I hate Harley Quinn

[Hit Girl]

I think this thread needs pictures so we can compare Harley's evolving appearance in an intellectual and academic manner.

[The Captain]

Amanda Conner is just one of my favorite artists/writers going today. All of her work just has so much personality to it.

illustrationfriday.com/2014/08/comics-illustrator-of-the-week-amanda-conner/

[Sephiroth]

Aug 30, 2015 10:28:26 GMT -5 Big Poppa Pumpkin said:

i blame keith ledger

Is he related to Rice Flair?

[Jiren]

Harley is decently written nowadays, like most of DC

[Demented]

Aug 30, 2015 10:37:16 GMT -5 Hit Girl said:

I think this thread needs pictures so we can compare Harley's evolving appearance in an intellectual and academic manner.

Wish granted... kinda.




Also...

*kicks Sephiroth in the groin*

You can all go home now.

[Deleted]

I like a character evolving. She's only been around for 30 years, and she's super popular. Batman and Joker took a long time to find their stride, just enjoy the ride.

Good lord, I need sleep.

[Red Impact]

I liked her more as an insane overobsessed lover than a brutal psychotic serial killer. It just seems to have gone so far in the other end that it's to see them as teh same character. I don't mind characters evolving (although I am glad her nure/schoolgirl outfit was very limited), but I like it more when it seems like it really keeps in spirit with the character. The few panels of hers that I've seen in recent years makes it seem like she hasn't kept that spirit.

[Deleted]

btw, roller derby Harley > original harley for me.

Though the SS look is really cool too.

[Kevin Hamilton]

Lookin at em all side by side like that, they're not really that significant/egregious changes that I'd assumed/been led to believe by all the hubbub.

[Hit Girl]

Aug 30, 2015 11:45:11 GMT -5 Demented said:

Aug 30, 2015 10:37:16 GMT -5 Hit Girl said:

I think this thread needs pictures so we can compare Harley's evolving appearance in an intellectual and academic manner.

Wish granted... kinda.

I like extreme right Harley


Meaning her position on the drawing.

Not her political beliefs.

[ookkie]

My favourite version has always been the B:TAS version.

[Jiren]

Aug 30, 2015 12:08:39 GMT -5 @personman01 said:

btw, roller derby Harley > original harley for me.

Though the SS look is really cool too.

Agreed

She's a fun character since splitting from joker, Her Ongoing And Harley & Power Girl miniseries are great

[Sephiroth]

Aug 30, 2015 11:45:11 GMT -5 Demented said:

Aug 30, 2015 10:37:16 GMT -5 Hit Girl said:

I think this thread needs pictures so we can compare Harley's evolving appearance in an intellectual and academic manner.

Wish granted... kinda.




Also...

*kicks Sephiroth in the groin*

You can all go home now.

Some of those redesigns aren't bad at all. Some others are just...why?

[Jeff Mangum PI]

It definitely feels like Harley's been flanderized since BTAS went off the air.

But to be fair, I could say the same thing about the Joker.

[Savage Gambino]

I like her overall evolution and her separation from just being Joker's sidekick to being her own person, but there is a real tendency to oversexualize female comic book characters. I think this Tumblr post kinda sums up that fear:

Harley Quinn is a woman who dropped a fight when she figured out Black Canary was pregnant and sat and talked with her and visited her in the hospital with baby gifts.

She is a woman with a doctorate degree who can break into Arkham with only a handful of objects, something no other Batman villain can do.

She’s a woman who knows she’s been abused and is working past it.

She’s a woman who called Dr Fate on his shit because “some of us went to school and earned that title”.

Doctor Harleen Quinzel is a complex character who is probably going to be reduced to Shooting Sex Toy in Suicide Squad and nothing makes me more disappointed.

Also, the romanticizing of Joker and Harley's abusive relationship is about 128 kinds of creepy.

[Alice Syndrome]

I love how she kept basically the same design for years, and then Arkham games came out and suddenly evey iteration of Harley changed to the pigtails and corsets look we have now.

[Fauxnaki]

i like harley. hate suicide squad harley. But i am getting pretty sick of seeing her everywhere on the internet its like the female version of "2edgy4me"

[MC Blowfish]

In Mad Love, she's abused and is throwing herself at Joker in lingerie. She's practically hanging out of her clothes and really isn't too different compared to what we have today.

Characters need to change or they become stagnant. If characters never changed, we could still have campy Batman running around.

[The Captain]

I think one of my favorite Harley comics is a Valentine's Day standalone. She wins a date with Bruce Wayne. And they actually have a pretty good time.

Then Batman catches up with her in Brooklyn and while he doesn't exactly trust her, he commends her on doing a good job in fighting crime in Brooklyn and promises not to interfere. Then Harley kisses Batman and comments that he should get lessons on kissing from Bruce Wayne. It not only does a great job of showing how much Harley has grown, but reminds us of Batman's humanity and his hope that his rogues gallery do reform, while encouraging said reform.

[Bub (BLM)]

I've always hated her. I think she neuters The Joker any time she's paired with him. This is a guy who would kill a guy for screwing up his drive-thru order, yet he keeps around a complete moron who's actively screwed up his plans on numerous occasions? I just think her existence demonstates Paul Dini's complete lack of understanding of The Joker.