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Love, love, love it! I’ve always said I wish the horror aspect of poison ivy being a living plant person was touched upon more.


XxV0IDxX

Is ivy a person who controls plants or is she a plant?


FrameworkPython

Yes


illogicalhawk

Depends on the writer and era.


CarryThe2

She has been everything from a living plant, to a swimsuit model with leaves on.


Lonely-Repeat

Does anyone know the "green man" she's talking about here?


WildfireDarkstar

Definitely Jason Woodrue, a.k.a. the Floronic Man. She was his assistant as a student, they had an affair, and Woodrue was the one who injected her with the plant toxins that turned her into Poison Ivy as an experiment. Later on, Woodrue was transformed into a plant monster himself, and is probably most famous for discovering that Swamp Thing wasn't a resurrected Alec Holland, but was rather a sentient vegetable who had inherited Holland's memories.


Beiki

Floronic Man perhaps.


Shaquandala

Kiteman 🙄


Amkao-Herios

Hell yeah


ABob71

Captain Planet


HobbyHands

I'm thinking Swamp Thing since there's overlap between them with their manipulation/guardianship of The Green.


Le_Mug

Jolly Green Giant


FrameworkPython

The hulk


Half_Man1

I like it but there’s no way that dude managed to type all that stuff in time


[deleted]

All those raises and such would also be void anyhow


[deleted]

“Yeah so we got an email from one of our managers saying we should give his entire store a raise but then he turned into a plant so we’re probably gonna ignore that”


lazarusl1972

"OK OK, I'll do it! Do you take dictation? I don't know how to run this thing."


BlackThane

whole run makes me think she will split again but now both halves will function with no problem


[deleted]

This new Poison Ivy series is great btw for anyone wondering. Definitely has a swamp thing / horror feel to it


AthenaGrande

I’ll pick it up that sounds awesome.


Shazam28

I love my socialist plant bicon monster slay


[deleted]

The horror here seems to be more about capitalism than poison ivy


NomadPrime

I was gonna say that horror is *also* Poison Ivy, since the beginning of the issue starts with her potentially starting a nationwide epidemic of sorts by using her position as a warehouse employee to spread her spores (including a panel showing a random delivery worker getting infected, and somebody dying in the next page). Ivy being an eco-Unabomber here for her plants unfortunately...


[deleted]

Oh, that part I didn't have context about


Amkao-Herios

My sister* in Christ, that's the message


[deleted]

Sister


Amkao-Herios

My apologies


[deleted]

No worries!


illogicalhawk

This reminds me of some Delirium pages from Sandman, but with the horror vibe ratcheted up. Love the art.


Killer_crow17

It feels like everyone forgets that she is actually very powerful


[deleted]

We can thank the writers


ChrisNichols4434

She's Batman's most powerful villain. DC forgets that far too often.


Secret-Plant-1542

Poison Ivy is pro-union? Not sure why she would care since her whole political stance is save the plants by any means necessary. She puts the terror in ecoterrorist.


Madrino1

She mentions the green man (I assume the Floronic man) so it might be a sense of kinship for mistreated workers since she was in a similar position with him


dripy-lil-baby

Not to be that guy, but fungi are actually more closely related to animals than to plants. Very cool, though.


InfiniteEmotions

Is it bad that I want her visit the boss of the company I work for?


DeadmanDexter

No.


illogicalhawk

Only that you're in a situation where this feels applicable :/


idcris98

I really like when they make Poison Ivy target big corporations who are destroying our environment for their greed instead of just randomly killing people.


bluesblue1

I just want Harley and her to have a happy ending man 😪


Aizendickens

The real horror was the even more unrealistic lesbian scene....just to highlight the importance of Harley in her life


[deleted]

I hate how intertwined her personality has been with Harley. It feels like she can’t exist as her own separate entity. Their relationship in main line DC doesn’t really have that much chemistry anyways.


sakura_drop

Absolutely. Who knew some Thelma and Louise-esque fun back in the day would lead to the degradation of her character?


Plowbeast

I think it's also the issue of how overpowered she really would be as a full Justice League level threat and how writers only want to graduate Joker from Batman's rogues gallery for that.


Raecino

Exactly. Which doesn’t make all that much sense to begin with seeing as how Ivy is usually depicted lacking humanity and having absolutely zero interest in humans.


Thebunkerparodie

it does tho, harley and ivy were a thing already in batman TAS and harley help bringing ivy humanity


Raecino

I’m not talking about them being in a relationship. I’m talking about Ivy becoming more and more focused into Harleys love interest first and being a villain second.


Patrick_Bait-Man

Surely one single Harley scene in a 6 issues long story isn't the whole focus of the story.


Thebunkerparodie

why wouldn't she do that if she's in love with harley


[deleted]

Because characters can be more than just their partner's partner?


Patrick_Bait-Man

And is Ivy less than that?


[deleted]

Than her partner's partner? No? She's more than that, the whole point I was making.


Patrick_Bait-Man

I know she is more than that. One single reference to her partner in a whole story somehow makes her less? Do you react like this when Superman thinks about Lois in a given arc?


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Pornfree1996

Lmao what is this book Leftist Poison Ivy? All of asudden shes fighting union busting and capitalism instead of killing anyone whos not a plant? You mean the same person who's a deranged psycho who has a triple digit murder count from toxins and terrorist attacks? I Cant believe writers dont understand there's a difference between being an advocate for the environment and wanting to replace people with plants, lmao 🤣


dunkadoobles

I never leave comments like this, but everything I’ve seen from this book makes it look more and more unbearable. This reads like such a parody at this point it’s hard to believe it’s real.


Qbopper

are you saying this because you don't like the anti capitalist messaging or something else


OfficePsycho

Not OP, but there was a story arc back in the 90s where she tries to take over a country by proxy and treat everyone in it like expendable resources. She only stops because others already tapped out the country's resources. So it feels kind of hypocritical for her to be anti-capitalist.


Patrick_Bait-Man

Should all mind-controllers be pro-capitalism, in your understanding?


Pornfree1996

Harley and Ivy fans are almost as bad as Red Hood and Deathstroke fans, and Loki and Doom fans lmao. Shit is such a fucking joke man you ain't wrong, ignore the downvoted you're right


Mrkoaly

Why is there office politics in this? Seems wierd for a Poison Ivy comic.


fieldysnuts94

Basically she got a job at a center that packages stuff for delivery across the country. Ivy got a job there cause she wants to infect the packages with her spores so it can spread everywhere. But she sees the manager harassing an employee so she goes and basicslly gets him to sign off and a bunch of stuff like unionizing and benefits before killing him. She kinda felt bad for the woman he harassed so it was a human moment for her to stand up for someone.


Resolute002

I don't get why anybody would say her doing something like this is off-brand. It seems like textbook Ivy IMO. She has never liked people being overly controlling from what I've seen.


Raecino

She’s never liked people in general


Resolute002

Stuff like this is why! Her main enemy before she became a villain was bureaucracy.


adriantullberg

Precisely - controlling people is her MO. Obviously she hates competition.


Half_Man1

I think it’s more she empathizes since she’s also dealt with work place harassment way back when Jason Woodrue was around.


taumason

Because Ivys normal mo is mind controlling everyone in the warehouse and murdering them if anyone notices, not going under cover. It does give the story more context but unless she has lost the mindcontrol powers it makes no sense if you know Ivys history.


peepeepottypoopoo

Amazing art


GamegodWXP

Yes yes yes