>The clue pointing to a new direction is Robbie's recent reading material, which was impressively decoded on Reddit and identified as 2015's Harley Quinn Valentine's Day Special. (It's suggested, however, that Robbie was reading the collection it appeared in, Harley Quinn Vol. 3: Kiss Kiss Bang Stab.) With Robbie about to step back into Harley's shoes — and, perhaps importantly, away from the Suicide Squad — this choice of research is a fascinating one and perhaps a telling one, as well.
>The Valentine's Day Special issue, like the majority of Harley Quinn comics since 2013, was written by the husband-wife team of Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti. When it comes to Harley, the importance of these two can't be overstated; from their first monthly title featuring the character, they displayed a particular approach toward her that moved her away from an overly sexualized portrayal — thankfully — but also an overly comedic one.
Stop with the knockoff Deadpool shtick. Pu her in this costume if she can't be in the jumpsuit.
Aiden Parker
Make her a Wonder Woman villain.
Brandon Green
Fuck's sake. WB stop givin your actors trash-reading material
Isaac Harris
You got a clown fetish or something?
Jeremiah Roberts
>they displayed a particular approach toward her that moved her away from an overly sexualized portrayal — thankfully — but also an overly comedic one.
This is hilarious.
Dominic Scott
Considering that Harley is more sexualized than ever in that title, constant talks about her butt or tits, constants shots of those too
Eli Hughes
It also boggles the mind that people prefer mildly (to put it nicely) retarded Harley to villain Harley.
Christopher Butler
>Palmiotti and Conner >Moved her away from an overly specialized portrayal
Uh, what? How are the writers of the ongoing that took a character who was a professional theif trying to make her way in a hostile city and turned her into a vehicle for breast expansion comics and lesbian sex "going in a less serialized direction?"
If anything the Injustice comics are the one with the less serialized Harley.
Nicholas Roberts
I love that costune, minus the midriff
#GiveHarleyAMotley
Angel Gomez
make her black and smart
James Reyes
Put people on her book that are actually funny.
Eli Evans
that's insane, not quite as insane as casting Margot Robbie as Tonya Harding, but pretty out there
the writer of that article must have only seen Harley in Arkham Asylum and jumped to the conclusion that all Harley books are like that, the current run is easily way more sexualized than the original book and gotham city sirens
Luke Smith
And what's wrong with sexualizing a character? If you want fat, gender neutral politically correct boring characters, you can probably find something on tumblr
Bentley Taylor
You're right! Let's pretend that breasts don't exist. Let's pretend that asses don't exist. That will make for an awesome comic
Eli Martin
Read the post I replied to, idiot
Parker Long
Easy.
1. Put her in the classic costume 2. Undo the skin bleaching and make it makeup 3. Stop trying to make her an anti-hero 4. Keep her with the Joker. Harley's quintessential trait is that she'll always go back to him no matter what. She is not a feminist anti-hero.
Charles Butler
In other words 90's status quo.
Nathaniel Hill
I don't mind the skin bleaching, it makes her more recognizable when not wearing some two tone outfit
but they should color her really pale like in the Suicide Squad movie and not chalk white like the Joker
Blake Bennett
>they displayed a particular approach toward her that moved her away from an overly sexualized portrayal — thankfully — but also an overly comedic one. What?
Nicholas Howard
Cancel her solo title, make Harley's Little Black Book her one and only primary ongoing (and for god's sake, rename it something less trashy like The Brave and The Bold). I've been saying for a while that DC should make Harley the headliner of a team-up book, because she's designed first and foremost as comic relief and really only works when she's one half of a character dynamic, whether that dynamic is with Joker, Poison Ivy, Batman, Power Girl... you need to have someone to play straightman to her.
The thing is, if a character has both an ongoing AND team-up appearances, then the latter are always secondary to the former, and you know that every issue of HLBB ends with Conner and Palmiotti upholding the status quo of their book. Without that anchor, she could be upsetting the status quos of OTHER books with her shenanigans, at least temporarily, and instead of her just openly living on Coney Island and everyone coming to her, have her as a fugitive travelling the farthest fringes of the DCU, only she keeps winding up in these unlikely team-up situations.
>The Justice League is searching for Harley everywhere, but they'd never think to look... on the OCEAN FLOOR. >Harley dancing like a fool before Aquaman and Mera >HARLEY QUINN, COURT JESTER OF ATLANTIS! >Mera: "Arthur, you haven't laughed this hard since your hand got bit off!"
>Harley Quinn hitches a zeta beam to the outer rim of the galaxy, only to find herself sharing a cell with The Main Man. They hit it off because he's basically just a buffer, even-more-bad-boy Joker, but even he gets sick of her fast and abandons the loopy broad on Bizarro World.
>Harley Quinn Conquers The Bizarros
>Harley Quinn as The Haunted Tank's new operator
This shit writes itself, really.
Robert Sullivan
You can't fix this dumpster fire,the only thing you can do is just to send it into the ocean preferably the Mariana Trench.
Tyler Roberts
I just want her to disappear and never come back, but that's no longer possible thanks to the Arkham games and Suicide Squad so I'll settle for her not getting shilled in every DC book there is.
