Poison Ivy gets her own comic book title starting in January. The six-issue miniseries by DC Comics, titled Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death, is the villain's first solo outing.
Poison Ivy rose to fame as a Batman villain, a woman who is one of the world's most terrifying ecoterrorists. She has an affinity for plants and botany and will go to great lengths to protect Earth's nature from people. She also often uses toxins and pheromones derived from plants for her eco-related crimes.
Poison Ivy has also done time as a love interest for Bruce Wayne, but most recently became a partner in crime with her girlfriend Harley Quinn.
In Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death, Ivy faces a new challenge.
"Life. Death. Poison Ivy has power over both," wrote DC Comics in an emailed press release. "But can she keep her friends and hold down a regular job at the same time? As Dr. Pamela Isley, she joins the prestigious plant sciences department at Gotham Botanical Gardens, but things quickly get complicated when a fellow scientist is murdered and it looks like the work of Ivy!"
DC also released new images of artwork from the series by Clay Mann, including cover art, as well as sketches of Ivy's costume and interior pages.
As seen in these sketches, Harley Quinn also joins Poison Ivy as a guest star in the miniseries.
DC Comics announced the Poison Ivy miniseries, written by Amy Chu, back in July as part of its "All-New All-Different" campaign. Other characters getting similar solo titles are Metal Men, Swamp Thing and Katana.
"By bringing them on to their own special, limited series, we're really spotlighting what's so fantastic about these characters," said DC Comics editor in chief Bob Harras to USA Today.
DC Comics also promises that each miniseries will take these characters in new directions in ways that will affect them in later appearances in the DC universe.
"This is about character, but there is a complete story in every one of those miniseries," said DC co-publisher Dan DiDio. "It has a beginning, middle and end, and something that affects the course of that character that we would be able to launch and take further if things are successful."
Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death hits comic book stores in January.
