In their second annual comic book team-up adventure, Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, and Catwoman will set off on another bizarre adventure while their main titles take a little summer vacation. In a follow up to last year’s Gotham City Sirens, writer Leah Williams (X-Factor, Power Girl) joins artist Haining (Spirit World, Poison Ivy) to take everyone’s favorite Gotham City gals to space — sort of.
The Gotham City Sirens return for another gonzo adventure this summer
Leah Williams and Haining take the trio from fighting cowboys to fighting aliens
Image: Terry Dodson, Rachel Dodson/DC Comics
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Polygon can exclusively reveal the new miniseries, titled Gotham City Sirens: Unfit for Orbit, is launching on July 2 and running weekly for five issues. “Back by popular demand,” Williams said in a press release, “the Sirens are returning to take down their most dangerous foe yet — Despero! (The fact that they might have to save the world in the process of defeating Despero is more or less incidental.)”
Despero, the telepathic alien tyrant, is a bit of a wild choice to pit against three street-level anti-heroines, but given that last year’s miniseries featured, as Williams put it, “ominously horny half-naked cowboys with automatic assault weapons,” I fully believe she can land this plane. Or spaceship. But not a real spaceship, a space-themed nightclub. Per DC Comics’ official solicit summary of Gotham City Sirens: Unfit for Orbit #1:
There’s a hot new outer space-themed nightclub in Gotham City, and who better to rob it than Catwoman, Ivy, and Harley? But there’s more to this intergalactic discotheque than meets the eye(s), as the Sirens discover when they stumble headfirst into a plot to destroy the entire planet led by the club’s owner — the alien despot Despero! I hope you have good insurance, Gotham City, because you’re about to get wrecked. Special appearances by deadly DJs, hunky alien hotties, dancers dressed as aliens, mutant failures, one wild UFO, and lots and lots of fire!
“Who could say no to a chaotic party starring the Gotham City Sirens and Despero? I know I couldn’t!” Haining added.
DC confirmed that the Catwoman, Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn solo books will skip their July issues while Gotham City Sirens takes the stage. Just as with its predecessor series, all of the issues will feature main covers from Terry and Rachel Dodson, an interlocking set of variant covers by Guillem March, and a host of other cool variant covers, this time from artists Helen Mask, Noobovich, and Kyuyong Eom. You can check those out below.
The Dodsons’ main covers for Gotham City Sirens: Unfit for Orbit #1-3:
Image: Terry Dodson, Rachel Dodson/DC Comics
Image: Terry Dodson, Rachel Dodson/DC Comics
Image: Terry Dodson, Rachel Dodson/DC Comics
Variant covers for issue #1:
Image: Noobovich/DC Comics
Image: Kuyong Eom/DC Comics
Image: Helen Mask/DC Comics
And the complete connecting covers from Guillem March:
Image: Guillem March/DC Comics
Image: Guillem March/DC Comics
Image: Guillem March/DC Comics
Image: Guillem March/DC Comics
Image: Guillem March/DC Comics
Image: Guillem March/DC Comics
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