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Harley Quinn (2016) #6

Harley Quinn, Vol. 6: Angry Bird

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Harley Quinn and her motley crew of Coney Island misfits have fought hella hard—and sacrificed a helluva lot—to make the Mistress of Mayhem the undisputed queen of the Brooklyn streets. But when an airborne predator and a waterfowl most foul make their moves on her turf, what’s a girl to do?

First, Harley’s friends report sightings of a hideous winged creature kidnapping one of their own. It’s a bat! It’s a man! It’s a Man-Bat! Wait till he gets a load of…Quinn-Bat?!

Then, one of Gotham City’s greatest criminal masterminds, the Penguin, has clamped his beak on the Big Apple, and he won’t let go without a fight. As an army of Harley’s old frenemies from the Gotham underworld arrives to conquer Coney Island for their aquatic overlord, she won’t know whom to trust—or whom to beat completely friggin’ senseless.

Can Harley and company beat back the great Brooklyn invasion and save her adopted city from falling into the Penguin’s hands…er, wings…uh, talons? Oh, you get the picture. Now read the dang book!

The brand-new creative team of writer Frank Tieri (Harley Quinn And Her Gang Of Harleys) and artists Inaki Miranda (Fairest: From The Pages Of Fables) and Mirka Andolfo (DC Comics Bombshells) toss pretty much the entire Batman rogues gallery at our hellacious heroine.

Collects: Harley Quinn #35-42!

189 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 21, 2018

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Profile Image for Chad.
10.4k reviews1,060 followers
October 11, 2018
The Penguin is coming to take over Gotham and fooled the rest of Batman's rogues to come with him. This is mass chaos with Harley beating up a ton of bat Villains including guys like Egghead and King Tut from Batman '66. Tieri finds time to throw in some character moments as well as Harley deals with the death of her beau. Finally, there is an Old Man Harley / Mad Max type story that is just OK.
Profile Image for Wing Kee.
2,091 reviews37 followers
September 28, 2018
3.5! A good story and a really bad single issue.

World: The art is okay, it’s a bit all over the place with the multiple artists even in single issues and it is a big jarring. I’m more okay with this in a Harley book cause the book is already so nuts, in another situation (if this were like Superman) than I would be really annoyed. The world building is good, we had the goodbye that was Conner and Palmiotti’s ‘Vote Harley’ story last time and this one is Tieri who has written a lot for the duo before during their Harley run. The pieces we see Tieri use here makes sense and it’s part of the long run and with all the nice little piece coming together for a final story it’s fun. Plus there is the huge number of weird and odd DCU Gotham villains which makes this even more enjoyable.

Story: I like that that emotional core of this story makes sense. It’s Harley trying to deal with the grief of Mason dying and the first issues with her in her apartment saying she’s happy was so well done. Then we have the insane crazy story that is the Penguin and all those rogues and it’s just fun. It’s not great, it’s solidly written and paced well but there are some stale jokes and the janky art but to deal with. It’s solid and par for the course for this series. The Old Woman Harley was not that good, this issue was janky, was weird and not the best for a Mad Max story, ending on that note was kinda pretty horrible. It’s be done better recently with Old Man Laura (X23) cause that had an emotional beat, this one was just odd.

Characters: Harley does have a little arc here and it’s good, it’s her dealing with Mason and her reaction which I like very much. Then there is the gang of characters which she has surrounded herself with and them having little moments which makes for good banter and chemistry. The Gotham rogue coming to town was great as they were over the top and the rogues that Tieri chose were good and fun.

A fun little send off for Tieri which I enjoyed and a single issue that really sucked.

Onwards to the next book!
Profile Image for Alex E.
1,721 reviews12 followers
November 8, 2021
Harley decides to move out of Coney Island after feeling like a bit of a failure after the events of the last volume. She tries to "protect" her friends by doing what is most safe for them.... which is getting as far away from them as possible.

Well not too far, just to New York, but still, she's running away for fear of getting more friends hurt or killed. This massively backfires as the Penguin and a whole slew of Gotham villains move in and begin to destroy the place. Turns out that Harley was tricked into inhaling a truth serum of sorts which is what made her leave in the first place. She comes back and with the help of all of her friends, take the villains down to reclaim Coney Island as hers once more.

I got to tell ya, this title is suddenly growing very stale to me. I don't know if its all the side characters and how weird and quirky they are and have to be constantly, or the forced jokes, or maybe I just ran my limit on the title. I found myself struggling to not only get through this one, but also care about the characters in general. Harley has built up her own world filled with characters and situations that are constantly referenced, and it might be time to do something fresh instead. Or maybe I just need to drop the book. Either way, I wouldn't say this was a bad volume, but just... more of the same of what we have seen so far.

If you are still into the whole Harley vibe, then this one will be great. If you are getting burnt out on it, then this will not be to your liking.
Profile Image for Robert.
4,595 reviews32 followers
October 14, 2018
Another acceptably average title - not really tied into the larger DC universe so free to actually entertain readers rather than forced to serve an overarching plot.
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Author 2 books39 followers
May 26, 2022
Harleen is back and she’s not happy. No, really. She’s sad, depressed, mopey, down in the dumps. She’s so different from the Harley Quinn we usually know that it’s quite disturbing, far more disturbing than when she was eating fast food with zombie blood and guts under her fingernails. Well, maybe not quite that bad.

Depressed Harley aside, the gang is able to get in trouble all on their own. This volume showcases their strengths, such as they are. Harleen’s crew is as prone to swinging and fighting as she is. Figuring out a mystery and resolving it cleanly? Not so much. Hilarity ensues when Harleen’s solo exploration into missing people goes horribly awry and results in one miscreant getting captured while another one escapes. Oh dear.

Another familiar villain returns and in grand style, too. In a scene that anybody with sense could have seen coming (isn’t it always a bad sign when everybody in your particular line of work turns up in one place?), Oswald Cobblepot, a.k.a. Penguin, dispenses with his competition and sets up home in New York City.

The Penguin is one of those Batman characters with a long history. Like the Riddler, Joker and Catwoman, he’s been around for decades. But he has come a long way from the goofy caricature played by Burgess Meredith on the 1960s television show. This Cobblepot is cunning, capable and ambitious. He’s insane but not interested in mayhem, violence or random cruelty like some of his counterparts. Now he’s expanding his territory and we get to see his ruthless efficiency firsthand. (He’s also rather stylish. I don’t know anybody who eats hot dogs in a bun with a knife and fork.)

However, he’s surrounded himself with a mixed gaggle of goony villains, on par with Harley’s assorted grab bag of friends and partners in lunacy. Remember the Condiment King? Yeah, he’s back along with a host of other wingnuts that I had to look up online. Worth a Google!

This puts this comic firmly in the funny-nutty category, a welcome respite from the gloom-and-doom atmosphere of the opening story. There’s manic mayhem, gaga goings-on and wholesale hazards galore. But there’s seriousness beneath all the goofy hijinks. Behind the idiocy of hiring such goofballs to work for him, Cobblepot has a serious and sinister plan.

The story pulls one surprise after another. The bad guys seem to be in plain sight until they’re not. Harley’s team is being pulled apart and Harley herself is being kept busier than a one-legged man in a butt-kicking contest.

The plot kicks into high gear, the action rachets up like bodies in a ten-car pileup, people switch sides and the baddies get what’s coming to them. Harleen has a long overdue talk with her makeshift family. It’s so beautiful. It’ll bring tears to your eyes. Whether they’re tears of sympathy or laughter…meh, who cares.
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2,674 reviews51 followers
December 12, 2019
The final book in the Harley Quinn/Coney Island run isn't terrible, but it's not a great send off. This book sees the writing shift to a new author who would use the last issue in the book to set up his own miniseries. Connor and Palmiotti have done weird AU stuff before but here, it felt like a cheap gimmick to get the loyal readers to follow Tieri to Old Lady Harley. I was really hoping this run would end on a bang, but alas, it was more like a loud pop.
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169 reviews
December 3, 2024
This was a bit of a mediocre ending for what could have been an epic conclusion, but such is life. At least we received a conclusion to this series, no matter how obscure or ridiculous it was 🙄.

The main premise of this arc is that Harley Quinn is not herself and is in a state of intense mourning for the death of her close friend Mason. Harley attempts to rid herself of all responsibilities in Coney Island, including her Gang of Harleys and countless tenants, by moving out to Manhattan as a Rent-a-Harley to take down grand major player villains. This goes as expected, which is pretty terrible, but that all changes once Gotham Batman level villain begins to take over Coney Island as they were invited by Penguin as a part of his Coney Island Casino initiative.

What follows is Penguin does what he always does but with a whole lot less class, which is to take over all of Coney Island by inviting all of the Coney Island Mob heads/leaders top men and killing them all via Giant Penguin attack (yes, it is that ridiculous 🙄). What follows is a major scramble as the Gang of Harley tries to manage the mess that the Gotham villains, including Mister Freeze, Mad Hatter, Killer Croc, Condiment King, Bizarro Batman...etc are causing. Meanwhile, Red Tool who has been keeping tabs on Harley takes note of this and before long some of this news hits Harley over the head as Spoondale tries to manage the threats from a cop perspective this causing Harley to go a daily rampage to deal with the overflow which eventually leads its way back to Coney Island.

Harley eventually goes back to Coney Island and makes a deal with Ventriloquist/Scar-Face, who has to take over the gang of Mobsters. What follows is an epic-ish battle against Penguin and his few remaining followers post a heart-to-heart talk between Harley and her friends. Penguin is taken down, and Coney Island is restored....hooray.

There is also this whole side plot involving Harley having been drugged by Penguin's underling Hugo Strange by impersonating her friend Frank Frank who convinces her to leave Coney Island for Manhattan in the first place then attempts to claim full mind control over Quinn but is thwarted by Red Tool. Also, Coach gets word of this via a deep investigation and takes action, which results in her getting kidnapped and imprisoned with the real Frank Frank, but both are freed in the end.

We also have two seemingly unrelated side plots involving Harley Quinn being turned into a Man-Bat creature along with her pal Tony, who goes missing (it's a whole thing) and a Mad-Max dystopia future state destroyed Coney Island/NYC concluding story.

Overall, this wasn't really a bad concluding volume, but it does drag out longer than it should have, and the whole truth serum/drug thing was wacky, along with the whole depressing underlying tone and lack of a cohesive plot. I don't know; this series has moments of intense joy or greatness, then it just kinda falls on its face at the end. I have come to enjoy the wackiness and crazy antics of Harley Quinn over the years, but this series did not do her justice. Here's hoping the latest Dawn of DC arc is better 🤞. 6.5/10 🌟.
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Profile Image for Brandon.
598 reviews9 followers
November 2, 2018
First, I have to say that I was a little apprehensive about this book. Bringing a completely new creative team to the title will do that. I loved the reinvention of this character that the previous team brought. The craziness, humor, cast of characters all hit the mark with me and I was expecting a shock to my system. But after reading this book I'm happy to say that that was not the case. While it's true to say that the craziness isn't as crazy as it was and that the humor is toned down this book still put a smile on my face and there's plenty of wackiness to go around. Harley a little glum in this book but the supporting cast more than make up for that. The Gang of Harleys play a major part as does Big Tony and Eggy. That's a plus. I always felt that the chemistry between Harley and her cast of misfits was underused by Palmiotti and Conner. That concern is put to rest here. Some of the best moments in this book don't even involve Harley and I hope that continues. The writing is also strong although the artwork - using a multitude of artists - is all over the place.


I had my doubts about this book but I'm glad to say that they were all allayed. Frank Tieri managed to stay true to the character in this universe and even strengthen some of the supporting cast. Even with the humor being toned down and the craziness being dulled this book is still full of energy and put a smile on my face. The new creative team will take this character where they want her to go but if the future volumes stay true to the character - as this one did - I can see Harley being a favorite of mine for a long time to come.
Profile Image for Adam Fisher.
3,607 reviews24 followers
October 20, 2018
As Frank Tieri takes the reins on Harley Quinn, readers might expect the title to head downhill. Luckily, this is not the case. (Only thing that lessens is the copious amounts of dialogue that Amanda Conner was famous for! This is a good thing!)
First, dealing with the Langstroms' has Harley becoming Quinn-Bat when she is given the Man-Bat Serum. This proves to be the last stand for her (due to all the tragedy from the last couple Volumes), and she leaves Coney Island to go to New York City, wanting to be left alone, hoping that will prevent anyone else she knows from getting hurt. However, this is when Penguin makes his move...
Taking over Coney Island, Penguin has brought: Condiment King, Hugo Strange, Killer Croc, Killer Moth, King Shark, Mr. Freeze, Mad Hatter, Zsasz, Scarecrow,Ventriloquist, and others with him, turning Coney into a war zone. And though Harley is helping with crime a lot in NYC, once she hears Penguin is behind it all, she goes home to save the day.
The Volume ends with an "Old Lady Harley" story, parodying both Mad Max and Old Man Logan/Laura/Hawkeye/Deadpool/Spidey stuff that Marvel is doing. Very funny and action packed, just proves that Harley is a forced to be reckoned with, no matter her age.

A really strong post-Amanda Conner showing. Hope this title continues like this. Strong recommend.
Profile Image for Jamie Revell.
Author 5 books13 followers
June 26, 2019
Another series of mad adventures for the eponymous antihero, this time largely focussing on fighting various other villains from the Batman comics. This includes some serious ones (Penguin, Killer Croc, etc.) but also some mostly abandoned joke villains - including one who, so far as I know, only ever previously appeared in the '60s TV series. The humour and violence is offset by the theme of Harley still recovering from the events of the previous volume, and some good use of the supporting cast. It's by no means the strongest volume in this series, but it's still quite fun. The only major downside is the one-off special bolted on to the end, which riffs off Mad Max, but doesn't manage to go anywhere interesting, or particularly funny.
Profile Image for Phylicia.
273 reviews42 followers
January 13, 2021
It's good. It's interesting that Harley wants to do a solo job. Too bad her ad seems like a sex ad instead of a hired gun. She should have taped it better. Retape it.
I know it isn't a review on HER, but characters have the dumbest names let me tell you. They'll make me the Book Reader. My superpower is giving people a lot of useless book knowledge.
Harley's gang is back again when they haven't been.
In the last section, Harley to me looks like Rebecca from Tank Girl. BAD ASS! Even though she is su
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Profile Image for Daniel Butcher.
2,951 reviews2 followers
October 1, 2018
Honestly, the title even with the change of creative team isn't my style. I don't dig the supporting team of characters and even the Deadpool attempts to be funny don't work for me.

The last story literally feels like there was one issue late so they pulled something really different together.

Profile Image for Ridley.
288 reviews7 followers
September 27, 2021
3.5 stars.

As always I enjoyed the art, and the story. It was fun to see Harley take on some of the Batman villians and the pop culture reference to Mr Freeze about Arnold Schwarzenegger made me laugh. I didn't really feel the single issue "mad max harley" was necessary though. It was kind of weird and pulled me right out of the story that's been going on for the last 6 issues.
Profile Image for Jenny Clark.
3,225 reviews123 followers
July 30, 2022
A decent volume, though its more fights than anything, and I do like seeing the psychiatrist side of Harley. This is a decent ending volume in that it ties up a lot of stuff,and leads into Old Lady Harley, even though I dislike that series.
The new writer, Frank Tieri, does get rid of a lot of the juvenile humor and stupid exclamations Harley would come up with.
Profile Image for Crystal.
150 reviews
January 9, 2019
Harley Quinn's heart is always in the right place. Getting there is always an adventure. I love reading about Harley Quinn and all of her antics. She is a wonderful combination of villain, heroine, and overall bad-ass!
Profile Image for Taylor Madden.
105 reviews13 followers
January 12, 2019
I wasn’t a huge fan of the last issue, but I loved the rest.

Actual Rating: 4.5/5
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Profile Image for Gary Varga.
460 reviews
July 26, 2019
Same enjoyable Miss Quinn. Not quite as good as usual but entertaining nonetheless.
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4,964 reviews12 followers
March 29, 2020
What just happened? And where the hell is Ivy?!
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1,687 reviews9 followers
October 27, 2020
Giant Penguins and bat Harley. I enjoyed almost nothing about this volume. The only saving grace was the art by Andolfo.
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236 reviews4 followers
November 21, 2021
Angsty and isolated ain’t a good look on Harley. But it the end, I enjoyed the Angry Bird arc. It’s a shame that last issue was crap: tedious and boring with not gusting* character design.
1,065 reviews2 followers
July 15, 2023
Like the Last Harley Quinn it's not aimed at me
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