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A review by labunnywtf
Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass by Mariko Tamaki
3.0
Received via Netgalley in exchange for a fair and unbiased review
Man, this seemed like such a good idea.
Take Harley Quinn, everyone's favorite lovable psychopath, and send her back to her high school days. There, she meets Ivy, a vegetarian fighting for human rights, and John Kane, a rich asshole who desperately needs a mallet to the face. Harley lives with drag queens and eats nothing but chocolate and peanut butter bars. She's the perfect YA unvillain.
As the book spells out for you, this is basically a fairy tale retelling, without the fairy tale part.
This seems like SUCH a good idea. But there's a problem.
Harley's brand of psychotic is not meant for YA. She's utterly and completely damaged, and while in her solo comics she's lovably so, that doesn't work in this arena.
Props to Tamaki for not making the relationship between Harley and the Joker into a romance, but we were tilting towards that direction before she self corrected, and I'll take it.
I don't know if this is going to be a one off, but I really hope so. Leave Harley to the adults. Let kids find it on their own, without dumbing it down. Even if it is done with beautiful art.
Man, this seemed like such a good idea.
Take Harley Quinn, everyone's favorite lovable psychopath, and send her back to her high school days. There, she meets Ivy, a vegetarian fighting for human rights, and John Kane, a rich asshole who desperately needs a mallet to the face. Harley lives with drag queens and eats nothing but chocolate and peanut butter bars. She's the perfect YA unvillain.
As the book spells out for you, this is basically a fairy tale retelling, without the fairy tale part.
This seems like SUCH a good idea. But there's a problem.
Harley's brand of psychotic is not meant for YA. She's utterly and completely damaged, and while in her solo comics she's lovably so, that doesn't work in this arena.
Props to Tamaki for not making the relationship between Harley and the Joker into a romance, but we were tilting towards that direction before she self corrected, and I'll take it.
I don't know if this is going to be a one off, but I really hope so. Leave Harley to the adults. Let kids find it on their own, without dumbing it down. Even if it is done with beautiful art.