Harley Quinn, Vol. 3

After a couple of rather hit-and-miss volumes, the series is back on form with this release. While the (perhaps overly large) supporting cast of the previous run is largely absent, the sense of fun and craziness has returned, and most of the stories here work on that level. The sword-and-sorcery segment is perhaps a little too daft, and some of the others rather slight, but Humphries is building his own background, and, for example, the story poking fun at Batman does a good job. Perhaps best is that the anarchy is offset by a rather more sombre subplot, introduced in the Christmas story at the beginning of the collection.