No need to pretend that we don’t know how this is going to end, or try and be coy/sneaky about Harley Quinn. It’s an interesting scene and a benefit of making a prequel.

Someone, presumably a guard if this is a bank, gets the drop on the Joker, putting a pistol to his head, but a gesture from the Joker signals the person who’s POV we’re seeing from to attack with a bat.Īs you can see, we’re not seeing a flashback but a glimpse of the future, as Harley (not Harleen) kills the guard with her bat. He begins giving his usual ‘one bad day’ speech, albeit not in those words, while the art takes us to what one presumes is a bank, as Joker robs it with some minions, including a person in tight red and black sleeves, whose point of view (POV) the panels are drawn from. This second issue begins where the first left off, with Harleen interviewing the Joker while he stands in his cell, one arm in a sling. It might cause you the same momentary issues it caused me, but maybe it won’t. All the same though, there’s something jarring to me, a fangirl, to seeing these usually more vibrant characters drawn a little less brightly than normal. It makes things stand out, and probably hits a more realistic note. Not in an ugly, or even really bad, way mind you. I will say that his color palette is perhaps a bit washed out looking. The art and writing come to us from popular Croatian artist Stjepan Šejić, and, like I said in the first review, he continues to do quite good work, as demonstrated by the image above. Harleen Quinzel was brainwashed and hurt by the Joker into becoming Harley Quinn, something that’s never really been delved into in much detail in the past. Due to the more serious and ‘adult-oriented’ nature of the Black Label, this comic is a lot darker than typical DC fare, and shows the process by which Dr. Harleen is a miniseries, three sixty or so page issues released by DC Comics under their Black Label. It has been a good bit since my review of the first issue though, so perhaps some quick summarizing.

I have less to say before we get to the recap portion this time. We’re not done with seeing Harleen’s transformation, there’s still a way to go, but we’re definitely going to see more of the process of her breaking than we did last time. This one is a bit darker than the last one friends, fair warning. Well, here we are! Once more we return to the tragic past of Gotham’s favorite daughter, Harley Quinn. Spoilers for Harleen #2, and Trigger Warnings for mentions and depictions of abuse and violence.

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