Harley Quinn and the Birds of Prey #2

This is a really fun issue. I love the tone and the attitude. The plot is fun and interesting. And the art is great. My only issues is that I wish Huntress and Black Canary had more to do. Read Full Review

Harley Quinn and The Birds of Prey #2 followed up the first issue brilliantly, though I think I actually enjoyed this one more. Not because the first issue wasn't good, but because this one expands on Harley's plans. It also explains just what it will take for her to fix her home and help her crew. The team has given us Harley's greatest [email protected](# you to the Joker, in a way that is actually detrimental to him. I look forward to seeing what issue #3 of Harley Quinn and The Birds of Prey has in store for us, now that more players are joining the fray! Read Full Review

After a longer-than-expected wait between issues, Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner's R-rated revival of their Harley Quinn run returns with a second issue that somehow manages to be significantly crazier than the first " and that's saying something. Read Full Review

I loved the ending of this issue, which sets things up for what I am sure will be a killer third issue. Especially given that Joker will not be working alone when he goes after his ex-girlfriend. Read Full Review

Amanda Conner's art is fantastic. There is a lightness and energy to the art that engages the reader and the action is exciting to see. Read Full Review

Harley Quinn and the Birds of Prey #2 feels like yet another quintessential Quinn story. Read Full Review

There's certainly some of the back-and-forth between Harley and Renee that could have been whittled down in the over-sized issue. The story also races right by giving a proper introduction to Harley's gal pal Elementia (who helps her both get away from Montoya and break into the Joker's vaults). Other than Harley messing around with the Joker's robot guards, there's not a lot of action here, although we do get a short sequence of Bat-suited Cassandra Cain taking on the Joker, but there's plenty of Harley being Harley. Read Full Review

Harley Quinn & the Birds of Prey #2 delivers some great, funny moments, but it also has portions where the book really feels as though it drags. Thankfully, the slower moments are earlier in the book, so by the time you reach the half-way point of the issue, all that's left is a fun, crazy adventure! No, this won't be everyone's cup of tea, but the title doesn't hide what it is, so it gives you a fair warning before you ever even open the book. Despite some shortcomings, I found this issue to be quite entertaining and funny, and I'm looking forward to the next chapter. Read Full Review

A generally fine comic with some gorgeous artwork is brought down by so many weird continuity inconsistencies. They just smash comic and movie continuities together to tell a story that doesn't feel all that interesting. Read Full Review

Batmanman

Jul 24, 2020

Another masterpiece

Nihilist

Jun 24, 2020

For someone who has Harley set as the avatar, I have very low tolerance for her post Paul Dini self. Aside from her reinvented regressed personality and sheer bloody stupidity, the overused accent is an important factor in making me want to punch a wall every time I read her dialogues. After reading the first page of the comic I was mildly annoyed. After reading the second I was growing progressively more tired and hopeless. But boy, oh boy, was there a surprise for me waiting on the third page... specifically one line: "I wanna go pontoon boatin' with Powwa Girl an' Wonda Woman". Kill me. Just kill me. No doubt DC's greenlit this book, alongside Azzarello's monstrosity filled with racial and sexual insensitivities, only because WB wa nted to promote the awful movie they've spawned and that got nowhere because it didn't appeal to anybody, especially people who know and care about comics, meaning the core audience they should have pandered to. Hence now they double down on desperately trying to convince us that Harley and Birds of prey belong together, but not because they share good stories and entire story arcs. No, that'd take time and effort to craft. Let's instead team them up for no damn good reason, to merely tick a box and pretend the the main cast is now canonizez in the comics so no one can state the movie has nothing to do with the source material and took its cript from its ass. Now, all the terrible things I can say about its cynical reasons to exist, script and dialogues, do not discredit the art here. I may dislike (strongly) Conner as a writer, but she's a fantastic artist and I adore her expressive cartoonish style. It's upbeat, it's detailed, each character looks unique, and panels featuring action/movement feel dynamic. She'd be a perfect fit for series targetting your typical normies, preferably younger girls. Which begs the question why does this comic have Black Label emblem on it? Why does it pretend it's R rated while clearly its narrative and dialogues are meant for tweens (at most)? Throwing few F bombs and sprinkling it with blood doesn't make something mature. Skip this trainwreck unless art is literally all you care about. But in this case you can probably look for a poster designed by Conner or something not having "Wonda Woman" written on it. more