DC taking the piss out of Marvel’s Old Man Logan books? I’m up for that. Even though the original Old Man Logan by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven is an honest-to-goodness modern classic, I’m happy to see DC take a few shots at Marvel’s expense for a laff or two. But while I never thought it would be even half as good as the thing it’s aping I still didn’t think it was going to be THIS bad!
Old Lady Harley reads like Frank Tieri listing all the things he thought might be funny to see if DC characters were old and living in the post-apocalypse. So while some of the stuff here sounds good - it ain’t! Hoho, Wayne Gretzky’s the zombie president of Canada, Catwoman’s riding a motorised cart, Lobo lost his hair and got fat, Bane’s steroid abuse caught up with him and he’s a shrivelled husk of the man he was, and all the villains live in a retirement home! Geddit - cuz they olllllldds! Also the Batcave turns into a giant Bat-robot… that one’s actually on the borderline of so unhinged and barmy it’s cool.
Those things are kinda interesting for a moment and then when you realise that’s all it is - just the image of the thing - then it’s immediately boring. Because all Tieri’s done is hang all these things together for what they are, without any further development, on the flimsiest of plots: Joker’s dead but no he’s not and Harley’s finding out why because whatever - she needs something to do and she’ll never be free of Mistah J so that’s that.
Boring, pointless, meandering, unfunny, annoying - mix in numerous Mad Max references (‘member Fury Road? ‘member Thunderdome??) and that’s Old Lady Harley. An awful, tedious read. I suppose it’s on about the same level as Ed Brisson’s dismal Old Man Logan run so it succeeds on being the DC equivalent of that crapitude.
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