Scan barcode
A review by ellytheskelly
Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass by Mariko Tamaki
1.0
I've really enjoyed everything else I've read from Mariko Tamaki, so I had high hopes after picking this one up. Obviously, I was left very disappointed.
First off, I'm not a huge comics person. However, I will always make space to read comics with cool female leads, and I was absolutely willing to add Harley Quinn to my short list of comics I read and enjoy.
I am not big into DC or Batman, but I still felt really insulted by the way that Harley is molded into a manic pixie dream girl, thinking of things in absolutes, not caring at all about school, her studies, or even learning anything at all. She also sits on her hands and doesn't care when her friend is clearly being disrespected just because she is black. ( and that thread never gets addressed again? why? why include it at that point?) I've always had a lingering curiosity about Harley because she was known as super smart and intelligent, and just as powerful as the men surrounding her. But here, she just seems really ditzy? I don't see what it does for her story to make her so oblivious and uncaring about some things but when it comes to gentrification, that's when she cares all of a sudden, for real?
This is an easy skip, if you want to read Mariko Tamaki's work read Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me or This One Summer.
First off, I'm not a huge comics person. However, I will always make space to read comics with cool female leads, and I was absolutely willing to add Harley Quinn to my short list of comics I read and enjoy.
I am not big into DC or Batman, but I still felt really insulted by the way that Harley is molded into a manic pixie dream girl, thinking of things in absolutes, not caring at all about school, her studies, or even learning anything at all. She also sits on her hands and doesn't care when her friend is clearly being disrespected just because she is black. ( and that thread never gets addressed again? why? why include it at that point?) I've always had a lingering curiosity about Harley because she was known as super smart and intelligent, and just as powerful as the men surrounding her. But here, she just seems really ditzy? I don't see what it does for her story to make her so oblivious and uncaring about some things but when it comes to gentrification, that's when she cares all of a sudden, for real?
This is an easy skip, if you want to read Mariko Tamaki's work read Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me or This One Summer.