Poison Ivy 1: The Virtuous Cycle
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Winner, Outstanding Comic Book – GLAAD Media Awards 2023
Pamela Isley has been a lot of things in her life. A living god, a super-villain, an activist, a scientist, and dead. In a new body that she didn’t ask for and with a renewed sense of purpose, Ivy leaves Gotham and sets out to complete her greatest work—a gift to the world that will heal the damage dealt to it…by ending humanity.
On her journey to doom humankind, a heartbroken and betrayed Poison Ivy encounters obstacles (plant assassins!) and dodges the law along the way, in a body horror-infused character-defining epic from the visionary creative team of writer G. Willow Wilson and artist Marcio Takara.
This volume collects Poison Ivy #1-6.
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Additional information
| Publisher | 1st edition (23 May 2023), DC Comics |
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| Language | English |
| Hardcover | 160 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1779518498 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1779518491 |
| Dimensions | 17.6 x 1.5 x 27 cm |
by Lilium
-Non Spoiler Review-
This is a collection of issue 1-6 of Poison Ivy along side a prologue from Batman issue #124 which sets up the first issue nicely.
This is set after Pamela has been removed from Queen Ivy to save her and the volume shows Pamela learning to understanding that Harley only wanted to save her, and didn’t have any malicious intent which is what Pamela thought at the start, through-out the whole adventure Pamela goes on you will see parts of a letter she is writing to Harley which I think is a really nice way of doing it than just info bombing the viewer it tells you bit by bit and we end up with Harley reading it near the end.
The writing is really well done for this volume and will definitely be reading this, the art is good, Ivy’s hallucinogenic form I quite like and find it to be a nice new spin on Ivy’s powers, but I must say it does especially on older people look very odd, for example the person Pamela gardens with her face and whole design just seems very lazy to me, thankfully the old woman is barely in the book.
All in all i would recommend this book its got good story and good art plus its the first Poison Ivy ongoing series ever so if you want to support any comic support this one, so that we can have it ongoing for as long as possible.