Do You Love Harley Quinn? Thank a TV Soap Opera for Her Existence

 "In the early 1990s, Paul Dini was making a living as a freelance screenwriter on the Kids’ WB cartoon show Batman: The Animated Series. While hashing out story elements for a new episode that would feature Batman villain The Joker and his criminal henchmen, Dini was hit with a novel notion..."

To read all about it, click here.

Craving in Vain?

When you've been craving – in vain – Japanese Kit Kats and then visit a shop that you've never been to before that has shockingly little in the way of comics, but two boxes of the Japan Airport EXCLUSIVE white chocolate Ume (plum) Sake Kit Kats sitting on the counter. Yum.

Anywho, not like you asked, but this past weekend was a good weekend, True Believers. In addition to these tasty imported goodies that I picked up at the previously mentioned but unnamed shop (Otaku Hobbies), I stopped into Amazing Fantasy, my regular shop here in the Chicago burbs, where I grabbed up two copies of Harley Quinn #59, a copy of the small press mini comic Magical Beatdown #1, and some other goodies (not pictured). 

Over at Half Priced Books, I snagged a copy of Flash #59 for $2–half of the $3.99 retail price, because...Half Priced Books! I don't even read Flash comics, but I saw this uber cool manga-inspired variant cover by artist Karl Kerschl online a couple months ago and made a mental note to snag a copy whenever I ran across one in the wild. So I did. ^_^

Harley Quinn #59 (Variant Cover Edition)

Hey Puddin'!

'Memba when I mentioned back in January that a sweet Harley Quinn fan art piece done by singapore-based artist Derrick Chew, that I'd given the top spot in the fan art listicle I published to geeks.media, was used by DC Comics for the cover of Harley Quinn #58?

Well, I'm very happy to announce that another piece he did – that I'd also used for my listicle – will be featured on the cover of Harley Quinn #59 (street date: 3/6/19)! As stated previously, I'm not going as far as to presume that my article had anything to do with its selection by DC, but I'm beyond thrilled for Chew...and I hope that it did.

Harley Quinn #58 (Variant Cover Edition)

Hey Puddin'!

Yours truly gave the fan art piece by singapore-based artist Derrick Chew (seen above and below) the top spot in a short Harley Quinn fan art listicle that I published to geeks.media sometime back (give it a peep by clicking here). So it was super effin' cool to learn just now that it's gonna be used by DC Comics as a special variant cover for Harley Quinn #58 (street date: 2/6/19). I won't go as far as to presume that my article really had anything to do with its selection by DC, but I'm tremendously happy for Chew...and I low key hope that it did.