Harley
Quinn, Comic Book Superstar
Tue May 2
10:21:58 2000
Yep, she's getting her own
series. Will she be able to take flight all by her
lonesome? Only time will tell. Anyway, here's some
info about it from the Comics Continuum:
Writer Karl Kesel said that artist Terry Dodson is
"doing some amazing, amazing work" on the
upcoming Harley Quinn series from DC Comics.
"I'm riding his coattails to success," Kesel
said. "This is book perfectly suited for Terry,
who is one of the best good-girl artists out there.
She's one of the best bad girls out there."
Mike Carlin, executive editor at DC, said that Harley
Quinn is going to be "an unusual series."
"The tone of this is dealing with somebody who is
not all there, and it enables Karl to go crazier than
usual, which is great," Carlin said.
Said Kesel: "The problem with Harley Quinn is
she's insane and you really can't fix that in her
because you lose an essential part of the character.
With most characters, if they have a problem, of the
course of six months or a year, you fix it and give
them a new problem. But this is a problem you can't
fix with Harley. You have to deal with it in an
ongoing way.
"We also had to find ways to transform from an
animated character to a real-world character. Although
Paul Dini had put a lot of that in place, there were
still a lot of conflicts to deal with.
"And even beyond that, taking her from second
banana to the Joker to a character who could actually
support her own series. All of those were really
interesting obstacles to overcome, and I think we've
come up with some really unique solutions to it."
Hatter

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