Sean Murphy, Matteo Scalera and Katana Collins are hitting all the bases in this series. From a new origin of the Joker to a “Harley Fight” to hyenas playing with the kids! Oh…there's a murder or two to solve as well.  Read Full Review

Mateo Sclera's art, paired with Collin's writing, presents a gritty, dark feel to this story, which is what I love about Batman stories. Read Full Review

Matteo Scalera delivers some beautiful imagery throughout this issue. There are so many great visual moments and the art style captures the tone of the story perfectly. Read Full Review

Batman White Knight Presents Harley Quinn #2 is available today so make sure you head over to your local comic shop or download via digital from your preferred digital retailer. Make sure you guys let us know what you thought of the issue as well as the series overall so far as well by leaving your comments below! Read Full Review

Two issues in, Collins and Scalera have created a series that feels like it shouldn't work, only for it to perform exceptionally well. Read Full Review

Granted, this issue wasn't quite as strong as issue #1, but that's more because the series set a rather high bar right out of the gate, and issue #2 continues the book's winning streak. Read Full Review

Strong characterization, excellent narrative tone-painting, and boldly gorgeous art lift the somewhat meandering plotting to an enjoyable read. Read Full Review

The last few pages really salvage this issue, but I can't help but feel that it's spinning its gears a bit too much with unnecessary flashbacks and not focusing enough on the mystery " which, at least to me, should be the real hook of the miniseries. Read Full Review

" Neo joker. You were never a real villain. You're deriative at best !

I am really liking the Murphyverse as it is something new and exciting and interesting and not just rehashing the same old ideas. While this issue wasn't as strong as the last one, it is still enjoyable enough.

Murphyverse got me invested into its lore and character since the original White Knight book. I already said it more than once, but it's exactly what I needed, with characters acting exactly the way I'd envision them acting. It succeeds where the main DC continuity fails, and this spin-off series is the prime example of that.

So out of character it's painful to read.

"White Knight Presents: Harley Quinn" goes for fan service over substance.

There's just a lot of weird narrative choices that just turned me off which only was made to appeal more to some shipper girls on Twitter. There’s a strain of Harley Quinn fandom that creeps me right the heck out. It’s when they start idealizing and romanticizing her relationship with the Joker. They're not two people madly in love and united against the world. She’s obsessively codependent and he’s a sociopath and thinks of her as a mere tool. And the whole tragedy of Harley Quinn, the thing that makes her so easy to relate to and sympathize with, is her hopeless infatuation with someone who can never, ever love her back (because he's thoroughly obsessed with someone else). But when the author suddenly attempts to make this tragic, one-sided attraction appear reciprocated, to comply with whatever vision they might have had, it is no longer half as interesting and affecting. Because then they're simply taking away the foundation of Harley's character and also the one thing that makes her so easy to identify with. Besides, you can't really manage to somehow twist the Joker into loving Harley, without simultaneously makeing him blatantly OOC.

A what-if story should have just enough to grab onto to make you see these versions of characters that you care about, but contextualized differently (that's a reason The Dark Knight Returns is so popular because it's still Batman). Here, the characters are so wildly different, enough so that they could be completely new characters. And the fact that it feels like I'm reading a fanfic where in other Batman stories, even elseworlds, it just feels like I'm reading a Batman story. more

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Afre - Nov 25, 2020

To your review I would like to ask, why are you reading Murphyverse comic if you don't like how these characters are written in this universe or how their history is altered?

Bat-ears99 - Nov 25, 2020

Hi! As a die hard Joker fan I make a point to read everything that has Joker in it. That also include every spinoff based on the character, including Elseworlds, graphic novels and whatnot. I have already read every Joker-related comic titles ever made, and now I'm starting reading the current stuff.

Afre - Nov 25, 2020

Oh, that makes sense. For me this take is refreshing, as it is something new, but I can see that for you it is too OOC since it does break the Joker "mythology" in many ways.

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