Goodbye, My Coney Island Humans
Written By:
Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner
Art By:
Chad Hardin & John Timms, Brett Blevins, Alex Sinclair
Lettered By:
Dave Sharpe
Cover Price:
$2.99
On Sale Date: August 17, 2016
**NON SPOILERS AND SCORE AT THE BOTTOM**
Oh man, here it is folks…Harley Quinn is now out every two weeks. We were warned this was
going to happen, and now it’s upon us. That means on top of the bi-weekly
appearance of Harley in Suicide Squad,
and the monthly Harley Quinn and her Gang
of Harleys, and the quarterly Harley’s
Little Black Book, we get Harley Quinn twice per month in her own title! You gotta hand it to DC,
they’re not skimping on the Quinn. The internet is rife with people complaining
about the over-saturation of Harley
Quinn, and how they’re going to ruin the character with so many outings,
but numbers don’t lie folks: people buy Harley
Quinn comics by the barrelful. Well, not literally, I don’t think comic
books are normally sold in barrels. Not to collectors, anyway. And if some of
you crankypants would take a look at the rich, vivid world created by Palmiotti
and Conner, you might find you like it. Like Coney Island, Harley Quinn is open to all! But like Coney Island, you might lose
your lunch reading an issue of the comic book. Is that the case this time
around? Read on and find out!
Last we left Harley and the crew, they’d just
launched an armless Red Tool, with his arm packed in a cooler, towards the
local hospital via scatapult on Harley’s roof. If you don’t know what the
scatapult is, then don’t ask. Red Tool passed out due to lack of blood
immediately upon liftoff, so Harley grabs a scoped automatic rifle and shoots
out hospital windows so Red Tool won’t get all cut up by broken glass as he
sails into the facility. Tony is trying to provide guidance, but keeps
misjudging the descent of Red Tool’s limp body—long story short, Harley shoots
up about three floors of this hospital. That’s our Harley! Once Red Tool is
safely slammed into the hospital cafeteria’s serving line, Tony calls in to
make sure they reattach his arm and charge it to Obamacare. Now, the zombies.
With all of this scatapulting (seriously, don’t ask)
you might have forgotten that Coney Island was overrun with ravenous,
flesh-eating zombies that turned after eating some Nathan’s Nateman’s
frankfurters that were tainted by a mis-processed alien shapeshifter. See what
happens when you miss an issue? The police have shown up in riot gear, or as we
call it in New York City “standard-issue uniforms,” and prepare to engage the
undead, but they are held back from leaving the immediate vicinity by some kind
of invisible bubble. A copper chopper can see that the center of this fracas is
Nathan’s Nateman’s hot dogs, which is probably located right at the
corner of Surf and Stillwell Avenues but is totally, absolutely not the
establishment you would see there today if you visited that nexus. Since the
zombie threat is fairly well contained, the cops relax and await orders and
probably donuts. Watching the confusion on television, Harley and the crew
decide that what they need to do is catch some of the infected and study them,
which is a brilliant plan with no possible downsides. The gang takes to the
roof again and Harley attempts to yank a zombie up with a fishing rod, but
instead snags a zombie horse that takes off galloping and drags Harley down
into the chaos. Admittedly, Harley takes to it well, but even she is
overwhelmed by the sheer number of antagonists, and at this point I’d like to
give this review over to
A Peek Into
the Production Process for Harley
Quinn, the Comic Book
Chad
Hardin: Oh, hey Jimmy.
Jimmy
Palmiotti: ‘Eyy fuggin’ Chad, how da
fugg are ya?
Chad
Hardin: Pretty good, pretty good.
I’m really having a good time drawing issue number two.
Jimmy
Palmiotti: ‘Eyy dat’s fuggin’
eggcellent over here, I’m really t’rilled youse is havin’, whadoyacallit…fun.
Chad
Hardin: Yeah, thing is I’m sort of
laboring over these zombies, I’m having trouble meeting schedule.
Jimmy
Palmiotti: IS SOMEONE BODDERIN’
YOUSE?! YOU WANT I SHOULD BREAK SOME FINGAZ OVER THERE?!!
Chad
Hardin: No, no Jimmy, nothing like
that…look, John Timms wants to do some work on the book, I think he’d do great
on the back half.
Jimmy
Palmiotti: Dimms? I like his work
over here.
Chad
Hardin: Yeah, I know, you’ve worked
with him plenty of times. He could draw some awesome splash pages of Harley
fighting off the zombie horde, there wouldn’t even have to be a lot of script
or dialogue.
Jimmy
Palmiotti: [pause] I get paid da
same page rate?
Chad
Hardin: Of course!
Jimmy
Palmiotti: Let’s do it.
Eventually, Tony, Goatby, Jimm Salabim and Queenie,
strapped with grenades come to Harley Quinn’s aid, and then they all get rushed
into the enclosed bumper cars area, which Goatboy chains and locks in record
time, I mean really, hat’s off to you Goatboy. When the Apocalypse finally does
happen, being able to barricade a place quickly will serve as a much more
useful skill than corn farming. His handiwork is to no avail, however, because
the pressing mass of zombies breaks through the barricade and begins stumbling
towards the trapped quintet, when Poison Ivy shows up and starts pruning some
of them back with a weed whacker!
You like wacky? You like crazy? You like gory? You
like silly? Why aren’t you reading this book? Great art? Cohesive universe spanning
over several comics? Hello? Is it the clown thing? Are you afraid of clowns?
Because if you’re afraid of clowns, then I can understand. Everyone else must
have a problem with smiling.
Bits and
Pieces:
8.5/10
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