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A new costume worn byHarley Quinnis a gift to the legion of enthusiastic cosplayers who love to portray the character , both for its alone and spectacular excogitation , and for the meaning it has to Harley ’s fan - favoriterelationship with Poison Ivy .
Recently , after a traumatic brush with Gotham ’s Magistrate organization , Poison Ivy assume two separate word form . While they eventually conflate back into one somebody , the mental process ultimately cut Ivy off from the Green - DC ’s elemental reflexion of all works liveliness , and the source of her plant - based power . While this was essential to deliver Ivy ’s life , it has provide her grieving , and she has since embarked on a new mission to fetch about the Sixth Mass Extinction , purging human life from the major planet so that works can reign supreme . However , Poison Ivy does still have some connectionsto the human world - chief among them her former pardner Harley Quinn .
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InPoison Ivy # 3- from G. Willow Wilson , Marcio Takara , Arif Prianto , and Hassan Otsmane - Elhaou - Ivy dream a conversation with Harley in which the Gotham hero tell her she does n’t have to move onwards with her genocidal plans . In Poison Ivy ’s subconscious , Harley gets a jaw - overlook new costume , sport a Venetian - style off the shoulder garb , harlequin punk , ruffle trim mitt , and a golden ' slapstick ' orbatte . The outfit is themed on Harley ’s usual jazz band of red and inglorious with blue details , and incorporate her playing - wit spirit iconography even more centrally thanother costumes through her history(understandable , given the rig is a conjuring of Poison Ivy ’s love for Harley Quinn . )
The costume is stylish , iconic , and practical to make in real life , making it a major win for cosplayers looking for new ways to depict Harley , however the context surrounding it makes it even more fascinating . Thisisn’t the veridical Harley Quinn , but rather an idealized adaptation imagine by the soul who have it away her most in the macrocosm . Poison Ivy imagines Harley without any of the esthetic hangovers from her clip as Joker ’s sidekick , truly embracing the harlequin report by drawing on component of commedia dell’arte , where ' Harlequin ' is a famous and darling stock character imagined in many different ways .
However , at the same time this is a version of Harley altogether defined by someone else ’s need and expectations . While Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn may be an iconic couple , they ’re both vocation criminals who are prosperous taking lifespan when it serves them . InPoison Ivy # 3 , Ivy dream a variant of Harley who is calling her back to her human life , but it ’s a translation she ’s in the end able to refuse . It ’s worth take note that whilePoison Ivy may lie with Harley , her plans will still tear the human Earth asunder just as her former mate is undertake to attempt salvation as a hero . Ivy may do it Harley , but at least so far , that love is n’t enough to deter her from an enactment of planetary execution that will smash her life .
Harley Quinn ’s raw costume is a striking look that take a fresh overture to her superhero base and its aesthetic potential . It ’s a symbol of how much Poison Ivy loves and idealizes her , but also of the limits of that love and the terms of two people who genuinely ca n’t stand to live in the world as it is , but have dedicated themselves to mutually single forms of change . Poison Ivyhas a hatful to unpackas the series bear on , but the beauty and cataclysm captured inHarley Quinn ’s unexampled feel freights it with signification , all but guaranteeing the hero ’s many cosplayers will be irresistibly enliven .
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Poison Ivy # 3is available now from DC Comics .
