I admire DC’s restraint that they did not call the fourth volume of G. Willow Wilson’s title “Poison Ivy: Year One,” but Poison Ivy Vol. 4: Origin of the Species. (That it’s just three issues didn’t stop them with the even less-origin-y Batman Vol. 3: Joker: Year One.)

As is Wilson’s purview in writing the definitive Poison Ivy series, she goes back to the beginning here. No huge surprises, I don’t think, but Wilson’s origin strongly promotes some motifs of the series; it also fleshes out well some interesting side characters.