Harley Quinn, Vol. 2: Harley Destroys the Universe

Well, that was just silly.

It's hard for a new writer to follow on from a successful run by a predecessor, and Humphries seems to have taken a while to find his feet. But he finally starts to do so here in a collection that improves as it goes along. To begin with, we have a story that overdoes the fourth-wall-breaking, with Harley supposedly endangering DC comics continuity. It's more weird than anything else, an excuse to throw different art styles and Elseworlds-style jokes into the mix, and the story that follows it, with a deeply obscure Golden Age superhero becoming stuck in the present, is only a slight improvement.

After that, Humphries finally starts to get into the swing of things with some suitably cooky villains and larger-than-life threats, counterbalancing some of the humour with a more serious side. He's overly reliant on puns and doesn't quite have the wackiness of the previous run, but these latter two stories are much more the sort of thing I expect from - and look for in - this comic.