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Harley Quinn (2021)
Harley Quinn - Bd. 2 (4. Serie): Chaos im Multiversum
MORD UND TOTSCHLAGIM MULTIVERSUM
Die wahnwitzigen Abenteuer in den zahllosen Welten des Multiversums nehmen kein Ende! Nach der Rückkehr ihrer geliebten Ivy sollte es Harley eigentlich prima gehen, aber dummerweise verheimlicht Harley ihrer Partnerin, mit welchen Problemen und Gefahren sie sich rumschlagen muss. Ihr richterlich verfügter neuer Job als Dozentin ist dabei das geringste Problem. Die Situation eskaliert, als Prof. Harley Quinn ihre Studierenden auf die Abschlussprüfungen vorbereiten will, und sie und ihre Klasse plötzlich auf die Erde 48 versetzt werden, weil das Multiversum auseinanderzubrechen droht. Gleichzeitig werden auf zahllosen Erden Harleys ermordet …
Harleys neueste Comic-Abenteuer, so bunt und abgefahren wie noch nie, dank Tini Howard (Catwoman), Sweeney Boo ( Urban Legends), Kelley Jones (Batman & Red Rain), Logan Faerber (Harley zerlegt das DC-Universum) und vielen anderen.
ENTHÄ HARLEY QUINN (2021) 32-37
Die wahnwitzigen Abenteuer in den zahllosen Welten des Multiversums nehmen kein Ende! Nach der Rückkehr ihrer geliebten Ivy sollte es Harley eigentlich prima gehen, aber dummerweise verheimlicht Harley ihrer Partnerin, mit welchen Problemen und Gefahren sie sich rumschlagen muss. Ihr richterlich verfügter neuer Job als Dozentin ist dabei das geringste Problem. Die Situation eskaliert, als Prof. Harley Quinn ihre Studierenden auf die Abschlussprüfungen vorbereiten will, und sie und ihre Klasse plötzlich auf die Erde 48 versetzt werden, weil das Multiversum auseinanderzubrechen droht. Gleichzeitig werden auf zahllosen Erden Harleys ermordet …
Harleys neueste Comic-Abenteuer, so bunt und abgefahren wie noch nie, dank Tini Howard (Catwoman), Sweeney Boo ( Urban Legends), Kelley Jones (Batman & Red Rain), Logan Faerber (Harley zerlegt das DC-Universum) und vielen anderen.
ENTHÄ HARLEY QUINN (2021) 32-37
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First published November 19, 2024
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January 16, 2025
The main story was a total mess with a colour palette that was so ugly it made me put down the book several times to give my eyes a break from it. I only rated this as highly as I did because I liked quite a few of the one-shot backup strips.
2.6 stars
2.6 stars
June 5, 2025
Felt like it was trying a little hard at times but still mostly fun.
December 25, 2025
This is soooo hard to rate because on the one hand I've been LOVING reading this run of Harley Quinn, it's some of the most interesting, funny, beautiful, etc etc comics I've read in a while. I was reallyyy in love with a LOT of the mini-comics at the end of the issues, they play with genre SO WELL do so many clever and interesting things, have incredible art (fully painted swords & sorcery fantasy, junji-ito inspired horror, meta-exploration of character/reader/author). HOWEVER the main plot is abominably stupid and I could barely follow it. I complained about some of the more stupid multiverse shit in the last volume and it only gets ramped up. I want less of Warworld, less of Lady Quark, and a tempered amount of Brother Eyes. Harleys are being killed across the multiverse: interesting. AI version of Harley that has been trained off of her: also interesting. Neither of these elements being the focus of a complicated plot of a race (?) of robots (?) trying to break out from being side characters in their narratives (?) was just a bad choice, in my opinion. The thing is that despite all this stuff being so so stupid and me not enjoying the main plot, I just loved the art and all the different dreams and stories Harley ended up in so much, that overall I really really enjoyed this and am excited to read the next one, nonetheless. Like, I was about to rate this 5-stars on the high of finishing it before I remembered the events that actually occurred and I remembered oh yes. That was bad. Soooo I don't know. It objectively doesn't deserve the 4-stars but it's the most I'm willing to reduce it. I did enjoy it!! It was a lot of fun and I'm excited to read more!!!
July 12, 2025
2.5 There was is a good message here, buried under stupid upright hyenas and robots and blinding color schemes... Really, somewhere, is the Harley we know, but she's buried so far down under this dreck you have to squint to see her. Which I guess is okay because the art will leave you squinting anyway.
March 26, 2025
What a slog to get through!
Tini Howard didn't pace this volume well nor came up with a fluid, coherent story. And Sweeney Boo's art is not appealing to me.
Some of the backups were fun, but were most certainly filler. It would've been cool if they came back in the final issue dream sequence (like the cover suggests), but they don't.
Tini Howard didn't pace this volume well nor came up with a fluid, coherent story. And Sweeney Boo's art is not appealing to me.
Some of the backups were fun, but were most certainly filler. It would've been cool if they came back in the final issue dream sequence (like the cover suggests), but they don't.
June 21, 2025
I read the third volume before the second volume of this run of 'Harley Quinn' - the former happened to be in my local mall's comic shop - and I'm glad I did. It turned out to be fate, because I don't think I would have carried on with this series after reading 'Harley Quinn, Vol. 2: Eye Don’t Like Me'.
It's bizarre and out-there like the first volume, but it's not always as fun. Here, it's just messy, incoherent, confusing, haphazard, jumpy, and fast paced at a breakneck speed. There're blatant plot holes and editorial issues. There's barely any time for the reader to breathe, and to process what the hell is even happening and why. Almost nothing and no one is explained properly. 65% of the time reading I was like, "Who are these characters, and why should I care?"
What is the deal with the multiverse/Warworld hyenas? What are they doing and why? What is their motive? Why should I care about a clearly evil place like Warworld anyway? And why are Harley's community college students, who ostensibly play bigger roles this time round, so underdeveloped with barely a presence?
The first issue, right off the bat, unintentionally sets up some major problems to come: It immediately introduces us, very poorly, to Janet, who you won't know at all unless you've continuously read Poison Ivy's comic run at the time, and she is never seen or mentioned again after the first four pages. What a waste.
Speaking of, the ending of the volume is one of the most abrupt I have ever seen in a comic. It's like the creative team were given only two pages left to wrap everything up. It's utterly underwhelming, frustrating, and renders the rest of the volume's arc pointless.
The arc being, supposedly, Harley Quinn versus a multidimensional Brother Eye.
Not that it matters, but slight spoilers ahead:
Brother Eye or the Brother Eyes or the Brothers Eye or whatever is a poorly established, poorly explained villain and threat. They're not one big mastermind behind everything, but a boring, generic collective. There is no mystery reveal to this hivemind; they exist and they want to use and screw with Harley - something about how she's a potentially effing powerful weapon because she's handled the most trauma out of everyone in the DC multiverse, which, like, um, what? no? - like a multidimensional bully, and that's it! By the end, the inconsistently-named-and-blamed-and-claimed villain's forced assimilations and murders are forgotten about!
Even Harley isn't like herself, at least at the beginning, where she is inexplicably mellow, forgiving, quiet, and just goes along with the multiverse WTF-ness, and doesn't interject any arsehole character's longwinded speeches with her quippy dialogue and jokes. She gets over this, thankfully, but what was with her character in the first issue? At least she ends that by getting snappy and sick of "multiversal crap. I have been doing that nonstop."
Yeah, Harley, the readers sympathise.
So 'Harley Quinn, Vol. 2: Eye Don’t Like Me' is an off and random mess of a comic.
Still, it is definitely not without its positives:
The artwork is very nice, colourful, and expressive. Different artists got to work on this, and it shows off their talents beautifully.
There is a new character, a robot multiversal P.I. named Lux Kirby, who is very interesting, adorable, and a new partner and friend to Harley. They are also nonbinary.
Kevin returns! He plays an important, humanising part in the story, and he remains important to Harley's character. (Though why do neither Lux nor Kevin appear in the third volume?).
Harley's dream sequences in between the issues are lightyears more interesting than the main plot. They're so fresh, varied, creative and fun, and awesome to look at!
There is a cartoony universe - the one that features Looney Tunes-esque animal characters such as Captain Carrot - where Harley and Ivy are Harely Quinn and Python Ivy. Why couldn't we have spent more time in fun multiverses, like the previous volume?!
And like with volumes 1 and 3, volume 2 is awash with love for Harlivy. Harley and Ivy's relationship is one of, if not the top highlight, of this run of 'Harley Quinn'. They're a brilliant couple, lovingly and thoughtfully written. They're the one reliable and satisfactory constant in the series.
In conclusion, 'Harley Quinn, Vol. 2: Eye Don’t Like Me' is disappointing and not well written, but it is Harley Quinn, and she kicks arse and saves the multiverse yet again, and learns to love herself again, and that others love her too, for who she is. It is a confidence booster and a depression beater in comic book form, even though the ending is far too rushed and tacked on for it to leave much of a lasting impression.
Meta commentary about Harley's popularity is included, and it links to Oh Brother Eye's fixation on her. However, as I have to keep repeating myself, this ends up not mattering in the grand scheme of things.
You can read 'Harley Quinn Vol. 3: Clown About Town' after 'Harley Quinn, Vol. 1: Girl in a Crisis' and not miss anything important - I'm happy the series vastly improves after the middle volume. Only read 'Harley Quinn, Vol. 2: Eye Don’t Like Me' if you're a completionist and love Harley Quinn that much, like me.
It's like a guilty pleasure, and guilty ride for little old moi. A least some of the jokes and dialogue are good.
Final Score: 3/5
It's bizarre and out-there like the first volume, but it's not always as fun. Here, it's just messy, incoherent, confusing, haphazard, jumpy, and fast paced at a breakneck speed. There're blatant plot holes and editorial issues. There's barely any time for the reader to breathe, and to process what the hell is even happening and why. Almost nothing and no one is explained properly. 65% of the time reading I was like, "Who are these characters, and why should I care?"
What is the deal with the multiverse/Warworld hyenas? What are they doing and why? What is their motive? Why should I care about a clearly evil place like Warworld anyway? And why are Harley's community college students, who ostensibly play bigger roles this time round, so underdeveloped with barely a presence?
The first issue, right off the bat, unintentionally sets up some major problems to come: It immediately introduces us, very poorly, to Janet, who you won't know at all unless you've continuously read Poison Ivy's comic run at the time, and she is never seen or mentioned again after the first four pages. What a waste.
Speaking of, the ending of the volume is one of the most abrupt I have ever seen in a comic. It's like the creative team were given only two pages left to wrap everything up. It's utterly underwhelming, frustrating, and renders the rest of the volume's arc pointless.
The arc being, supposedly, Harley Quinn versus a multidimensional Brother Eye.
Not that it matters, but slight spoilers ahead:
Brother Eye or the Brother Eyes or the Brothers Eye or whatever is a poorly established, poorly explained villain and threat. They're not one big mastermind behind everything, but a boring, generic collective. There is no mystery reveal to this hivemind; they exist and they want to use and screw with Harley - something about how she's a potentially effing powerful weapon because she's handled the most trauma out of everyone in the DC multiverse, which, like, um, what? no? - like a multidimensional bully, and that's it! By the end, the inconsistently-named-and-blamed-and-claimed villain's forced assimilations and murders are forgotten about!
Even Harley isn't like herself, at least at the beginning, where she is inexplicably mellow, forgiving, quiet, and just goes along with the multiverse WTF-ness, and doesn't interject any arsehole character's longwinded speeches with her quippy dialogue and jokes. She gets over this, thankfully, but what was with her character in the first issue? At least she ends that by getting snappy and sick of "multiversal crap. I have been doing that nonstop."
Yeah, Harley, the readers sympathise.
So 'Harley Quinn, Vol. 2: Eye Don’t Like Me' is an off and random mess of a comic.
Still, it is definitely not without its positives:
The artwork is very nice, colourful, and expressive. Different artists got to work on this, and it shows off their talents beautifully.
There is a new character, a robot multiversal P.I. named Lux Kirby, who is very interesting, adorable, and a new partner and friend to Harley. They are also nonbinary.
Kevin returns! He plays an important, humanising part in the story, and he remains important to Harley's character. (Though why do neither Lux nor Kevin appear in the third volume?).
Harley's dream sequences in between the issues are lightyears more interesting than the main plot. They're so fresh, varied, creative and fun, and awesome to look at!
There is a cartoony universe - the one that features Looney Tunes-esque animal characters such as Captain Carrot - where Harley and Ivy are Harely Quinn and Python Ivy. Why couldn't we have spent more time in fun multiverses, like the previous volume?!
And like with volumes 1 and 3, volume 2 is awash with love for Harlivy. Harley and Ivy's relationship is one of, if not the top highlight, of this run of 'Harley Quinn'. They're a brilliant couple, lovingly and thoughtfully written. They're the one reliable and satisfactory constant in the series.
In conclusion, 'Harley Quinn, Vol. 2: Eye Don’t Like Me' is disappointing and not well written, but it is Harley Quinn, and she kicks arse and saves the multiverse yet again, and learns to love herself again, and that others love her too, for who she is. It is a confidence booster and a depression beater in comic book form, even though the ending is far too rushed and tacked on for it to leave much of a lasting impression.
Meta commentary about Harley's popularity is included, and it links to Oh Brother Eye's fixation on her. However, as I have to keep repeating myself, this ends up not mattering in the grand scheme of things.
You can read 'Harley Quinn Vol. 3: Clown About Town' after 'Harley Quinn, Vol. 1: Girl in a Crisis' and not miss anything important - I'm happy the series vastly improves after the middle volume. Only read 'Harley Quinn, Vol. 2: Eye Don’t Like Me' if you're a completionist and love Harley Quinn that much, like me.
It's like a guilty pleasure, and guilty ride for little old moi. A least some of the jokes and dialogue are good.
Final Score: 3/5
July 7, 2024
Repeat after me, class...
"I'm good enough just as I am. I'm not perfect. My decisions are MINE."
Things have gone sideways for Harley. The multiverse, seemingly has it in for her (and every Harley in existence). Not even her time with Lady Qwark (Crisis on Infinite Earths shoutout!) on Earth-48 has done much in the way of explaining what's going on.
All we've been told is that Harley wields chaos like a paintbrush and she could end the multiverse if not properly contained. Can she find out who is targeting her? (with the help of multiversal detective, Lux Kirby)
How does this fit in with her court appointed teaching duties, you ask? Oh...ummm...
Buckle up, kids. It's weird ass trip through a Harley themed multiverse (maybe the world survives?)
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Bonus: The Harley Quinn 'dream' one shots are pretty amusing and WILD
Bonus Bonus: This pastel/painted style works well for the randomness, but I don't know how sustainable it is as a background/basis for future stories...
"I'm good enough just as I am. I'm not perfect. My decisions are MINE."
Things have gone sideways for Harley. The multiverse, seemingly has it in for her (and every Harley in existence). Not even her time with Lady Qwark (Crisis on Infinite Earths shoutout!) on Earth-48 has done much in the way of explaining what's going on.
All we've been told is that Harley wields chaos like a paintbrush and she could end the multiverse if not properly contained. Can she find out who is targeting her? (with the help of multiversal detective, Lux Kirby)
How does this fit in with her court appointed teaching duties, you ask? Oh...ummm...
Buckle up, kids. It's weird ass trip through a Harley themed multiverse (maybe the world survives?)
===
Bonus: The Harley Quinn 'dream' one shots are pretty amusing and WILD
Bonus Bonus: This pastel/painted style works well for the randomness, but I don't know how sustainable it is as a background/basis for future stories...
November 16, 2024
This is the second half of the story that started in the last volume, bringing Harley into conflict with some multiversal problems.
And speaking of problems, this volume has the same ones as the previous. Harley just doesn't work in this setting, no matter how much writers try to force her into it. OMACs and Lady Quark and Captain Carrot aren't going to make it any better, it just takes Harley further and further away from the places where she thrives.
I'm all for putting characters in new locations, but sometimes it just doesn't work, and this is absolutely one of those times.
And speaking of problems, this volume has the same ones as the previous. Harley just doesn't work in this setting, no matter how much writers try to force her into it. OMACs and Lady Quark and Captain Carrot aren't going to make it any better, it just takes Harley further and further away from the places where she thrives.
I'm all for putting characters in new locations, but sometimes it just doesn't work, and this is absolutely one of those times.
March 26, 2025
Why does Goodreads have two entries for this book?
What a slog to get through!
Tini Howard didn't pace this volume well nor came up with a fluid, coherent story. And Sweeney Boo's art is not appealing to me.
Some of the backups were fun, but were most certainly filler. It would've been cool if they came back in the final issue dream sequence (like the cover suggests), but they don't.
What a slog to get through!
Tini Howard didn't pace this volume well nor came up with a fluid, coherent story. And Sweeney Boo's art is not appealing to me.
Some of the backups were fun, but were most certainly filler. It would've been cool if they came back in the final issue dream sequence (like the cover suggests), but they don't.
June 15, 2026
This multiversal plot completely lost me where I no longer even knew what was happening. The backup story dream sequences were a complete waste of time and actually made the book worse instead of giving you a reason to pay an extra dollar for each issue. The only saving grace here was Sweeney Boo's art.
April 8, 2026
Tini Howard you are on thin fuckin ice girl
May 4, 2026
A mentally unstable psychiatrist is actually realistic
March 27, 2025
Well, this is a bit of a mess. It sees Harley running about between different alternate realities while trying to avoid killers that somehow want to use her insanity as a weapon. Or something like that - I'm not sure that the plot really makes much sense. It's weird certainly, and, given this is Harley we're talking about, there's some benefit in that. And there are a bunch of dream sequences showcasing other alternate realities that it's implied will have some connection to the wider plot, but don't (so far as I can tell). There are some good moments with Ivy and some with Harley trying to come to terms with her past and potential future, which pull it up to 3 stars rather than 2. The cartoonish artwork fits the style of the story, and changes with some of the realities, but that's not a massive plus. Overall, quite missable. And confused.
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