Review #30: "Mad Love"

[lovedatjoker]

Writer: Paul Dini
Artist: Bruce Timm

Mad Love, Mad Love, Mad Love. How do I begin to review Mad Love?

Since “Mad Love and Other Stories” was released this month and the “Mad Love Collector's Set” action figures have been announced for release next year (repaints of old sculpts and not the 'new sculpts' the advertising is claiming incidentally)

Comments

[itllcometome]

This review deserves its own review. You have a way real talent for turning over every stone and leaving little room for addition. I appreciate your personal notes acting as an emotional conduit for the story.

But to pull out the some of the really shiny imagery without rehashing stuff I've rambled on about before--

Having this story told through the perspective of the woman who loves the Joker is also a really beautiful way to make it a Joker & Batman story. And really, you could only tell this sort of story through Harley's eyes - because so much of Joker's existence revolves around Batman. Telling it through Selina's or Talia's just wouldn't be the same, wouldn't throw into as fantastic relief this tense, Those women all personify the same hope the men could break tradition and ultimate heartbreak at the futility. The reader gets to see those conflicting desires depicted in flesh and blood people's happiness and distress. Harley does illustrate them and speaks & shows the subtext that would otherwise be heavy handed or