Harley Quinn #1 (volume 2) (RE:VIEW)

Picked up a Dollar Comic edition of Harley Quinn's first issue (volume 2). Excellent initiative to hop into comics for a dollar which I never really would venture into (budgetary reasons). The issue sees Harley inherit an apartment building, while she has a hit on her for a very juicy bounty amount of dosh. 

The cover keeps it fun so I expect the comic to be fun and boy does it run at 100 miles per hour. There is high entertainment value from the beginning in which she takes down a dog owner in abusing his dog in which she inherits. Not only this, she immediately contends with someone who wants to get a bounty on her head (another one later which I would assume becomes a story arc for her later down the line).

The characterisation Harley seems fun especially the part where she goes to find a job or auditions which shows of her quirkiness, fun and tendencies to fray into psychotic epicness. The humour keeps coming and found myself pleasantly surprised that I'm laughing out loud at the jokes (a lot of humour don't really land with me in comics). I much prefer when she has someone to bounce off from though like the talking mole she has with her so that they share that kind of banter (which was also captured in the recent Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy team-up mini-series).

The art is slightly less colourful than the cover itself but good nonetheless. It's subject detailed in that there are fewer details in the background which I don't mind as it does work entirely with the story, panels and speech bubbles.

Subscribe: YES

I see great potential to lead to different over-the-topness fun and I'm sure it would be a great reveal who wants her dead, as well as being able to raise cash for upkeeping her apartment building and managing it. It does seem a slightly different Harley to what I'm seeing but I very much like it.

Credits:
Harley Quinn #1 (volume 2) Dollar Comics edition 
Amanda Conner & Jimmy Palmiotti - writers
Chad Hardin - Artist
Alex Sinclair - Colorist
John J. Hill - Letterer
Ammanda Conner & Paul Mounts - Cover
Release: September 2019 (original: 2013)