Early Ivy design for Harley Quinn:
Also, an Ivy emoji?
There's a special presentation of the show at 11 PM this Sunday on TBS.
Early Ivy design for Harley Quinn:
Also, an Ivy emoji?
There's a special presentation of the show at 11 PM this Sunday on TBS.
There's more Ivy in the second episode of Harley Quinn than Harley herself. This series is on FIRE so far.
The newest X-Men villains Hordeculture introduced in X-Men #3 are stealing Ivy's whole shtick. Even the "Cycle of Life and Death" phrase (or a variation of it) was used. They aren't as blatantly similar as Black Cat is to Catwoman (Hordeculture is a whole team... of bickering old ladies), but the background, motivations and some of their MO seem very Ivy inspired.
An alternative explanation for Ivy's empathy with plants: she can her them scream:
Microphones placed 10 centimetres from the plants picked up sounds in the ultrasonic range of 20 to 100 kilohertz, which the team says insects and some mammals would be capable of hearing and responding to from as far as 5 metres away. A moth may decide against laying eggs on a plant that sounds water-stressed, the researchers suggest. Plants could even hear that other plants are short of water and react accordingly, they speculate.
«Speaking generally, it is because of the desire of the tragic poets for the marvellous that so varied and inconsistent an account of Medea has been given out» (Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History [4.56.1])
The Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy mini has been killing it in sales. The first two issues were only beaten by Batman and JL when it came to DC titles, and the third is still on par with the third highest selling DC title, Superman.
That's stellar for a non-event/non-Batman starring mini. Though I guess the variants do help.
On the other hand, the man is busy with his own projects and I think he wants to do his Harley Quinn nine-parter first before tackling his solo Ivy story. So we are talking, what, at least two years before any chance of an Ivy solo from him.
There are other great writers who should be ready and willing to take on an Ivy mini or ongoing. Gail Simone and Amy Chu come to mind. Or perhaps get something out in the Ink line; Rootless would be a nifty title, right?
«Speaking generally, it is because of the desire of the tragic poets for the marvellous that so varied and inconsistent an account of Medea has been given out» (Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History [4.56.1])