm sad now.
Josiah Wood
DC's worst book sells the best. What kind of bizzaro world do we live in
Easton Brooks
It could sell 800,000 and I would still hold fast to the opinion that it's nothing but hot garbage.
James Carter
Comicsbeat finally updated their charts? Nice
Lincoln Mitchell
I hate it too, user.
Dylan Miller
>Omega Men can't break 10k >Harley Quinn outells Batman
this is not a just world
Angel Anderson
should have called it Harley Quinn and the Omega Men and used her instead of Kyle
Ian Rogers
Dude, if what i heard in cons in is the truth Batman fans and shpppers will be fucking mad in in a few months.
Palmiotti & Conner are going to bring Batman as a regular and set up Batman x Harley for some retarded reason.
Thomas Johnson
At what point did she fucking explode in popularity? What was the catalyst for her surge to top tier sales?
Ayden James
Don't make me angry
Know what?. Let's them do it, that way they stop shitting up Harley/Ivy, I accept that trade
Anthony Sanders
she's always been popular, but the arkham games brought it back these sales in particular are because the movie is coming out
John Turner
>Let's them do it, that way they stop shitting up Harley/Ivy, I accept that trade
Do you really think that, user? Come on.
They'll do with Batman was they did with Mason. Harley will be doing shit with Batman while Poison Ivy will pop up here and there to be teased by Harley and help out.
Carter Allen
>she's always been popular, but the arkham games brought it back
This make me think... Harley and Deathstroke has become pretty popular. Deathstroke comics despite being shitty don't sell bad.
If the case for these are the Arkham comics, how would a Black Mask comic fare? People for some unknown reason like the game version.
Brody Allen
I know I know, but I'm trying to see the good side. If DC doesn't end Bombshells in the time being I'll be not so annoyed since that's my source of Harley/Ivy material
Jayden Barnes
At last, my ship has come in.
Suck it.
Nathan Jones
It'll be written by the current creative team, so go fuck yourself.
Zachary Reyes
Enjoy an OOC Batman that condone murder and crime, asshole
Nicholas Torres
THIS. The two times Batman appeared in the comic he behaved nothing like himself.
Sebastian Ross
Naw, she's casual bait, her and Deadpool have a decent amount of guaranteed sales. Hell, she consistently sold more than any other DC property but Batman for the last two-ish years.
I wouldn't be surprised that after the Rebirth relaunch fad calms down, she's holding down the fort for DC sales yet again.
David Campbell
>Harley Quinn is DC's best-selling female character
>even more than Wonder Woman, who is one of the most famous heroes in pop culture and is THE female superhero
Yet he still manages to tolerate Red Hood and any other murderer when it's convenient.
Logan Young
I was busy beating it to Harley.
Owen Carter
You're part of the problem, m8
Aiden Smith
He doesn't tolerate Red Hood when he kills, he doesn't event tolerate Selina when she kills
Ryan Scott
If busting a nut is wrong then slap the cuffs on me, officer.
Lincoln Williams
>he doesn't event tolerate Selina when she kills
She doesn't kill. And before you even try to bring it up, her killing Black Mask was not only done during extremely extenuating circumstances, but it also happened during one of the worst, most character-destroying runs the character has ever had.
Lucas Miller
>I didn't like it so it doesn't count
Jaxson Martin
Yeah, i'll and then i'll take you to an isolated corner, push your against a wall, pull your pants down, push your legs apart with my foot and them butt-fuck you like crazy with all my strength while pining your arms behind your back, twisting them hard, pushing my body against your back, forcing against the wall, and biting your neck and ear. You'd like that, wouldn't you?
Adam Reed
Stores that buy too much from DC can return them, unlike with Marvel.
Josiah Nguyen
Pretty sure the variants were retailer exclusive not incentive based.
Brandon Parker
You joke, but I am morbidly curious about how that would go. I feel like Harley would actually side with Kalista on her shit.
Asher Collins
The Arkham games put her back in the pucblic just around the time when social media started looking for female comic book characters to fixate on.
Kayden Martinez
>Batman has to decide between his morals or some bomb ass pussy I'd read it
Justin Campbell
Real talk before I order the #1
Is there any promise to this series
James Ortiz
If that's where you put your foot down, then you were wrong in the first place. He did tolerate her killing. Pfeifer's run was a shitshow, but since it happened it must strike true for the characters, right?
Jaxon Kelly
Do you want to read about zombie shit and then Batman being OOC and fucking Harley?
Samuel Thomas
Not really, you can read the storytime and see for yourself though. Might be your thing.
Nathan James
Batman gets out of relationships like Houdini got out of straitjackets
Jaxson Richardson
Nope. Not a thing, expect everything to keep being the same as before
Christian Lopez
Which is why I can't wait for next months sales once SS bombs hard.
Adrian Kelly
When DC do this then we can talk.
Gavin Bell
This means nothing since these are returnable
Bentley Flores
She'll still be one of the DC's best sellers, user
Asher Adams
Nothing wrong unless you're paying for it. You browse Sup Forums for fucks sake, there's no excuse for actually paying for this garbage.
Carson Stewart
Do you have the image where Harley gets powergirl sized boobs from a genie?
Ryan Taylor
But SS is tracking 100-140 mil, it won't bomb and neither did BvS. Reviews don't mean much user.
Asher Cruz
>t. moviefag who doesn't understand how comic sales work
Adam Long
>Another veteran says the goal is survival: "The movie's got to do $750 million, $800 million to break even. If they get anywhere close to that, they'll consider it a win."
Bomb
Cooper Powell
>Michael Turner comes back from the dead to get a variant paycheck.
Ian Wright
yeah he had a batman variant too pretty weird
Luis Ortiz
>not faking your own death to increase the price on your "art"
shitty artist, great businessman
Brandon Howard
Miller's heading his way, i think
Charles Jackson
>Batman x Harley >Implying that it wouldn't be the best Batman shipping in years.
Joshua Gray
Fuck you.
Brody Jenkins
Don't be jealous, user.
Colton Torres
I fucking hate Palmiotti and Conner. This is bullshit.
Lucas Sanchez
New52 Harley has a huge boner for Bruce for some reason.
Wyatt Thompson
That kind of happened in her Valentine's Day special.
But Harley walked out of it because Batman wasn't much of a kisser.
Now that Bruce Wayne though, she mused, that guy knows how to treat a lady.
Angel Morris
You do know that's gonna be reduced right? Batman sold way more than what Diamond showed us but was reduced. More or less it's gonna chart at around 350K which is still pretty solid.
Isaiah Taylor
>Tons of variants DC literally only has two covers for its books you idiot. Three if you count bigger retailers having their own exclusive variants.
Ethan Gray
And now for your regularly scheduled company wars:
Does Marvel have anything lined up for August that might rival that amount? How can Marvel even compete?
Because DC has not only this, but Suicide Squad Rebirth and #1, too. AND All-Star Batman #1, which will definitely sell like fire. Along with the rest of Rebirth, as well.
Gavin Nguyen
Looking forward to getting All Star Batman #1.
Aiden Long
Batman fucking Harley is the stupidest thing there is.
Logan Howard
>Does Marvel have anything lined up for August that might rival that amount? Stilt-Man is going to become trans?
Carson Sanders
If Batman/Harley becomes a thing, then Batwoman/Ivy needs to happen.
Adrian Fisher
Not really. CW2 will do like 150k max.
They will probably ship twice as many things as DC though so market share probably won't change a ton
Jordan Cooper
Yeah, but it's also the hottest thing ever to!
Thomas Thompson
>yfw Harley gets more Bat-action than Catwoman
What the hell are they thinking?
Lucas Wright
No, fuck this shit,
Fuck you. It isn't hot at all. It doesn't even make any sense.
Austin Baker
It's kinda neat that it's the inverse of what was the Catwoman relationship for a long time
Adrian Roberts
Mah nigga
Carter Gutierrez
>People finding Harley more attractive than based Selina.
This is why Trump is going to bring about the destruction of the world in less than six months.
Hunter Kelly
Batman's relationship are always pointless garbage so who cares? Petite girls raping big muscular men is mind fetish. I want Livewire to hook up with Superman next.
>04/2016: Harley Quinn #27 -- 54,864 (+ 6.7%) >05/2016: Harley Quinn #28 -- 43,858 (- 20.1%) >06/2016: Harley Quinn #29 -- 55,774 (+ 27.2%) What's the deal with these jumps?
Logan Young
>Orders, not Sold. Orders mean dick and DC allows Returns of stock unsold. Holy shit, read the fucking post. The post said in return for X-thousand orders the store would get a comissioned variant for that store only. Why the fuck would those copies be returnable if it's the price of a store-exclusive variant?
Cameron Roberts
>People for some unknown reason like the game version.
My reason: i love those fucking games with passion, and Harley is fun as hell in there. I don't get the complaint about Tara voicing her, she does a great job.
Landon Mitchell
23 Bruce Timm Variant 27 JRJR variant and the first appearance of Redtool 29 had a Gamestop exclusive variant.
Chase Martin
>Does Marvel have anything lined up for August that might rival that amount?
Nope.
Jace Barnes
Frank Cho now on HQ
Colton Myers
>Reviews don't mean much user
Yeah, and that massive, almost record breaking drop off after the first few days wasn't because of critics and bad word of mouth, right?
Samuel Brooks
you have 10 seconds to name the Harley Gang
almost half a million people bought her book today and not person not working at DC comics can actually name them.
Adam Foster
It was because of bad word of mouth. Critics don't mean shit mate. All those glowing reviews did fuck all for Ghostbusters
Sebastian Garcia
The only Harley book I'm reading is HLLB, AND that's only for Double Decker and Pub Crawler.
Dylan Roberts
I'm more confused about the drops. If it stayed low it would make sense, but those two issues seem to stand out as the only inconsistent parts.
Robert Perez
Does the short, flatchested one get any focus? What's her personality like? I may have to pirate it for her.
Nicholas Bailey
Selina is a dried up whore. Harley is top dog now.
Robert Brooks
I am not surprised by this tomfoolery, the casual fans for this character is on the same level as toxic and annoying as Deadpool. Regardless of what any reviewers say, morons will flock in droves to go see The Harley Quinn movie featuring the Suicide Squad and some Joker.
Xavier Myers
Aren't you happy Sup Forums? This is what you wanted, another DC character selling more than Batman
Asher Cruz
I don't know why this would bother anybody
Andrew Bell
Because it's fucking Quinn. i mean, it doesn't actually bother me, I'm not nearly that invested, but it does bewilder me.
Alexander Rodriguez
>A comic outselling batman >Based on batman >In the batman universe Damn.
