The unlikely, fantabulous rise of Harley Quinn.
The sequel to 2019’s origin story—in which we learned how the ills of Gotham produced a demented clown—does not bring it all back to the eternal melodrama between Bruce Wayne and his fun-house mirror. Instead, the figure reaching into the depths of Joker’s soul is Harley Quinn, his sidekick, collaborator, and paramour, who is often drawn with quite a bit of levity in the DC universe. Here, though, she is given a tall order.
The improbability of the Harley Quinn renaissance can’t be understated, especially when you compare her with her peers. Superman was conceived in 1938, at a moment when the basic grammar of comic books was still being formulated. The team behind the character, author Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, blessed him with a bulletproof physique, Hollywood looks, and, most importantly, an indefatigable goody-two-shoes moral code.
Nobody saw this coming. The comic-book industry has historically struggled to mint new stars, resulting in the ossified gerontocracy that has held the superhero genre hostage for years. But unlike her DC peers, and even the bulk of Marvel’s Avengers, Harley Quinn crawled out of the primordial soup long after superhero comics’ big bang. She debuted in 1992, as an ancillary criminal on Fox’sand initially, she was slated for exactly one episode. Harley was positioned as the Joker’s psychopathic fangirl, stitched up in a red-and-black catsuit, dark lipstick, and a jester’s cap, which paired neatly with her boss’s purple tuxedo.
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