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Harleen Quinzel is new in town. She always, to me, seems new in town, even if she's been around a long time, for she always has a very fresh attitude, and seems to look out of those large eyes at everything anew each time. But here she is new in town, and the town is Gotham City. Expecting a year| style="vertical-align: top; text-long furlough from life with her mother, she finds her gran dead and herself with no option but to stay with a bunch of drag queens. She also finds school is a drag, she also finds the whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped align: left;"|===[[Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass by a large and uncaring corporation – but she also finds two characters that will have a big impact on her life. One is a civil-minded lass called Ivy, the other someone she only meets at night – a lad with a singular graffiti tag and a mind for violence Mariko Tamaki and chaos, who calls himself The Joker…Steve Pugh]]===

Yes, this is the fourth entry to the new teen-friendly DC Ink series, and as such spins new looks on their famous characters for a fresh and modern audience. And some of those spins really do result in different approaches – Ivy being a person of colour perhaps the biggest, but also the slightest[[image:3. For this does things with the relationship between The Joker and Harleen that I didn't expect5star. For if you don't knowjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens, Harleen Quinzel becomes Harley Quinn, and there's a good reason for the transformation here, even if it's one that also raises many problems with the book.Graphic Novels]]

This imprint before now has engaged with a self-imposed edginess Harleen Quinzel is new in quite awkward ways – Catwoman became a whiny self-harmer, and the opener to the Teen Titans series tried its best to remove all males from the page as a way of redressing some perceived slighttown. Here too everything is 'woke' – IvyShe always, who we know will somewhen turn into Poison Ivyto me, is big on community gardening and social democracyseems new in town, and hates the schooleven if she's film club been around a long time, for never representing female voices. Hereshe always has a very fresh attitude, the clownish Harlequin costume and character come from the pair being activists with some kind seems to look out of fictionalised Pussy Riot equivalent in mind. What's more, the design highlights thisthose large eyes at everything anew each time. The main core of the story But here she is played out new in shades of green (until it becomes more blueish for no reason), but the scenes of drag-actery gain reds and purples, Ivy's garden adds, obviously, a more life-giving sepiatown, and the scenes featuring The Joker gain a blood-red sky and more colour. So whether we're belting out drag show tunes, being politically inclusive or being with the edgy Joker, we gain extra colours to our life. Which I guess town is a little like real life, if you insistGotham City. But there is Expecting a case to be had for letting the modern PCyear-ness drop and just getting on long furlough from life with the storyher mother, she finds her gran dead and this book only came to life when it did get in touch herself with that. There is an obvious comparison no option but to be had stay with becoming a comic character (finding your strengths, sidekicks, motivations for life – even costume) with becoming an adult, and this book isn't the first to make that comparison, yet does it wellbunch of drag queens. And what else it does with the plot She also finds school is, as alluded to earlier, something I can't really say – suffice it to say that this Joker and this Harley end up in different places than the norm. Finally, a comment that comes from a very different place to all the politically aware attitude of the book itself. I always prefer my Harley Quinn books when she's more attractive. To me, lookist generalisation or nodrag, she always needs to have also finds the edge of looking supremely dateable, but acting like whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a terror large and uncaring corporation – but she also finds two characters that will have a case in point is how the movies have failed at thisbig impact on her life. And this iterationOne is a civil-minded lass called Ivy, at the hand of veteran artist Steve Pugh, gets it spot on. She's both yummy and other someone your parents would hate. The DC Ink is she only meets at an awkward stage at the moment night – I am sure the launch of their first titles was slowed a lad with a singular graffiti tag and made more staggered after the initial hoo-hah, a mind for violence and we're still a long way to go before any Book Twos ever arrive. It will take me til then or beyond to know whether I really love this Harleychaos, but there is just about enough at this stage to say there is a liking for more. I must thank the publishers for my review copy. who calls himself The best in this fledgling portfolio remains Joker… [[MeraHarley Quinn: Tidebreaker by Danielle Paige and Stephen Byrne]]. This author has form with the teenage existence, as shown in [[Skim Breaking Glass by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki|Skim]]. {{amazontext|amazon=1401283292}}{{amazonUStext|amazon=1401283292}} Check prices, read reviews or buy from [https://www.waterstones.com/book/harley-quinn-breaking-glass/mariko-tamaki/steve-pugh/9781401283292 '''Waterstones''']  {{commenthead}} [[Category:Mariko Tamaki]][[Category:Steve Pugh]][[Category:Graphic Novels|Full Review]]