This well-known star of comic books, animated and live-action TV shows, and feature films receives a fun, fresh treatment in this excellent graphic novel for teens. Fifteen-year-old Harleen Quinzell arrives in Gotham City, planning to stay with her grandmother while her mother is away on her cruise line job, only to learn that the woman is dead. Happily, Harley is able to stay with Mama, the manager of a drag queen show. She soon forms friendships with the performers and with Ivy, a fellow high

This is a really fun alternate origin story for Harley! I LOVE that it brought Harley more in line with the chaotic feminist incarnation that's in the air these days. (view spoiler)[And that it made the Joker a total skeezy dirtbag. (hide spoiler)]AND that Ivy is an awesome black feminist community activist?? And that Harley's found family is a group of drag queens? Ugh, who could ask for anything more?! (OK I could also for Harley and Ivy to be explicitly girlfriends in this but even without it...

I really enjoyed this. Probably the first iteration of Harley Quinn that I actually like.Great art, too. And only one puddin'.

I've never really been a fan of Harley Quinn. I get how she is appealing as a side character, good for a laugh, but the books she headlines are usually as lifeless and dull as this one.Here we have a revamped Elseworlds-style origin story that has Harleen Quinzel becoming Harley in high school when she gets involved with a community activist named Ivy and a local business owner whose drag queen venue is being crushed by evil real estate developers. And there's a weak ass version of Joker (defini...

I loved everything about this!The art, the story, the new versions of old characters and the imaginative origin story.My fav part? The comedy Mariko Tamaki pulled off so effortlessly.🖤🖤🖤Totally worth the wait to have my own copy🖤🖤🖤

First, a thank you to Edelweiss and DC Ink for providing a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.This is set up to become a fantastic origin / coming-of-age story for Harleen Quinzel. The writer captures the ‘voice’ of our tough, outspoken and sometimes rebellious protagonist brilliantly and I can already tell this will be a brilliant book you can give to any Harley fan.This first issue is told entirely by Harley as a prelude to the series, and it carries a great subversive fairy ta...

It's almost unheard of for me to give five star reviews on Goodreads, but with this and Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with MeMariko Tamaki nabbed the prize from me twice in the same year.Breaking Glass is part of the DC Ink line, with famous superheroes re imagined as modern teens in standalone tales and written by big name YA authors like Sarah Maas, Marie Lu, and Laurie Halse Anderson and this is the first one I've read where it felt like the author knew and cared about the character beforehand...

WARNING: SNARK, SOME POLITICS AND STRONG LANGUAGE AHEAD!Holy bad comic-olee! This is THE WORST DC comic I’ve ever read!What’s it about?Harley is a teen in this elseworld story and she’s meant to be temporarily moving in with her grandma. Unfortunately when she gets to the address her grandma’s dead and now she’s moving in with the most stereotypical gay character I’ve ever read. She goes to her new school, meets Ivy who’s super feminist and corporations evil and a shit-ton of other lame YA stand...

"I think people can be a lot of things. Things you don't expect."Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass is a YA Harley Quinn novel. Since Harley usually has more adult-ish storylines, I was very curious to see how this was going to play out. I was worried she was going to be cleaned up too much, but I think Mariko Tamaki did a great job adapting her for a YA audience while keeping the essence of the character intact. There are a couple familiar DC faces in the book like Ivy, Joker, and Bruce Wayne. I like...

First off, let me just say these DC Ink books are typically YA Elseworlds books and that's what we have here. This is the best one of the bunch yet. Probably because this was actually written by a comic book writer who actually knows something about the nature of the character involved and not just a YA novelist.Harley is sent to Gotham to live with her Grandmother while her mom works on a cruise ship. When she gets there, she finds out her Grandmother has passed away but the super decides to le...

Teenage Harley Quinn raised by drag queens? Yes please. My favorite Chaotic Neutral <3

"Yeah, it wasn't really my cup of milkshake." -- Harley, on page 156 (inadvertently giving my review)I think the mistake of Breaking Glass was hitching its wagon to the known quantities of Harley Quinn and Joker - they are not particularly 'kid friendly' characters to begin with (unless perhaps you are offspring of the Manson Family), though they are presented here in teenage incarnations as in the other DC Ink titles - when it could probably stand on its own as an original and energetic YA-type...

Great dialogue from Mariko Tamaki and great art from Steve Pugh in what appears to be a new Elseworlds series featuring a new origin story of Harley Quinn. Answers the question: Which superheroes might be tweaked to have particular appeal to an inclusive, queer community? Harley moves out of her house after her parents' divorce, befriends (Poison) Ivy, meets a kind of wild (but not Dark Knight-style psychotic) Joker who is mainly just bored and wants to stir things up. She's attracted to him, of...

Harleen is sent to Gotham to live with her grandmother, but her life takes a drastic turn once she gets there. The story unfolds as the teen makes decisions, starts to discover who she is, makes friends, and faces danger, unfairness and bad people. I love this new spin on a favorite character. Harley Quinn gets a bit of an update....she's facing current issues and learning as she goes. I like how she is portrayed as a strong, intelligent and driven teen, who also has some issues. She meets up wi...

I mostly dabble in comics, so I don't usually dive into a well-known, established character. I don't keep close enough track of what may be happening in a long or short term arc, who may be drawing them, what their history is, etc. But if you are like me, you can definitely pick up BREAKING GLASS and have a grand old time with Harley Quinn, no matter how much or how little you know about her. I probably wouldn't have picked this up if I hadn't had a chat with someone at DC about their titles for...

Thank you DC Ink for gifting me with a free ARC in exchange for an honest review!Harley has always been one of my favorites from the DC universe. I was looking forward to this graphic novel for so long, and I was so happy to have the chance to read and review it.The art style was amazing, and the story was fun to follow. It was nice to see a standalone of hers. Harley was fun and had her quirky qualities on display throughout the entire book which I loved. We got a glimpse of Ivy too who is bira...

Wow, this was a generally pretty rubbish graphic novel with only a few shakily good parts to it.Harleen was a dumb character. She was like a 5 year-old trapped in a 14 year-old’s body.Ivy was far more interesting. I wish she was the protagonist!A list of RIDICULOUS but real quotes from Harleen’s narrative:- “Gotham looks like... like building building building really big building building building-type thing.” What on Earth? Not quality narrative, that’s for sure.- “Mama gets to be the fairy god...

One of the best graphic novels I have read in awhile! I absolutely loved this take on a Harley Quinn backstory for a YA audience. It's funny and smart with incisive social critiques and a version of Harley that I would love to see return. In Breaking Glass, Harleen is a teen girl shipped off to Gotham City to live with her grandmother. Unfortunately, it turns out that her grandmother has passed away, and so a group of drag queens take her under their wing. (The idea that her wild costumes come f...

This was okay. One of those books I think I would have enjoyed a lot more if I was about 10 or so years younger? It read like a YA novel. Many Harley Quinn stories don’t really work for me. In fact, the only one I remember enjoying a lot was Preludes and Knock Knock Jokes - no story aside from that one have really made me love reading about this character. This dialogue reads like it was made for a much younger audience and that’s just fine. The story is the plot of many “feel good” stories. The...

Part of the soon-to-be-defunct DC Ink imprint, this contemporary graphic novel tells the story of 15-year-old Harleen Quinzel, a recent Gotham arrival who is taken in by a drag club owner named Mama and her squadron of queens, befriends a plant-loving political activist named Ivy, and is beguiled by a mysterious anarchist calling himself the Joker. When gentrification comes to Harleen's neighborhood and threatens her loved one's livelihoods, it's up to this lovable, quirky teen to save the commu...