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Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass Kindle & comiXology

by Mariko Tamaki (Author), Steve Pugh (Illustrator, Artist) Format: Kindle Edition
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With just five dollars and a knapsack to her name, 15-year-old Harleen Quinzel is sent to live in Gotham City. She’s not worried, though-she’s battled a lot of hard situations as a kid, and knows her determination and outspokenness will carry her through life in the most dangerous city in the world. And when Gotham’s finest drag queen, Mama, takes her in, it seems like Harley has finally found a place to grow into her most “true true” with new best friend Ivy at Gotham High. But when Mama’s drag cabaret becomes the next victim in the wave of gentrification that’s taking over the neighborhood, Harley’s fortune takes another turn.

Now Harleen is mad. In turning her anger into action, she is faced with two choices: join activist Ivy, who’s campaigning to make the neighborhood a better place to live, or team up with her anarchist friend Joker, who plans to take down Gotham one corporation at a time.

From Eisner Award and Caldecott Honor-winning author Mariko Tamaki (This One Summer) and Eisner Award-nominated artist Steve Pugh comes a coming-of-age story about choices, consequences, and how a weird kid from Gotham goes about defining her world for herself.
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"The fast-paced plot enhanced by Harley's trademark style of speech examines the impact of gentrification, and Harley’s character development follows a redemptive arc that will have readers rooting for her and her colorful family. A riotous read." —Kirkus Reviews

"Mariko Tamaki’s voice is absolute perfection in this altogether refreshing spin on a young Harleen Quinzel’s beginnings. Anchored by stunning art by Steve Pugh, readers get to revel in a Gotham City that has drag queens fighting gentrification, a familiar-named practical activist going against an all-consuming corporation, and an endearing delinquent just trying to find the fairy tale that fits her remarkable life. Shantay you stay (on my bookshelf for decades to come), Breaking Glass."
—Sina Grace, GLAAD Media Award nominated author of Iceman
 
"Breaking Glass is a standout achievement that demonstrates the unique blend of words, pictures, and color that comics offer. With its diverse cast and respect for the essential natures of long-beloved characters, Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass should appeal to comic book newcomers as well as longtime fans.” —Foreword Reviews

"A modern, funny, and satisfyingly fresh take on the origin of a superhero revolutionary." – School Library Journal Anna Murphy, Berkeley Carroll School, Brooklyn

About the Author

Mariko Tamaki is a Canadian writer living in Oakland. Works include New York Times bestseller This One Summer and Skim with Jillian Tamaki, Emiko Superstar with Steve Rolston and the YA novel (You) Set Me on Fire. This One Summer was the winner of Printz and Caldecott Honors in 2015 and received the Eisner award for Best Graphic Album (New).

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07WWD57PF
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ DC; Illustrated edition (September 3, 2019)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 3, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Mariko Tamaki is a New York Times Bestselling writer of comics and prose. Her graphic novels include Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me, with Rosemary Valero O’Connell, Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass, with Steve Pugh, Skim and This One Summer, with Jillian Tamaki. She has received Doug Wright, Eisner and Ignatz Awards as well as Caldecott and Printz Honors for her works. She has had the pleasure of working for Marvel, DC Comics, Abrams, Dark Horse and Boom Studios on various amazing superhero type things.

You can read all about her adventures at marikotamaki.blogspot.com.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Phenomenal Reinterpretation of Harley Quinn!
Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2019
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Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh’s “Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass” reinterprets Harley Quinn as a high school girl living in Gotham in the modern day. The concept resembles Jeffrey Thomas’s cancelled animated series, “Gotham High,” though Tamaki avoids the urge to force cameos of familiar characters, instead telling her own story. Using the income inequality of a major city like Gotham and the power structures that reinforce it as a backdrop, Tamaki focuses on Harley Quinn finding a group of misfits to call family and the struggles they go though just to find some joy in a world that seeks to grind them down. Along the way she meets Ivy, who introduces Harley to ways she can challenge the status quo, though Quinn naturally makes those ideas her own. The spoiled sons of the wealthy demonstrate all the sociopathic tendencies one would expect from children who have never had to face the consequences of their actions, with John Kane, heir to the Kane fortune and Millennium Enterprises, leading the bunch. Tamaki plays with the concept of performative identity in the story. Harley discovers her own as the story progresses, learning from drag queens how to express her bubbly personality through flamboyance. If she and her friends are expressing their inner joy to the world, people like the Kanes use a mask of joy to hide their soullessness. As Tamaki writes, “Harleen’s mother said to watch out for anyone who can’t smile with their eyes” (pg. 64). In nearly every scene, artist Steve Pugh perfectly depicts the Kanes’ smiles more like rictus grins than anything friendly. Through Ivy, Tamaki sums up the timeliness of the book’s message. Facing the eviction of her entire neighborhood to pave the way for luxury condos, Ivy says, “This is not just about Mama. Or you. Or me. It’s not just about Gotham. It’s everywhere. It’s corporations before communities. It’s a system that protects the rich, ----- the poor. That keeps the powerful, powerful and the oppressed, oppressed. It always has. It always will” (pg. 92). This comes through in Pugh’s art, which brilliantly uses color to set the mood. His depiction of characters is dynamic and lifelike while his color washes evoke emotion in a way more traditional coloring might not. DC markets their DC Ink line of graphic novels to young adults and “Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass” shows that, like other current YA fiction, they’re not shying away from addressing serious topics. Tamaki and Pugh write honestly about issues that teens will understand and they don’t try to sugarcoat the hard facts. Their book uses Quinn to tell a story that’s both faithful to her character and relevant to readers, further demonstrating the power of graphic novels.
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Brigid Keely
5.0 out of 5 stars Great update/re-imagning of some classic characters
Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2021
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"Breaking Glass" is a fantastic update/re-imagining of some classic DC characters.

Harley and Ivy are vastly different from their various origins... Ivy comes from a supportive, loving, politically active, community oriented family while Harley... doesn't. At least not originally. When her mom packs her on a bus to go stay with the grandmother in Gotham City that she doesn't know, however, she falls into a new family that offers her what she needs.

The area that Harley and Ivy live in is facing the threat of further gentrification. The people that have lived there for generations, who have homes and businesses there, whose kids go to school there, communities, are being pushed out so wealthy white people can move in. Ivy and her family are trying to fight this politically, while Harley thinks she's found a different way to fight it. And while all this is going on they're both high school students tackling the se xism, classism, and racism at their school.

The writing is top notch, which is frankly what I expect from Mariko Tamaki. She has a chance to really shine here. The art is incredible as well. I fell in love with Steve Pugh's work on "Hel lblazer" waaay back when and he's only gotten better.
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Edward
5.0 out of 5 stars Best book I've read in the past year
Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2019
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This book is so full of imagination, and is such a perfect match of author and artist.
From the author: the characters are awesome, the dialog is great, the story is original and absorbing from start to finish. I especially love Mama. She's the kind of character that it's hard to accept that she's fictional. She is SO real and likeable in the book, I really want to meet her.
From the artist: the depiction of the characters, and their expressions, is so real, and so unique, that every one of these characters springs to life. And the shading and coloring! I've never seen coloring like this, where the artist purposely uses a limited palette. Steve Pugh pulls it off like a master. Almost every page brought a new gasp of enjoyment.
I really don't the last time I've enjoyed a book this much.
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WQ
5.0 out of 5 stars Leuk.
Reviewed in the Netherlands on August 9, 2021
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Variatie op een thema.
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Pratik
5.0 out of 5 stars Great quality
Reviewed in India on April 17, 2021
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Book came in excellent quality and without even a single crease.
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Matt
5.0 out of 5 stars Magnificent
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 30, 2020
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I had been looking forward to this for a long time after reading the supergirl: Being Super series by the author, and i was not disappointed, this is another reimagining of Harley Quinn aimed at the younger teen market, therefore al the characters are aged down a bit. But for me the themes and story here get exactly to the point about Harley Quinn and what has made her such a fascinating character.
I would recommend this to all fans of Harley Quinn, but particularly to younger people looking for an accessible way into the mythology of the character.
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Kritiker
5.0 out of 5 stars Eine alternative realistischere Version
Reviewed in Germany on November 14, 2019
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Der Autor wählt hier eine andere Sichtweise auf den Charakter Harleen Quinzel, die bekannterweise später zu Harley Quinn wird. Diese Version wirkt weniger comichaft und könnte so auch in jeder heutigen Großstadt spielen. Also wer sich für den Charakter Harleen Quinzel interessiert, wird begeistert sein. Wer hingegen einen Comic im Stil der Harley Quinn Comicreihen erwartet, wird mit dieser Version eher seine Probleme haben.
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K. Lord
5.0 out of 5 stars This is great.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 20, 2021
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Tone of voice was exactly right plus fun teen high school stuff, ethical crime dilemmas and drag queens with heats of gold. Very well done.
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