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    DC Comics novels - Harley Quinn: Mad Love

    By Paul Dini and Pat Cadigan

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    The definitive story of Harley Quinn by her co-creator, Paul Dini, and Pat Cadigan, revealing the secrets of her history even as she seeks to kill Batman.
    When she was only seven years old, Harleen Quinzel witnessed her father being beaten up by thugs, and then arrested by the police. That night she ran away to the safest place she could think of: Coney Island amusement park. But there, pursued into the Funhouse by the men who brutalised her father, she beheld unimaginable horrors.
    Years later, Harleen has put her past behind her, and used her intelligence and ambition to escape her childhood of poverty with a career in psychiatry. Assigned to her first position at Arkham Hospital, she will discover, deep in the asylum, something dangerous and alluring, something quite unlike anything else she has ever known before: The Joker. Because why would you settle for love, when you could have MAD LOVE?
    From the moment that Harleen finds a rose on her desk, to the moment she dons her harlequin hat, this is the definitive story that chronicles the obsession, the burning desire, the manic laughter, and the birth of one of the most controversial and popular comic book supervillains ever created: Harley Quinn.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTitan Books
    Release dateNov 13, 2018
    ISBN9781785658143
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    DC Comics novels - Harley Quinn: Mad Love
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    Paul Dini

    Paul Dini is best known as a producer and writer for series including Batman: The Animated Series, The New Batman/Superman Adventures, and Batman Beyond. He contributed scripts to Transformers and Animaniacs, and wrote and story edited for the adventure series Lost. He’s written for DC Comics titles including Harley Quinn and the graphic novel Dark Night: A True Batman Story. He’s won five Emmys, the Eisner, Harvey, and Annie awards.

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    • 3/5
      Disappointing read for me. I was hoping to get a great psychological novel when I saw that Pat Cadigan was one of the authors. I haven't read the comic this novel is based on but it reads like a blow-by-blow retelling. Good for a lazy read but suspect only Batman fans will really get anything out of this novel.
    • 5/5
      Paul Dini and Pat Cadigan’s Mad Love: A Batman Novel retells Harley Quinn’s origin. Dini and Cadigan begin with Quinn as a child, seeing her happy world shatter when police arrest her father after a wonderful day on Coney Island, thereby giving Quinn an early distrust of authority. They follow her through her gymnastics training and college, before showing how Quinn was a rising star at Arkham Asylum until she grew fixated on the Joker. The story follows Dini’s original one fairly closely from there, but expands on it so that Quinn’s time at Arkham and her growing dependency on the Joker develop gradually. Dini and Cadigan also demonstrate how Quinn’s early distrust of authority led her to distrust Batman, viewing him as someone who harms the sick patients that end in Arkham. Here, too, they break from many portrayals of mental illness in Batman by avoiding the common tendency to equate mental illness with violence in the Batman mythos. The story also has a different ending than the original, with Harley undergoing treatment at Arkham after her arrest in order to accept that any relationship with the Joker is abusive and to develop strategies to overcome her dependency.The story itself has appeared several times. Mad Love first appeared as a one-shot comic from Paul Dini and Bruce Timm in December 1993, tying into Batman: The Animated Series and exploring Harley Quinn’s backstory. Dini later adapted the comic into a teleplay for Butch Lukic’s January 16, 1999 episode of The New Batman Adventures, also titled “Mad Love.” In October 1999, Dini again adapted parts of his “Mad Love” story with Yvel Guichet for the Batman: Harley Quinn one-shot comic that introduced Harley Quinn into the mainstream Batman comics continuity. Since then, elements of the story have appeared in Karl Kesel, Terry Dodson, and Rachel Dodson’s Harley Quinn comic series that ran from December 2000 – January 2004, Dini and Guillem March’s Gotham City Sirens series that was published between August 2009 – October 2011, and in Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti’s Harley Quinn series that began in January 2014 and have been part of the New 52 and DC Rebirth. Finally, Dini’s story also played out in the 2016 Academy Award-winning Suicide Squad film. In September 2019, Stjepan Šejić began his own take on Harley’s origin in Harleen for DC Black Label.Dini and Cadigan’s latest retelling includes all the story beats fans expect, but also offers the greater character development and sense of pacing of a prose novel. They update the story for 2019, with modern technology and a better understanding of domestic violence and mental illness. Fans of Harley Quinn looking for a serious, yet familiar, take on the character are sure to enjoy Mad Love: A Batman Novel.