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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A light weight knock out, February 8, 2008
This review is from: Harley Quinn: Preludes and Knock-Knock Jokes (Hardcover)
Fans of Harley Quinn should purchase this without hesitation; it delivers the first seven issues of her y2k series in a beautifully bound hardcover.
Visually, the pages here feature mostly fantastic, seductive, pin-up style panels of Harley mixed with some cartoon like panels that resemble her in the Batman animated series. One has to assume the later is done because of time constraints, but whatever. This is more an observation than a complaint.
The stories here are fairly light weight, but are filled with enough action, humor and dialog here to keep things engaging.
More Harley Quinn please! She's perhaps the most interesting "super villainess" in the history of comics.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
If they don't get the joke, they'll get the punchline!, February 3, 2008
This review is from: Harley Quinn: Preludes and Knock-Knock Jokes (Hardcover)
This book is just pure gold and in complete essence of Harley Quinn. Karl Kesel and Terry Dodson did a wonderful job to transition the title character from her animated medium to one that fits in well with the dark setting of the mainstream DCU, without changing much of what Paul Dini had already established for the character. With Kesel's clever writing and Dodson's beautiful illustrations, the character truly does take a life of her own.
In this volume Harley decides she wants to establish herself as a baddie in old run-down Gotham and for that, she goes on to ditch the Joker and start her own gang. This volume is equipped with half-witted crime schemes, a slumber party, villain team-ups, a failed attempt to loot Bruce Wayne's mansion, and hilarity ensues. The thing that makes this book a plus, is that with Harley's independence from the Joker, the writer is left with plenty of room to explore the character's psyche beyond that of a mere henchgirl with a perverse obsession with one of Gotham's most notorious criminals. The stories go on to illustrate the things that make Harley a heartless criminal as well as the things that make her a sympathetic human being.
Overall this is a good book for any comicbook fan (and Harley fans in general) to possess and enjoy. The stories are fun to read, equipped with witty dialogue, and of course Harley's twisted sense of humour. Die-hard fans of the animated series may be disappointed to learn that Harley's not as innocent in these pages as she is in DCAU, but with Dodson's luscious artwork and Kesel's own spin to establish the Character beyond of what's already familiar to most, make it all worthwhile in my opinion.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Suureality at its finiest, February 3, 2008
This review is from: Harley Quinn: Preludes and Knock-Knock Jokes (Hardcover)
The plots are odd. The heroine tries to sabotage an amusement park, holds a slumber party meeting of Gotham's bad girls, and destroys Wayne Manor trying to rob it. The humor is pitch black. Murder is exceedingly common. Yet, in a strange way, this is truly great stuff. Mainly because it's a surreal story. We are being asked to pull for a character who isn't all there and who gleefully engages in destructive acts. Fans of the character from the animated series will find much to love here.
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