Vector art depicting the various iconic versions of Poison Ivy by Twitter's @MilitechMatty
Queen Ivy storyline (and possible spin-off book)
Poison Ivy: Thorns YA graphic novel
Harley Quinn Season 3 focused on Ivy
Future State Poison Ivy in Gotham City Sirens
Still holding out for DCEU confirmation/casting for Ivy
One of the other appearances or hoping for something unannounced
Vector art depicting the various iconic versions of Poison Ivy by Twitter's @MilitechMatty
1st page of an 8-page story with Poison Ivy in Batman Black & White #4 (May 2021):
No one:
Gail Simone at the end of the weekend:
Ivy's twitter fans should listen to this
So why post it here?
I checked the transcript, and I think the analysis in the video misses the mark pretty thoroughly why a lot of people like Poison Ivy as a character. Many of those fans are highly critical not only of DC for not using Poison Ivy enough, but also of how DC uses Poison Ivy. It also accepts all the poor takes on Poison Ivy, takes them as given, and uses those to attack the character.
The video also misses another important factor, and that is for people who are exploited or suppressed, the person striking back is often viewed as a hero, even if that person is not nice or good. One can call this the Thelma & Louise dynamic, though it is far older than that—John Brown is a famous real-world example; Spartacus another. Both Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy fit that pattern very well—they are free from the shackles that society placed on them, and liberated themselves from abusive relationships of their own power.
I am myself one of those who think Gail Simone is a good but not great writer. But she does have some real strengths, and I'd argue that DC is severely lacking in two things that Simone is really good at. The first is understanding characters, especially female ones. The second is a real knack for getting representation, and a desire to get it right.
Both are sorely needed for DC to reach new readers. If I were running DC, I'd recruit Simone not as a writer but as a high-level editor.
«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])