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Tweak says, "I'm your father!"

espanolbot (espanolbot) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-11 22:39:00

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char: harley quinn/harleen quinzel, publisher: dc comics

Harley Gets Annoyed

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	nonners 2009-10-11 10:01 pm UTC (link)
	That is adorable. Harley, we believe you! (Reply to this)

	2cards_short 2009-10-11 10:05 pm UTC (link)
	Don't you hate when lovers fight (Reply to this)

	jaybee3 2009-10-11 10:09 pm UTC (link)
	Well it's the truth. She's a ditz but a smart ditz. I wish more writers would get that. But the expression on the other girls faces were priceless. (Reply to this) (Thread)

espanolbot
2009-10-11 10:22 pm UTC (link)

One of the things I liked about her solo series was when she set up a practice under a fake name and showed she was actually a competant psychotherapist.

Even though people in numerous places implied she didn't earn the grades, she just seduced the professors into giving her high marks (the Mad Love comic and at the beginning of Harley's solo for example).

Personally I think that she'd have gotten high grades anyway, but the low self-image that caused her to fall for the Joker's flattery caused her to feel that she cheat to get the grades she'd have gotten anyway.

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	icon_uk 2009-10-11 10:30 pm UTC (link)
	Even though people in numerous places implied she didn't earn the grades, she just seduced the professors into giving her high marks (the Mad Love comic and at the beginning of Harley's solo for example). As Mad Love is her actual origin, it carries a LOT of weight. They did more than imply she did it, they outright showed it in the flashbacks. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	espanolbot 2009-10-11 10:32 pm UTC (link)
	It doesn't disprove Mad Love though, it just makes it seem sad as it was unnecessary. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	retro_nouveau 2009-10-11 11:19 pm UTC (link)
	The way I see it, she needed an end-around run because Attention Deficit Disorder prevents her from sitting in a chair long enough to finish a test, let alone get through a doctoral dissertation. She knows the stuff (at very least the stuff useful for the pop psychology television show), she just can't prove conventionally that she does. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-10-12 10:11 am UTC (link)
	She was only a TV psychologist in "The Batman", and even then they went out of their way to show that she was not professional, with a dubious online degree and no actual experience. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

retro_nouveau
2009-10-12 02:59 pm UTC (link)

In Mad Love, I thought she jumped at the chance to work with the Joker in order to get source material for her first best-seller. Although I might be projecting as a defense mechanism due to a positively-reinforced conditioned response. Scatterbrained, ditzy, lazy, and very loony. But clever, witty, intelligent, and smarter than she looks. La la la! :)

Ugh, unable to sit through "The Batman" after the first one.

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icon_uk
2009-10-12 03:24 pm UTC (link)

In "Mad Love" she was a qualified psychiatrist who did indeed plan on using a book about her treatment of the Joker to boost her career.

In "The Batman" she was a TV "therapist" who, even the Joker thought was an example of "Pop psychology at its worst! That girl's theories are unfounded, her professional manner's a joke and her training, if any, is shoddy at best. I love this show! The girl is more screwloose than me!"

You should give "The Batman" another go, after they introduced Robin at the start of Season 4 (in a story with Kevin Conroy as John Grayson and Mark Hamill as Zucco) it really perked up as a series.

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	yaseen101 2009-10-13 12:40 am UTC (link)
	I second icon-uk's recommendation, you must check out The Batman. It's no JLU but it's descent. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	faythalie 2009-10-11 10:25 pm UTC (link)
	Bu...but, I believe you Harley! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	retro_nouveau 2009-10-11 11:21 pm UTC (link)
	Whoa! Icon <3!!1! One of the best icons I've ever seen. Of course, I might be a little bit biased whenever the cartwheeling clown is concerned. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	goodfellow_puck 2009-10-11 10:33 pm UTC (link)
	Adorable. Can we just make Bruce Timm's Bat-world the real Bats canon, please? Thanks. ;) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	unknownscribler 2009-10-12 12:24 pm UTC (link)
	With one or two noteable exceptions (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	janegray 2009-10-12 02:26 pm UTC (link)
	Like Return of the Joker. Awesome movie, but damn am I glad it's not DCU canon. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	kamino_neko 2009-10-11 10:41 pm UTC (link)
	Yes, Harls, we know, you're not dumb. Just didn't know you're quite so widely read as that. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	retro_nouveau 2009-10-11 11:24 pm UTC (link)
	Hee hee, I love this icon also. Such a pain cleaning up after Harley lost her lunch, but worth it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kamino_neko 2009-10-11 11:29 pm UTC (link)
	No kidding. (To make it worse, I had to do it TWICE, as I forgot to save the first version. facepalm) But with the puke gone, it's so cute. (Even more cute WITH the puke in context, but still...puke is ick.) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	retro_nouveau 2009-10-11 11:39 pm UTC (link)
	To make it worse, I had to do it TWICE, as I forgot to save the first version. Ooo, I hate when that happens! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	janegray 2009-10-12 02:30 pm UTC (link)
	I know context is for the weak, but I'm terribly curious, what happened in your icon? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

kamino_neko
2009-10-12 03:46 pm UTC (link)

Pretty much what it looks like, actually...

It's from the 2004 Harley and Ivy mini by Dini and Timm (also whence this post's icon). Issue 2. Harley and Ivy have gone to the rain forest to pick up a rare plant called the Zombie Root. Ivy, obviously, loves it there. Harls...not so much. It's raining, and there are huge bugs - and she's just squashed one on her cheek, getting great amounts of bug goo on her, which made her lose her lunch.

After fetching the Zombie Root and...eh...communing with nature...Ivy goes back to join Harley, and notices that she's absolutely miserable. Cue a kiss on the cheek (despite the puke and bug guts), 'cheer up baby', and a promise to be back in Gotham soon, so Harley can stop being wet and miserable.

The series is REALLY worth reading, BTW. (Checking Amazon, it's collected into a volume which also includes Judd Winick and Joe Chiodo's Love on the Lam, which is also a fun read.)

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	janegray 2009-10-12 06:58 pm UTC (link)
	Thanks for the info :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	mullon 2009-10-11 11:18 pm UTC (link)
	At this point they probably just give jobs to anyone who shows up and says they want to work there. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	danielolsen 2009-10-11 11:27 pm UTC (link)
	Wich must be how all the Doctor Glenn Ocydes or Murderstien PHD's of superhero universes get work. If your workplace get flatenned by giant death robots every week or suffer massive supervillian breakouts every second month you might as well just run with it. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	tacobob 2009-10-11 11:35 pm UTC (link)
	I wonder who has the longer life-span, a generic Gotham cop or an Generic Arkham Asylum employee? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kamino_neko 2009-10-11 11:39 pm UTC (link)
	The cop...people seem to care when they die, and they're less likely to deal with the real dangerous villains, because Batman handles them. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tacobob 2009-10-11 11:57 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, but usually a dozen or so cops die before Batman pops over. You need to show how "EVIL" the baddies are. Either you have a dozen or so cops killed, or just kill off a few super-characters who haven't been used in a month or so. More so, if they're characters the previous writer created before your run. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	kamino_neko 2009-10-11 11:37 pm UTC (link)
	Honestly, at this point, I have to assume they're looking through the patient files and hiring the most tractable ones. I'm imagining the check in process... 'Doctor, this patient has a death wish.' 'Wonderful...we need more guards in the west wing, after the Joker's 'birthday bash'.' (Reply to this) (Parent)

	bluejaybirdie 2009-10-12 12:04 am UTC (link)
	The reactions in this are gold. But you left out the best part! You know, the bit after this where Selina has to use her mouth to get stuff out of Bab's utility belt! :D (Reply to this) (Thread)

	kamino_neko 2009-10-12 12:27 am UTC (link)
	eyes icon Babs: 'Threeway?' (Reply to this) (Parent)

	nonners 2009-10-18 02:58 am UTC (link)
	Heck yes Gotham Girls. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	scottyquick 2009-10-12 12:45 am UTC (link)
	D'awww, Harley <3 ! (Reply to this)

	punishermax 2009-10-12 01:16 am UTC (link)
	Harley's looks like she's tapdancing on the car in Panel one there. HATA CHA CHA CHA CHA (Reply to this)

	dustbunny105 2009-10-12 02:16 am UTC (link)
	Haha, the reactions are brilliant. Poor, not-dumb Harley. (Reply to this)

	jarodrussell 2009-10-12 02:18 am UTC (link)
	Which issue is this? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ex_spinelli800 2009-10-12 07:34 am UTC (link)
	Gotham Girls #3! I just read it a few weeks ago! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jarodrussell 2009-10-12 02:28 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you. :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	lieut_kettch 2009-10-12 03:34 am UTC (link)
	Harley's a PSYCHIATRIST, dammit! Psychiatrist= M.D. Psychologist= Ph.D. (or in some places, an M.S.) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	stratosfyr 2009-10-16 03:02 pm UTC (link)
	You sure about that? I mean a lot of people make that mistake, but I always thought she was a psychologist. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	tsunamiwombat 2009-10-12 05:52 am UTC (link)
	She is technically, 'smart'. I think her voice makes her hard to take seriously. (Reply to this)

	psychop_rex 2009-10-12 09:00 am UTC (link)
	Considering that she's frequently beaten the Joker at his own game, I don't think anyone could accuse her of being stupid. She's just a little bubble-headed. (Reply to this)

	jedd_the_jedi 2009-10-13 01:48 am UTC (link)
	I love when both Catwoman and Babs go "eeeyew!" (Reply to this)