Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus

And it all depends on mood, but I'm not in the mood for this right now.   Daniel Way's run of Deadpool is fantastic: hilarious, foul, and wrong in all the ways that made me love Deadpool in the first place. 

It also felt like treading water at some points.   Sure, non-stop jokes are fun, but what I ended up truly loving about Duggan's Deadpool is the balance of jokes for the hell of it, social commentary and heart.   It's what makes him sustainable as a character crush for me.   And while Deadpool sticks to mocking Marvel and other, non-comic franchises for the most part, Harley Quinn gleefully mocks both DC and Marvel.   The skewering of comic book stories, the almost-ares (Manos instead of Thanos) poking their fingers in potholes and character inconsistencies, are funny.   

But it's still treading water.   Deadpool is more fearless when it comes to real world issues, and one of my favorites panels from that comics is still the one that showed its support for the transgender community.   Or it makes me care about real world issues.   It also delves a little more deeply into Deadpool's social life: his family, his teammates, his employees.   Without those tethers in Way's run, I laughed until I couldn't stop - until I started wanting a point in my fiction. 

I think I've come to that point with Harley Quinn, and I'd come to that point last issue in fact.   I let it sit and I'm still having that issue.  

Which means that I may put this aside for a while.  I have three or four issues left in my Comixology account - and I will get to them eventually - it may just be spread out like issues eleven and twelve have.   There's something missing, something of that energy and hilarity that the first volume and issues provided - and that this doesn't.   

That being said, I did laugh out loud a couple times, and I spent the pages in between searching for some larger meaning to this issue.   I couldn't find it, but that didn't mean this wasn't fun, or even a worthwhile read.    It just means this has gone the way of Way's fun of Deadpool: treading water.  

I fear that Quinn, however, is not going to find it's balance between a point and that balls out humor so I doubt I'll invest more in her series in the future, even if it's on sale again.