First Look: ‘Harley Quinn’ #71 Debuts New Creative Team

DC’s Harley Quinn is getting a new creative team, debuting in February’s Harley Quinn #71. Writer Joanne Starer (Dinner Date) and artist Lukas Ketner (Batman – Santa Claus: Silent Knight Returns) take on the irreverent Maid of Mirth, moving her from Brooklyn to France “in a new story that finds her living with two terrible roommates, traveling abroad with a forged Justice League ID, assembling an unlikely crew of super-powered individuals, and attempting the most Harley Quinn-esque caper imaginable: stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre. And as if that isn’t enough trouble, an international cadre of assassins is after Harley’s head.”

“Before Harley can take Paris, however, Harley Quinn #71 has some unfinished business closer to home, including haunting childhood memories, an adult bat mitzvah, and one very important question: If you invite Batman to a bat mitzvah, does he have to show up?”

Look out for the return of longtime Harley ally Sy Borgman and suopervillian the Eraser, who wants to erse Harley because she stole from him.

Here’s Starer’s take on Harley:

“At her core, Harley is basically a little kid who desperately wants love, attention, and approval. Sometimes she acts out, because even negative attention is attention. But deep down, she just wants someone to be proud of her.

In Paris, she’s not a sidekick. She’s not a girlfriend. She’s out to make a name for herself as an individual so the world will take her seriously. It’s a new city, a new adventure, and a new storyline.”

On working with Ketner, she added:

“Lukas isn’t just a phenomenal artist. Every page he turns in has extra jokes and surprises. And wait till you see his action scenes! Nothing I write is ever too absurd for him. He matches my level of weird, and then takes it up a notch.”

Harley Quinn #71 is out on 24th February from DC Comics with a main cover by David Nakayama, and variant covers by Yona, Nimit Malavia, and Khary Randolph. And look out for a new-look Harley, as designed by Nakayama, on issue #72. Hey, you can’t move to the fashion capital of the world nd not get new thread, right?