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Poison Ivy is a strange series. I don't know whether I'm supposed to support Ivy or not.
She's clearly going through some trauma, and she's trying to figure out who she is now that she's been separated from the green and has lost much of her power, and this issue shows that she still has a huge capacity to be a good and decent person, but she's also determined to cause death on a massive scale.
Ivy has always been one of those 'villains' who has to be badly written. She has to be over the top, she had to want to do things that don't make sense and has to go too far because if she was written any other way she'd be a hero. I mean, why wouldn't we support her murdering the CEO of a huge polluting company with vines?
But in this series G. Willow Wilson is managing to make Ivy seem so reasonable, so kind, so decent, yet also horrifying and evil all at the same time. It's easily the most interesting and nuanced interpretation of the character I've ever seen, and I find it so incredibly fascinating and enjoyable.
In this issue Ivy spends some time staying at a small roadside motel, where she helps the owner to clear a small area behind the building, and plants a new garden. Now, Poison Ivy making a nice little garden might not sound that exciting or entertaining, but it honestly really is. This was one of the best issues of this series so far (a series that has been a consistent 5/5 each issue).
I honestly don't know what's going to be happening with this series next. I have no idea where Ivy is going to go, what she's going to do, and whether or not she's going to go through with her murder plan or not; and that makes this such an interesting and fascinating story. I love it.
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