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A review by tawfek
Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass by Mariko Tamaki
4.0
This was a buddy read with the Poetic Jayson and the Beautiful Whitney and the Kawaii Jenny
Canada has a winner and her name is Mariko Tamaki.
This is a tale of Little Brave Girls and Fairies fighting to stop puttholes and boogers.
I like this version of harley and i even like this version of young joker.
Mariko here reimagining the days of early Gotham, and a few of its residents like Harley, joker, Ivy, she gave them all background to what we know they will eventually become, that gradual progression is way more believable than joker who went crazy after falling in chemicals, or ivy suddenly becoming a nature person after her accident when she never gave a fuck, or Harley going from psychiatrist with a degree in curing mental disorders , to a stone cold killer just because she was manipulated by joker, a normal person with an education would most likely hand themselves over to the authorities, manipulation or not, but when you give her a record of not respecting authority, of being able to harm others and burn their things and tendency to taking matters into her own hands, now you are closer to a realistic switch to villainy.
Mariko is delivering a whole new modern origin story of Gotham, its inhabitants, their struggles, inserting modern feminism, LGBT rights, with a gentrification based plot, into her beautiful creation.
The only unrealistic thing in this novel, is Harley's fighting abilities, when Harley knocks out two grown men who work as guards, who are triple her weight, that's just ridiculous, specially when you ignore giving her a background in martial arts.
I thought joker's hair was way to pretty, that he must be a wealthy kid, but i guessed Bruce ! not the kane's kid, in hindsight Bruce being joker is too big a plot twist for a YA novel, that is followed by other novels featuring young bruce as a good guy.
The art i am not sure if it was intentional as a graphic novel about a harlequin and a joker, but those creepy ass smiles on everyone's face really made me not appreciate the art enough, even though its high level and really realistic, with a different coloring oh boy it would go up against sejic himself.
Now i like Harleen by sejic as much as the next guy, but just for the art, i think sejic failed to deliver a unique writing style, he failed to reimagine any of the famous stories that he wrote about, he used the exact same old stories and added nothing but pretty pictures and smutty romance.
Breaking Glass gets from me 4.5 Stars writing and 3 stars for art.
Harleen gets from me 5 star art and 2.5 star writing.
Canada has a winner and her name is Mariko Tamaki.
This is a tale of Little Brave Girls and Fairies fighting to stop puttholes and boogers.
I like this version of harley and i even like this version of young joker.
Mariko here reimagining the days of early Gotham, and a few of its residents like Harley, joker, Ivy, she gave them all background to what we know they will eventually become, that gradual progression is way more believable than joker who went crazy after falling in chemicals, or ivy suddenly becoming a nature person after her accident when she never gave a fuck, or Harley going from psychiatrist with a degree in curing mental disorders , to a stone cold killer just because she was manipulated by joker, a normal person with an education would most likely hand themselves over to the authorities, manipulation or not, but when you give her a record of not respecting authority, of being able to harm others and burn their things and tendency to taking matters into her own hands, now you are closer to a realistic switch to villainy.
Mariko is delivering a whole new modern origin story of Gotham, its inhabitants, their struggles, inserting modern feminism, LGBT rights, with a gentrification based plot, into her beautiful creation.
The only unrealistic thing in this novel, is Harley's fighting abilities, when Harley knocks out two grown men who work as guards, who are triple her weight, that's just ridiculous, specially when you ignore giving her a background in martial arts.
I thought joker's hair was way to pretty, that he must be a wealthy kid, but i guessed Bruce ! not the kane's kid, in hindsight Bruce being joker is too big a plot twist for a YA novel, that is followed by other novels featuring young bruce as a good guy.
The art i am not sure if it was intentional as a graphic novel about a harlequin and a joker, but those creepy ass smiles on everyone's face really made me not appreciate the art enough, even though its high level and really realistic, with a different coloring oh boy it would go up against sejic himself.
Now i like Harleen by sejic as much as the next guy, but just for the art, i think sejic failed to deliver a unique writing style, he failed to reimagine any of the famous stories that he wrote about, he used the exact same old stories and added nothing but pretty pictures and smutty romance.
Breaking Glass gets from me 4.5 Stars writing and 3 stars for art.
Harleen gets from me 5 star art and 2.5 star writing.