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Let J. Caleb Mozzocco Write Harley Quinn. Lots Of Times.

Published Mon, 01 Dec 2014 11:30:41 -0600

Writer J. Caleb Mozzocco noted how many variant covers for Harley Quinn were being solicited in January, and how nice they all were. And decided, Julie Schwartz-style, to write new solicitations around the possible stories that these variant covers could be telling.

Such as

ACTION COMICS #39
Written by GREG PAK and J. CALEB MOZZOCCO
Art and cover by NICOLA SCOTT and DANNY MIKI
On sale FEBRUARY 4 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T
After a long night of drinking at villains bar The Dark Side, Terra-Man has taken all the ridicule he can stand from Harley Quinn. Where does she get off making fun of him? He spends his time trying to take down the most powerful superhero in the universe, whereas Harley and her stupid boyfriend can't even kill a single normal human being who dresses like a bat. They decide to settle things with a bet: If Harley can ride Superman for eight seconds without being thrown, she can have Terra-Man's flying robot horse. And if Superman throws her? Then she's gotta trade in her clown get-up for a country and western costume. Can Harley break the Man of Steel? Not if she plays fair, but since when did Harl ever play fair?

Or maybe,

DETECTIVE COMICS #39
Written by FRANCIS MANAPUL, BRIAN BUCCELLATO and J. CALEB MOZZOCCO
Art and cover by DAVE JOHNSON
On sale FEBRUARY 4 • 32 pg, FC, $3.99 US • RATED T
So there Harley Quinn was, sitting in The Joker's study in the Ha-Ha-Hacienda one night, bleeding out, slipping into unconsciousness. What can she do to make the decent people of Gotham City afraid of her, she thought. And then it happened. A baseball bat smashed through the window, knocked over the bust of The Joker and hit her on the head. "A bat!" she thought, "That's it! It's an omen…I shall become a girl that hits people in the head with a baseball bat!" She knew that the people of Gotham City were a superstitious and cowardly lot, and they feared being hit in the head with baseball bats. Before Harley ever picked up a comically large wooden hammer, before Barbara Gordon ever donned a cape, Harley Quinn was the original Batgirl of Gotham City! Join us for this very special look back at her earliest encounters with Batman in a little story we like to call "Harley Quinn: Year Pun."

Or even,

WONDER WOMAN #39
Written by MEREDITH FINCH and J. CALEB MOZZOCCO
Art and cover by PHIL JIMENEZ
On sale FEBRUARY 18 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T
Bad news? Wonder Woman has been defeated by one of her Amazon sisters, and is no longer their chosen ambassador to Man's World. Worse news? It was Harley Quinn who has defeated her and taken her place. What would the DC Universe be like today if Harley had taken Wondy's place five years ago? It would be a lot like the contents of this comic, which no Wonder Woman fan will want to miss. Well, except Wonder Woman herself. She's not going to like it one bit. Especially not page 3. Or 5. Or 17. Oh, is she going to hate page 17!

They keep on coming!

I was told by DC senior folk earlier in the year that the success of Harley Quinn had led them to investigate the possibility of making Harley Quinn a weekly title, or launch another title to complement Harley Quinn and Suicide Squad but were persuaded against it by the Quinn creative team, fearful of killing the golden goose through overexposure, as we saw Marvel once do with Punisher, Ghost Rider and more. The popping up of Specials and Annuals is as sop to the desire for more Harley without having too much Harley.

But damn it, if J. Caleb Mozzocco hasn't made a great case for a second Harley book. Written by him. After all, the covers are already done!

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