Recent Poison Ivy storylines

[frostedone]

Can anyone please list some good recent Poison Ivy storylines?

Post 2000 please, and I have already read the Joker's Asylum issue. I also read the Bruce Timm/Paul Dini Harley and Ivy miniseries which was great. Thanks.

[Greg Anderson]

She appeared in an issue of Detective Comics by Dini. It was issue #823.

[Captain Jim]

Can anyone please list some good recent Poison Ivy storylines?

Post 2000 please, and I have already read the Joker's Asylum issue. I also read the Bruce Timm/Paul Dini Harley and Ivy miniseries which was great. Thanks.

For a moment I thought you wanted us to post a list of 2000 different issues. :eek:

[Brack360]

A good Poison Ivy story was "A Walk in the Park" in Detective Comics #751-752.

Poison Ivy was also featured prominently in Batman: Gotham Knights #61-65, but I would avoid that story arc because it was not very good.

[foxley]

Batman/Poison Ivy: Cast Shadows was a pretty good one-shot that came out in 2004.

[frostedone]

Thanks everyone! The Batman/Poison Ivy Cast Shadows story was particularly good. Anyone know of any more stories?

[AlistairCrane]

I don't know if it's a good story because I didn't read it, but she just had her own one-shot, "Joker's Asylum: Poison Ivy", that should still be in stores.

[earl]

The Gotham Knights storyline was totally goofy and ended with her dead. That was one of only many things wrong with that terrible story. I would do like every Batman writer and editor from here on out and completely ignore it ever was published.

Poison Ivy hasn't really been around too much since No Man's Land and the follow up story, which is that Walk in the Park story. It seems like often she is as a supporting character to the story, not the featured villain. She had a role in the Hush story and made an appearance in the beginning of the Face the Face story. That story kind of started the eco-terrorist version of Ivy that has been a part of her recent appearances. There was a follow up issue from her getting caught in Face the Face in Detective.

I think that is about it for the past few years at least in the Bat titles that I can recall other than maybe a cameo appearance.

If you want to read a really good older Poison Ivy story, look up a story called Hot House in Legends of the Dark Knight issues #42 & #43. That is a really good story with some great P.Craig Russell artwork. The issues are not too expensive and they were reprinted at one point in a trade called "Collected Legends of the Dark Knight".

[foxley]

Earlier than the 2000 cut-off but two other good one-shots were:

Batman/Green Arrow: The Posion Tomorrow (1992)

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/4377/200/4377_2_1.jpg

and Batman: Poison Ivy (1997)

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/14766/200/14766_2_001.jpg

[nepenthes]

A Walk in the Park, Detective Comics 751 & 752
Harley & Ivy tpb
Batman & Poison Ivy: Cast Shadows
Human Nature, Gotham Knights 60 - 65
Gotham Central 32 (this is uncollected)
FacetheFace2, Batman 651
Stalked, Detective Comics 823

that's the best of it. Human Nature is indeed a diabolical story but it's definitely worth reading if you're looking for Ivy. maybe it has some moments even

there's also Arkham Asylum Living Hell 4-6, Batgirl 51 & 52, Detective 797-799 (back-up story featuring post-hush Riddler), Gotham Knights 15 and of course Hush.

if you ever see the Solo 06 Jordi Benet issue buy it it's got a hilarious 8page story by Brian Azarello

edit - I know said post2000 but if you haven't read her No Mans Land arc, you really need to. It's in the NML Vol.3 trade. Also essential is Hothouse, in Legends of the DarkKnight 15&16 or The Collected LotDK trade.

[Schornforce]

If you want to read a really good older Poison Ivy story, look up a story called Hot House in Legends of the Dark Knight issues #42 & #43. That is a really good story with some great P.Craig Russell artwork. The issues are not too expensive and they were reprinted at one point in a trade called "Collected Legends of the Dark Knight".

I remember that one. IIRC, one of my favorite things regarding that story was that Ivy looked kinda pretty, but... well... plain.

It was her pheremones and hallucinagenic chemicals that made her appear more seductive/impish/plantlike. She relied more on her toxins and pheremones than on giant killer plants, if I'm not mistaken. Hopefully, I'll eventually find that somewhere in my comics again and re-read it.

[frostedone]

Thanks everyone! I am going to the comic book shop next week, so I am planning on picking up some of these. Thanks again.