It was pretty obvious from the jump who was behind the mask. The big reveal was not much of a shocker. She rises to the challenge by giving her a family of drag queens who love her for who she is. People know and love Harley so to give her a new origin must have been hard. Her DC Ink colleagues have not had to take on such a monumental task. If you didn’t already have a soft spot in your heart for Harley before this, you will now.

Because Harley is an anti-hero, having a writer who captures that outsider status is a genius move. I don’t think anyone but Mariko Tamaki could have written Breaking Glass. I am a huge fan of her work both in the Super Hero world and out of it. Breaking Glass hands him one of DC’s most popular characters and lets him reinvent her in a way that is beautiful and perfect while paying homage to the character that Paul Dini invented. I can not imagine a day wehre anyone would write that. I would be hard pressed to say there is something that Steve Pugh did that was bad.

Ivy and her family are going about it everything the right way, Harleen meets up with a person calling himself The Joker who is going about things the wrong way. Harleen heads to school where she meets a young Ivy, an activist who is trying to fight the gentrification of the neighbor hood by the Kane family.

Because he is pretty amazing, he takes her in. It turns out that Granny Quinzel has past and that a drag queen called Mama lives in her apartment. Her mother is working hard to make ends meet so she she sends Harleen, who has a history of mental instability and violence to the most violent city in the DC universe to live with her grandmother. Breaking Glass is a YA re-imagining of a young Harleen’s first trip to Gotham City.

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