Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus

I mean, I'm joking, but not really.   She's crazy.   She talks to to a dead, stuffed beaver (that no one else can hear, so it's really like a voice in her head), she's freaky looking, she's hyper-violent, she cracks jokes all the time, she breaks the fourth wall in this volume, and she's bisexual.   She's very, very close to being Lady Deadpool. 

Differences?   Deadpool is scarred up, whereas she's got the goth-y skin.   No healing factor, so that ups the ante for her, and she uses a mallet instead of katana.  She's written as bisexual, whereas Deadpool is written as pansexual.

Insta-love.   I know, I know, hate it in stories, love it when it happens between me and a character.   It's also much more clear in this series that Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn are together than, say, in the show.   (I hear the story is the writers wanted to make them a couple, they were told they could not make that so, but they wrote them with that intention/not changing anything, but without actually calling them girlfriends.   That is, they still read queer in the show, but nothing too explicit.)

This would not have been allowed in the animated show.  I kinda understand.   The climate was different back when the show was being put out, it was kid-friendly, and I think the people in charge were freaking out about breaking the news about lesbians to the little kids.   I don't agree with them, but I understand.   No one else was doing it, and it seemed safer. 

It makes me respect this work all the more for being so explicit.   There are beaver jokes!   They have Harley and Ivy in bed together.   So far no actual kissing, but I think it's clear they're a couple.   Or intimate.   (The question is more one of if it's a steady relationship or get some as you can to me; either one is equally valid, I'm just not sure how it'll play out.   The two relationships are different, as well, and I'd like something a little more defined, to be honest.   I just want to know where they stand.   Seeing as Harley's still in love with Mister J, I'm guessing that she's not quite monogamous.   She still pines after him, and it drives me nuts because he treats her like crap.   Ivy respects her, and loves and cares for her, so I hope she wins out over the Joker in the battle for Harley's love.)

That being said, love, love, love.  I've got a long history with Deadpool.   Well, not long, so much as it seems long because I've packed so much reading into such a short time.  (Also, tax-free weekend, so I got the truck despite not having room for a chimichanga truck in my room.   Also, the Deadpool Classic Companion.)

So, um, yeah, point is I love Harley a smidge less than Deadpool.   But given my hardcore Deadpool love, that is impressive for one volume.   Then again, she is DC's Lady Deadpool.   Long live Wanda Wilson, AKA Harley Quinn!