A review by alice_digest
Harley Quinn, Vol. 1: Preludes and Knock-Knock Jokes by Troy Nixey, Brandon Badeaux, Karl Kesel, A.J. Lieberman, Craig Rousseau, Mike Huddleston, Rachel Dodson, Terry Dodson, Pete Woods

1.0

I didn't enjoy this. I didn't like the art much (too cartoonish for my taste), the dialogue is hard to follow, and the plot is thin to the point of not existing. It's also surprisingly sexist!

I didn't mind the first story which ended with Harley leaving the Joker (well she kind of has to after he tries to kill her) and striking out on her own, following some girl-power advice from her BFF Poison Ivy. After that though it is just empty rubbish and awkward attempts to shoehorn as many DC characters in as possible (I don't tend to read DC so I only know a few!). It seems that Harley actually can't do anything on her own or even have a story all to herself without another character jumping in on the action! She's also dismissed by everybody as just the Joker's crazy girlfriend and nothing more, which I might have been OK with if this book had done anything to disprove that assumption..

I had to force myself to get to the end of it because it's pretty boring.
It definitely didn't sell me on DC comics!