Today in Comics History: I shamelessly attempt to boost my blog hits by posting Harley and Ivy comics

Page from "The Harley and the Ivy" in The Batman Adventures Holiday Special one-shot (January 1995); co-plot by Paul Dini; co-plot, script, pencils, inks, and colors by Ronnie Del Carmen; letters by Richard Starkings

Harley and Ivy Are Best Friends, Day 5: Always the Floral Arrangement, Never the Bride

Panels from Batman Adventures v.2 #16 (September 2004), script by Ty Templeton, pencils by Rick Burchett, inks by Terry Beatty, colors by Heroic Age, letters by Nick J. Napolitano

Harley and Ivy Are Best Friends, Day 4:

Page from The Batman Strikes! #41 (March 2008), script by Russell Lissau, pencils by Christopher Jones, inks by Terry Beatty, colors by Heroic Age, letters by Randy Gentile

Harley and Ivy Are Best Friends, Day 3: It's Time for a Christmas Montage

Page from "The Harley and the Ivy" in The Batman Adventures Holiday Special one-shot (January 1995), co-plot by Paul Dini; co-plot, script, pencils, inks, and colors by Ronnie Del Carmen, letters by Richard Starkings

The single greatest panel in the history of comic books:

Harley and Ivy Are Best Friends, Day 2: Bunk Beds Are Cool

Panels from Batman Adventures v.2 #3 (August 2003), script by Dan Slott, pencils by Ty Templeton, inks by Terry Beatty, colors by Zylonol, letters by Phil Felix

Harley and Ivy Are Best Friends, Day 1: Just as we hit the green, I've never been so happy to be alive

The Mid-Day Matinee this week, all week: Harley and Ivy Are Best Friends! Take one plant-based eco-terrorist, mix well with a love-smitten screwball prankster, and you don't just have trouble for Batman...you've got BFFs! Yes, there's something special about the friendship of Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy...they're there for each other through thick or thin, through Arkham or freedom, through murderous clowns or avenging Dark Knights. James Taylor once sang "you've got a friend"...until those two wacky gals blew him up! That's because Harley and Ivy Are Best Friends!


Panels from Batman: Harley and Ivy (June 2004), script by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm, pencils by Bruce Timm, inks by Shane Glines, colors by Lee Loughridge, letters by Tom Orzechowski

Superheroes Meet Ordinary Joes, Day 2: I went to Metropolis and All I Got Was Killed by The Joker

Panels from Harley Quinn #14 (January 2002), script by Karl Kesel, pencils by Terry Dodson, inks by Rachel Dodson, colors by Alex Sinclair, letters by Ken Lopez

Friday Night Not Fights, Ladies Night: H+I 4Ever

Okay! It's Friday and you know what that means, buckaroos: Friday Night Fights! I've been trainin' my fighters all week, setting them up with reps on the speed bag, drinking raw eggs and wrasslin' Wonder Dog, and now I'm ready to let loose, Hilary Swank style! Let's ring the bell and let the fights begin!

What's that? Friday Night Fights is postponed?

Well, poop.

Huh. So, if it's not Fight Night, then I guess I have to show some ladies not fighting, right? Some women being friendly and pleasant to each other instead of trading punches, huh? Hmmm, I think I know a couple what fits the bill poifectly:

Ivy loves Harley.

All panels are from Harley and Ivy #1-3 (June-August 2004), scripted and co-plotted by Paul Dini, pencilled and co-plotted by Bruce Timm, inked by Shane Glines, colored by Lee Loughridge, lettered by Tom Orzechowski

And, Harley loves Ivy.

Yes, even when our cheerful couple of criminal cuties have a falling-out, you just know there's a reconciliation on the horizon:






Yup, that's our larcenous lassies! These gal pals never let the world get them down, and they're always gonna be the best of friends forever. And...

...and...

Sheesh, Friday Night Fights is boring when there's no fights. Um, Miss Ivy, could ya...


Poifect. Thank you, goils!

Bahlactus has declared/Never turn the other cheek/And he said with might/Get ready to fight/I'll be back again next week!

Friday Night Fights: Good Clean Fun, or "How to Increase Your Blog Hits The Harley Quinn Way"

Panels from Batman: Harley and Ivy #1 (June 2004), written by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm, art by Bruce Timm, Shane Glines and Lee Loughridge, letters by Tom Orzechowski. Golly, Miss Quinzel and Miss Isley are jus' about the best friends you ever saw, huh?

Bahlactus is manly, yes, but I like him too.

"Leaves of three, let them be. Leaves of four, eat some more."

From an article in today's Yahoo News:

Study: Global Warming Boosts Poison Ivy

WASHINGTON—Another reason to worry about global warming: more and itchier poison ivy. The noxious vine grows faster and bigger as carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere rise, researchers report Monday.

And a CO2-driven vine also produces more of its rash-causing chemical, urushiol, conclude experiments conducted in a forest at Duke University where scientists increased carbon-dioxide levels to those expected in 2050.

Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas — a chemical that traps heat similar to the way a greenhouse does — that's considered a major contributor to global warming. Greenhouse gases have been steadily increasing in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution...

"The fertilization effect of rising CO2 on poison ivy...and the shift toward a more allergenic form of urushiol have important implications for the future health of both humans and forests," the study concludes.

That's funny. All along I thought it was Harley who boosted Poison Ivy:


Still, if global warming makes Ivy stronger, you know that that means:

Ra's Al Ghul versus Poison Ivy smackdown 12-issue crossover series!