![]() So Harleen is a painfully long - 200+ pages - retelling of Harley Quinn’s silly origin that adds almost nothing to what’s already known while managing to say the same stuff again in a far more laborious fashion. Because, when you look into that off-the-cuff origin even a lil closely? Yeah, it looks as flimsy as it always was. ![]() Given how it all just kinda happened, it’s a fine origin so long as you don’t think too hard about it or go into too much detail.Īnd then Stjepan Sejic did just that. But then people wanted to know more and so Dini came up with the best origin story he could - her original name was improbably Harleen Quinzel and she was a psychiatrist who fell for the Joker’s charms while working at Arkham Asylum. ![]() And then the fans began asking questions like “Is she the Joker’s girlfriend?” so Dini came up with a cutesy name - she was Harley Quinn, like a harlequin - and yes, she was the Joker’s girlfriend. ![]() Back in the early ‘90s in Batman: The Animated Series, Paul Dini and Bruce Timm introduced a female goon as part of Joker’s entourage who had no name. ![]() Harley was an accident - a happy accident, it turned out, but an accident nonetheless. ![]()
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