I hold my hands up. Yes, the blind bag bug has its claws in me, though admittedly I’m still restricting myself to stuff I actually want to read, rather than just buying blind bags left, right and centre. So here we are with my next one; the second issue of the crossover, Harley Quinn x Elvira, which sees bras pushed to their limits, puns emerging from almost every dialogue bubble, double entendres flying forth and fourth walls broken on damn near every page.

Harley’s plan for a Halloween bash have hit a snag: Elvira doesn’t come cheap (though in the spirit of the plentiful innuendo within this comic, I suspect she herself would add that though she doesn’t come cheap, she does come often). So Harley and her gang hatch a plan to take on a mercenary job, and Elvira tags along.

Though that sounds straightforward enough, this issue is anything but. It’s a bit too hectic, in all honesty, with an almost overwhelming amount of fast paced, motormouth dialogue and a plot that somehow ends up feeling lazily contrived and far too convoluted for what should be a breezily campy, fun romp.

The art doesn’t help; it’s frustratingly inconsistent not only from page to page, but panel to panel. There’s some gorgeous artwork of our two protagonists, but it’s often side by side with some genuinely awful renditions of them both. It’s not helped by the fact that co-writer, Amanda Conner, provides two pages of art for a dream sequence which are absolutely gorgeous, making the rest of the issue look even poorer by comparison.

There’s still some fun to be had here, of course, but it does feel as if it’s trying to justify its existence a little too hard, when it should just be a raucous and silly caper. The characters themselves seem to not understand how to just take a breather every now and then; by the final panel (and again sticking to the innuendo so beloved by the writers), I was utterly spent.

All that said, I did find some cool variant covers in my triple-comic blind bag. Not that I have anything against the black-and-white covers I’ve discovered, but both the foil cover and the text-free, playing card-style ice cream cover are stunners, so I was very pleased to add these to my collection.

Regardless of the overall quality of the comic itself, I’ll definitely be checking out the third issue…for better or worse, I’m locked in and fully addicted now!

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