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(Just in case someone doesn't want to read all the text, clarifying that I mean THE MAIN ONGOING COMIC, not separate stuff, one-shots, or miniseries. Nothing like Mad Love or Harleen.)

So, I don't know if you guys knew this, but last February the current Harley Quinn run by Elliot Kalan & co. managed to reach the 200th issue milestone for the character.
She reached issue 200 after arguably only 12 years of publication,* in only 3 volumes. This is a very rare achievement in superhero comics. Heck, Amazing Spider-Man has been relaunched FIVE times in the same 12 years! Spider-Man!

However, despite this, you very rarely see Harley Quinn in online discourse, except for complaints: "No way Harley could beat X character", "Harley is a bum", "Harley should get back to her original costume", "Harley sucks", or "Harley is always getting humiliated."

I know what you will say, I know the reasoning behind each argument, but I ain't here for that. I'm here because, after 200 issues, I'm legitimately interested to know if she has good runs among them. I mostly just see praise for the Karl Kessel run, but when I asked for the best comics from the latest years, no one seemed to mention any Harley Quinn comics.

Is it that bad? Even if you think Harley is selling badly and DC just keeps pushing her hard for marketing reasons (which I find an insane thing to do for 12 years, but ok), surely not all of those 200 issues can be terrible? Harley Quinn comic readers, do you exist? Have DC and the Internet gaslit me?

So, enough about complaints. As someone who hasn't read a lot of Harley runs outside of her current tenure, what is her best stuff from the MAIN ongoing comic?

*For this to work semantically, I'm doing the dirty trick of ignoring the Karl Kessel run due to the huge gap between its end in 2004 and the start of her newly refreshed runs in 2014. In all fairness, that leaves us with 162 (currently 165) issues in 12 years, which is still a very impressive feat.

Remember, friends: if you are hearing an opinion about superheroes in general, and it comes from a Spiderman fan, you should ignore it and pretend it doesn't exist.

Your mental health would go down if you start treating Spiderman fans like people.

For this one I posted my latest ratposting meme. I'm kinda proud of this one, so I wanna share it a bit, call me a rat bastard if you may. However, as I did in the OP, Im also putting a blank version of the rat ogre swarm (second image), so feel free to use it for your memes or shitposting, as long as you recognise my authority.

(yes, i made a generic version that doesn't require reading books)

Any feedback is apreciated!

So, before you staart furiously typing, NO, SCREAMING BELL DOESN'T NEED AN UPDATE, the model is fine. However, there are some signs on the wall that are ascreaming (heh) an update is coming:

-A second wave of clan Pestilens has been aluded in rumours, and it looks likely it's coming. The problem here is, if you want to update all of the clan Pestilens models, you want to update the pebeteiro, and since it shares sprue with the screaming bell...

-If a second skaven wave is coming, GW allways likes to add centerpiece models to those. updating the screaming bell looks like the mosst logical move.

-An actual fact: GW wants to clean the slate of TOW models from AoS factions. This is one of the last remaining ones on our range. While the screaming bell is in, you can't unlegacy skaven to TOW

-It's too much iconic to not get a new mini some time in the future

That said, looking at the trend, it seems like a new screaming bell made by GW should have a lot of mini-rats on the base, warpstone, and movement. I wouldnt be surprised if it stops having a crew and instead gets something more automatic. My preference? No radical changes, just a new rat, perhaps a taller model, and a bigger bell I guess? Model is perfect tbh.