Catching up on Geektress. The last one ended with you folks asking what you'd do without Rania. This one opens with you asking if she's even still here. I laughed thoroughly.

Laura sold me on this new Alternate X-Men story. Wasn't into it before, felt all too familiar (including Xavier's goddamn son being responsible for a goddamn alternate world), but that's some neat stuff about the basement. Brenda would have sold me on Birds of Prey if I hadn't been reading it.

Honestly did not like Calloway's Harley at all. She's just a generic, cold assassin for all of issue 20. When she's talking about being driven by rage? It's such cliche nonsense. Very disappointing to me, since the Harley character can be so different than typical people and typical superpeople. If her default actually is to happiness rather than the default to sternness of almost every other fictional character, that's quite novel. Calloway's opening in 20, saying it's all cover for rage? Ugh.

I hope he redeems things with the eventual collision. If it's Harley making her umpteenth "No more Joker, he's behind me" declaration, I'll probably straight-up hate it - it's not going to stick, and I don't want that out of the character anyway. There's no way she actually kills him. I presume Brenda will hate it if she somehow returns to being his bubbly cheerleader in the end, and there's no way Calloway is going to write that. So it all hinges on a novel payoff. Which we'll see!