Tini Howard’s Harley Quinn Vol. 3: Clown About Town, like the volumes before it, is still overwritten and often clumsy when it comes to the little details of putting together a comic. At the same time, there’s a conversation here that, for DC, maybe could only be found in a Harley Quinn comic, or at least that Howard’s the only writer who’s been willing to have it.

I know by now my tastes and Howard’s don’t align and that I’m going to have trouble when I follow the DC Universe into one of her books, but I wholly respect the content here that no one else has produced.