Gotham City Sirens: Unfit For Orbit

Gotham City Sirens (2024-)

by Leah Williams, Haining (Illustrator), Alex Guimarães (Color Artist)

The Gotham City Sirens are back, and they’re going intergalactic! A new space-themed nightclub has opened in Gotham and the Sirens (Harley Quinn, Catwoman, and Poison Ivy) are suspicious that there might be something devious (and alien!) under the surface.

There’s a hot new outer space-themed nightclub in Gotham City, and who better to rob it than Catwoman, Ivy, and Harley? But there’s more to this intergalactic discotheque than meets the eye(s), as the Sirens discover when they stumble headfirst into a plot to destroy the entire planet led by the club’s owner—the alien despot Despero! I hope you have good insurance, Gotham City, because you’re about to get wrecked. Special appearances by deadly DJs, hunky alien hotties, dancers dressed as aliens, mutant failures, one wild UFO, and lots and lots of fire!

Collects Gotham City Sirens: Unfit for Orbit #1-5, the entire event series written by Leah Williams and drawn by Haining!

Genres: Comics, Dc Comics, Graphic Novels, Superheroes

128 pages, Paperback

Published February 24, 2026

About the author

Leah Williams is an American writer originally from Oxford, Mississippi. She has written comics for Marvel, BOOM! Studios, Vault Comics, and is working on more. Her debut novel was a YA Fantasy book titled The Alchemy of Being Fourteen and she is currently writing its sequel, The Divinity of Hitting Fifteen. Leah has nonfiction articles and essays published in The Atlantic, Oprah Magazine, and Salon.

Reviews

[Chris Lemmerman]

There's a new nightclub in Gotham, and Selina wants to rob it. Enter Ivy and Harley as distractions, and- Wait, is that Despero?

The problem with the last series was that there were too many side characters sucking up page time, and the problem with this one is that the Sirens spend most of the five issues apart. The best part of the book is the first issue, where the three get to spend all their time together planning a heist, and after that, it's mostly just frantic fighting and yelling at one another. The fun of these three girls together is the chemistry and the lunacy that occurs when they ARE together, so splitting them up for 4 of the 5 issues defeats the object.

Haining's artwork is great though, matching the frenetic energy of the plot and never missing a step even with the weekly release schedule and 3 or 4 different colourists across the five issues. I've been a fan since Spirit World, and they've drawn some of the Poison Ivy series recently as well, so I know they've got the chops for a book like this.

Better than the last Gotham City Sirens mini that we got, but still not as good as I'd like.

[André Habet]

Hmm. Not the fun romp that the last one was. I’d read another volume. I enjoy most things with contemporary Ivy in them. Just keep the Sirens together, please.

[Jadyn❀]

Issue #5 doesn't seem to be on Goodreads, so I'll put my thoughts on the series, now that it's concluded, here. First, the art is gorgeous. The spacey costume designs for the Sirens are very fun (Selina's is my favorite, but Ivy's hair looked incredible through the whole series). I didn't really love the plot, as a big scary man exerting power to try to control women and compel them to do things they don't want to do isn't very fun to read as a woman. That being said, the girls still got to do some kicking butt, especially Ivy, and I always appreciate that. I hope for more Sirens adventures in the future.

[kookaburra o’clock]

I love this yearly tradition of hanging out with Leah Williams’ silly Sirens in these miniserieses. This one is way better than the first (I might even call it…. UNIRONICALLY GOOD?!) and has a really strong final issue, especially.

It’s kind of captures the vibe of watching the Harley Quinn show, if you’re a fan of that!

Read my review of the first mini here: Gotham City Siren: Trigger Happy

[Samantha Williams]

3.5 stars

[Julie]

I read Unfit for Orbit before Trigger Happy, and it sadly did not live up to the cowboy adventure for me. If you plan to read both, reading in reverse to the publishing order might be a smart idea, so the stories keep on improving.

Aside from the hard competition this series presents for itself, this comic is once again filled with a lot of action, a fun art style, and Gotham City Sirens shenanigans. The pace is pretty fast, so you almost fly through the story, but I had such a great time that I can‘t even be sad about that.

If you like Catwoman, Harley Quinn, and Poison Ivy, you will probably ejoy this read as well!

[pn]

I love this yearly tradition of hanging out with Leah Williams’ silly Sirens in these miniserieses. This one is way better than the first (I might even call it…. UNIRONICALLY GOOD?!) and has a really strong final issue, especially.

It’s kind of captures the vibe of watching the Harley Quinn show, if you’re a fan of that!

Read my review of the first mini here: Gotham City Siren: Trigger Happy

[Alex A]

I dreaded reading this after the first miniseries, but this one was a marked improvement!

Leah Williams' story, characterization of the Sirens, and dialogue are pretty good. I didn't love all of the random jokes and there's still some ass-pulls (Catwoman being okay; Harley's 'powers') but nothing too egregious.

Haining's art is great throughout but occasionally doesn't flow well during action sequences.

It's kind of strange that the TPB lists the cover artists - DC doesn't do that.

[Pickletape]

LOVED THIS !! Gotham City Sirens in space ravecore? YES PLEASE !! Also love the reference to Janet from HR from G Willow Wilson’s Poison Ivy run :D !!! I think the Sirens had really good moments of characterization too and they’re so funny together, I hope to see more of their adventures !

[MaHaha]

Art was cute. Loved when the girls got together and planned. Cute! The rest was just mayhem fight drama war fight fight fight bam bash etc. not my thing. Don’t care. Love the trio. Slayed. Ivy is gay. ? Slay. Ship Harley x Ivy. I’m sure they r canon somewhere.

[Lizzy DeMarco]

Loved the conclusion. Another great story for the GCS

[Sem]

A real downgrade on the previous GCS mini from Williams

[Josie 🥀]

This was a fun 3.5 stars.

[Robert Bussie]

This book is a step up front the first volume. Not much of a story; however it is a quick read with plenty of action. Overall 3.5 rating.

The art and coloring looks good.

[spencer]

3.5

[Geo Nelson]

Fun and cute read !

[Justin Biondo]

Honestly wouldn’t mind seeing Leah do the Sirens as a monthly book testing out new ideas but I wish this particular story was a bit more focused

[Jourdy]

Love my girls!!! This also might be my fave artists that’s drawn them I loooove how they’re all drawn!

[Metka Lordi]

Fun and the art is amazing