Thirteen is the lucky number for the Gotham City Sirens, as Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, and Catwoman are back together for a new series for the first time in thirteen years. The last time that the beloved triumvirate joined forces was in 2011 for Paul Dini and Guillem March’s Gotham City Sirens series. But now everyone’s favorite anti-heroes are back for a wild new story — in more ways than one.
Per Polygon, DC Comics is launching a weekly Gotham City Sirens miniseries by Leah Williams, Matteo Lolli, Daniel Hillyard, and Brandt & Stein. Gotham City Sirens #1, available this August, will reunite the infamous Gotham trio in their own “team” series, throwing them into a western-themed story that no one saw coming.
The news comes with a bevy of covers and variant covers, as well as character designs from series artist Matteo Lolli. Lolli’s art will be featured in issues #1 and #3 of this four-issue series; Hillyard will take issues #2 and #4, with Brandt & Stein on the over-sized #4, too. Triona Farrell is on colors for each issue with Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou on letters. Polygon’s interview with Leah Williams suggests that DC plans to showcase the Gotham City Sirens like never before.
This new iteration of the Gotham City Sirens will land DC’s anti-heroines in a Western-themed adventure as the three square off against Punchline on Gotham’s county line. Behind Punchline are the Nasty Boys, whom Leah Williams describes in an interview with Polygon as “ominously horny half-naked cowboys with automatic assault weapons.” Williams also reveals that ongoing issues of the series Catwoman, Harley Quinn, and Poison Ivy will all be on pause during the month of August in anticipation of Gotham City Sirens #1, something Williams learned from her friend, frequent collaborator, and Catwoman and Harley writer, Tini Howard.
Williams can’t give away too many details about the plot, but does mention that she based the story on a wildlife encounter she had in the middle of Montana concerning an “alien creature” with “black spiraling horns and black eyes and stripes.” While Williams admits that such a close encounter of the third kind sounds too far-fetched to take place in real life, this is certainly the perfect setting for the world of Gotham City. Naturally, with the Gotham City Sirens team being comprised of plant lovers and animal lovers, they’ll be investigating the matter further — with great costumes to boot.
As if placing the Gotham City Sirens in a western setting weren’t delightful enough, the prospect of them investigating (or perhaps even fighting or taming) some wild, intergalactic beats sounds promising in itself. What feels especially promising is just how much DC Comics seems to be pushing the Gotham City Sirens’ return. The fact that the publisher is actively pausing three of its popular ongoing series in August to give the weekly Gotham City Sirens series room to breathe suggests that DC has huge plans in store for the trio, and fans of Harley Quinn, Catwoman, and Poison Ivy should be wholly excited.
Gotham City Sirens #1 is available August 7th — and then weekly — from DC Comics.
Source: Polygon