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This hilarious story comes courtesy of Tim Seeley & Juan Ferreyra & Steve Wands. Tim's idea for a Gotham underground rap battle scene was too good to ignore. Juan was one of the first artists I thought of when we were discussing this Black & White & Red concept. You can see why.
HARLEY QUINN: BLACK & WHITE & RED #4: When a mythical recording of the Joker’s disastrous rapping turns up as the grand prize in Gotham City’s most elite rap battle, Harley Quinn enters the contest to win this most excellent way to humiliate her awful ex. https://t.co/ADqloR8ZyC
Courts in the past have given “broad deference”. BUT NOT ME! https://t.co/iM1s8AWG9c
In particular,I believe that Doc Shaner and Nick Pitarra, in collaboration with Tamra Bonvillain on color and Simon Bowland on letters, have done the best single issues of their careers on this series. It's STUNNING.
I am my own aesthetic. Plus Oeming’s Highlander cover. Feels accurate. https://t.co/MpxMutZwJt
Some great covers from this collection. Seems increasingly likely that story was in the Man Of Steel soup, but maybe they left out a crucial ingredient.
Here are the first two and last two pages of this issue. Now while the characterizations are a bit dated, the drama is not. This is pure Lois and Clark drama, they just keeep missing each other. I love it.
Wonder if this Byrne story about Superman’s out-of-control powers was an inspiration for the MOS film climax. We see the villain putting Superman in a choke hold so as to aim his heat vision, flying into buildings, destruction. Except here Superman isn’t doing it on purpose.
But even in Byrne’s work, Superman remains the vehicle for this unmistakably political message about the scourge of inequality in America. That’s what he was created to be, from his earliest stories.