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DC continue to expose more ofHarley Quinn ’s ( alternate ) hereafter in this week ’s final result ofOld Lady Harley , as a thunderbolt is drop : the newest villain in town isn’tthe Joker , it ’s the grown - up boy of the Joker and Harley Quinn .
The series , an court to Marvel’sOld Man Logan , takes position in a post - apocalyptic future , where Harley is an sure-enough adult female ( still sway her skimpy black and red outfits ) , latterly returned from years in self - impose exile after a newfangled baddie call themselves the Joker has appeared .
So far , the serial has combined the ' present day ' , as Harley pilot the destroyed DC Universe as she tries to discover who this novel Joker could be , and flashback of what happened to drive her aside . She believed that the Joker was dead , and was terrified that he was somehow back , but this week , Harley learns the verity : it ’s not ' her ' Joker that is terrorize citizenry . It ’s her Word .
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InOld Lady Harley # 5 , Harley ( and a whole hatful of renowned DC characters ) at last come face to expression with the newfangled Joker , who reveals the truth . When Harley and the Joker hooked up again all those class ago , it was just long enough for her to become pregnant . However , she gave up the baby and pass on Ithiel Town - and after being fall out around from orphanage to orphanage , that Word became twisted and furious , vowing revenge on the mother who never hump him , try on to make himself as much like his excellently nefarious Church Father as possible .
However , the issue follow with a turn . Harley , who has always had a sonant heart , begs him for pardon … and her boy accept . It ’s a angelic , if deeply worrying moment where the novel Joker finally gets the dearest he has always thirst , and calls off his minions for finally bond with his mom . Awwwww .
precious as this is , it leaves some pretty great questions - specially whether or not Harley ’s shaver is really going to give up his life of law-breaking for a family life in Harley ’s paradise home ( create by non other than Poison Ivy ) , or whether this is all some gaming as part of a bigger plan . The serial publication was originally conceive as a five - issue miniseries , which would make this big reveal the finale … but the final Sir Frederick Handley Page show the mentality of the real Joker in a automaton consistence in space ( because no one ever dies in comics ) , with the promise of a subsequence to come …
Does this really mean that Old Lady Harley has a bright future with the son she abandoned ? Will the original recipe Joker be repay for a sequel , and will his son manage to live both his parent ? And of course - will this ever pass off in the mainstream DC Universe ? It ’s unbelievable , because Harley and the Joker have been apart for quite some sentence now , butOld Lady Harleyshowed her becoming fraught from a moment of weakness … and she has for sure had her weak moments in her own deed . The Joker may become a mainstream bequest title after all .
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Old Lady Harley # 5is available now fromDC Comics .
