DC fans we've been getting alot of Harley Quinn movie news recently and I thought that for a change instead of reviewing a movie or TV show i'd review a comic book featuring Harley. You can see by the title which book I chose and honestly it's not that good of a book but it is a fun way to pass a few hours so without dragging this introduction on two long here is my review of Harley Quinn And Her Gang Of Harleys.
The plot of the book is that Harley has hired some people to be in a gang with her with the aim to help make New York safer but something goes wrong and Harley ends up being kidnapped now it's up to the gang to find there boss and friend and put a stop to this madness. Story wise I felt that the book was very Harley like only she would put a gang together to help protect new york only for it go wrong but that being said the story isn't as good as it perhaps could have been.
As you'll know by the name of the book Harley Quinn isn't the only star of this book heck even go as far to say that she's more of a minor character. In my eyes the actual main characters are the gang of harleys themselves which all have names which rime with Harley Quinn heck even the the character descriptions at the start of the book do a better job of explaining the characters then the actual book or story does that's how you know it's pretty bad.
I have to say the idea of Harley having her own team is a good idea and it does open the door to alot of ideas. However how this book handles that idea isn't that good imagine if the whole book was about them coming together as a team to take on some big bad and all the time Harley is there just getting angry at them that to me would seem like a funny idea because Harley in my eyes wants a team like the Justice League but instead she's getting a lower level Justice League.
Writing this book is Frank Tieri (Old Lady Harley and Gotham Underground) and Jimmy Palmiotti (Friday The 13th , Deadpool Family and alot of Harley Quinn books). First of as a horror fan I had no idea there was a Friday The 13th comic book but in terms of this book the writing is fairly decent it's not the best which is a shame because as I mentioned one of the writers writes alot of Harley Quinn books so you'd think he'd know the character and what works for the character.
In terms of the art we have Mauricet who only hasn't worked on that many books and one of the books they have worked on is the unneeded Dastardly & Muttley comic book. Yeah I can see why this person hasn't worked on that much because the art work in this book isn't that good it's not bad by any means but it could have been so much better there's quite a few off looking drawings all the issues I have with the art could have been fixed with a quick re-drawing but I guess the artist didn't want to go the extra mile.
The villain of this book is the greatly named Harley Sinn and if you couldn't tell by the name she's a fan of Batman only kidding she's a fan of Harley Quinn. As far as I can work out this is one her earliest appearances and judging by some research I did she appears in other Harley comics I mention this because she is one of the best things about the whole series. She is just so freaking insane like for example she makes all the people that work for her wear colours similar to Harley and she even kills one of them for almost hitting Harley that is pure insane right there.
I have to wonder tho why the heck does she have a face that's similar to the joker when his face was stitched on? that to me just looks weird. Now i've just praised the villain but now it's time to dot the opposite because she has very little motive literally her main goal is I think to make Harley fall in love with her it's not really made clear on that front nothing about her plan is made that clear they might make certain things more clear in future issues but in here there's quite alot left unexplained.
This mini series came out in 2016 and ran for six issues and from what I can work out it was a monthly series. Thank god this was only a short series because the plot really doesn't work well for a six issue series so if they made it longer that would have meant that we would have got a lot of filler if anything this series should have been at least three or four issues long since that would fit the story perfectly.
What honestly shocked me was the fact that Harley Sinn's father looks exactly like a certain President who i'm not going to mention because I don't want to start a political war. I'm not even kidding in fact not only does her father look like this person but the first time we see him he's on a news station called wait for it Faux News that is just so freaking perfect and I would have been so happy if the series was just lampooning this person.
Since this is a Harley book that means we have to talk about the jokes in this series to put it simply there's a lot of unfunny jokes in this series. Don't get me wrong there's some good jokes like for example Sinn's dad once you see who he's based of is a good joke and even Harley gets in one or two great one liners but there's a lot more unfunny jokes in the series then there are funny ones which for Harley is a bad thing.
This is also an action book and that means we have to talk about the action contained with in it and in this case the action is really good. Of course it doesn't have any super powered fights and i'll admit that was a bit jarring for me personally since i'm used to reading books where that's the case but once I got over it I found the action to be pretty exciting and perfectly suiting for this book since alot of the characters get there time to shine and yes one of the characters is basically Barbra Gordon.
Overall this book does have a lot of issues with it and I think i've covered them all but in my eyes it's also a fun book if your a Harley fan you'll be disappointed that she isn't the main character in her own book but there's plenty of Harley to go around and so this book gets a 5 out of 10 from me.