She's relaxing, watching over Gotham. She's done with Suicide Squad and now she's back to being on her own. Back to her old life. Commence the memories! Harley reminisces to the time way in the past before she became a therapist. She's the only person in her family to go to college, even getting a doctorate in criminal psychology. even though her family wasn't really supportive of this.
When she graduated she started at a well known hospital at Gotham. These cases of "insanity" wasn't enough for her, she needed more. So she moves onto something bigger! Arkham Asylum. She wanted to work onto patients that the "best doctors in Gotham" gave up on. She interviews Two Face, the Riddler and the Joker. But she wasn't getting through with these patients, so she takes a more direct approach to attempting to understand the patients. Harley/Harleen dresses herself as her "future" crazy self with the pink and black hair. But the other staff of Arkham doesn't agree with her therapy technique and this pushes her to help Joker escape. Leading to her new "origin"...
This is when she gets pushed into the chemicals turning her hair red and blue and her skin white, permanently. Also it seems like she has racoon eyes permanently...but it's not like that in her comic series. Her image changes to every comic. While she's out walking the town in her glazed-over-astonished look on her face. She comes across a few field hockey girls and she kills them and steal a pair of thigh high socks. Then she steals a pair of shorts from a runner, a corset top from a girl, and the infamous big hammer.
In Harley's mind this is the time for her to live her life, she's free from the bound of rules. She doesn't want to be contained within a "box". She doesn't want to be stuck to those standards.
A cop, you can probably guess who it is, shows up to a "Good Deeds" place with boxes of video game systems to give away. All the kids go crazy over this and attack the large pile of systems. Back at the police station, another cop greets "Bob" and find out it's not him! Gasp. Harley pulls out a dynamite and blows up the station. She sits and observes her latest act of mischief, and ponders. "It's liberating not to have to think. But the downside of this is that I feel numb."
Back to where we started where she is sitting on the gargoyle. She's on the phone with a guy named Joe. She tells him to get the system update ready, which he agrees to and sends it off. All around Gotham, people with the game systems are downloading a new "update". When the update finishes all these explosions happen around the city.
"You can put anything in a box. A game. A conscience. A thought. Hate." While she's watching the explosion, Deadshot comes up to her and says about being aimless.
Opinion
This comic was mainly a origins story of Harley Quinn. I don't know what the other villain month comics were about, so I can't say much about that. And they used the new 52 origin story with the chemical changing her. But other than the change to her turning into the white-skinned Harley, it was interesting to see her back story. And the first time I read this comic, I missed a couple of pages, I don't know how that happened. lol
I need to read into suicide squad to see her story with that. I've only read volume one of the trade paperback. And obviously I've been reading her latest "on her own" comic series. So far, I prefer the New 52 Harley Quinn series.
This is an old comic that Mark found an extra copy, so he decided pick up a copy for me.
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