Comic Heroes Magazine Issue 28 Retour à l'édition précédente

HARLEY QUINN AND THE SUICIDE SQUAD
If you were to inform Harley Quinn of just how popular she is, she’d most
likely laugh in your face, before popping her bubblegum in it. Most fans who grew up with Harley know that she started conquering contemporary pop culture with her first appearance on 1992’s Batman: The Animated Series, in the show’s first-season episode “Joker’s Favor”. At first she was merely an irreverent sidekick to the Clown Prince of Crime, garbed in greasepaint and a red-and-black harlequin costume but viewers were captivated by her from the moment she opened her mouth, out of which emerged a New York accent as tart as tabasco sauce and as nutty as a fruitcake. This year we see Harley come to the big screen in The Suicide Squad. There’s nothing in comic books quite like it. A ragtag band of super-powered prisoners recruited by cagey, feisty government operative Amanda Waller, the Squad’s popularity has, in recent years, exploded well beyond the confines of comic books into TV, animated movies, video games, and, this summer, its very first live-action feature film.