Harley Quinn seems caught between her past, present, and future. Then she finds out about this impromptu road trip from her children. For someone who's dealt with the Joker and Jack and seen every side of him, what's her reaction to everything that's unfolding in this book?
Collins: It's funny. We took her on a similar journey in the "White Knight" Harley book where she's ... [There's] that self-discovery of, "Who am I if I'm not a villain, and who am I besides a mom?" But especially right now, she feels lost in having to deal with these teenagers. She's got one kid, which is Bryce, who seems to do everything right. He is the A-plus student, he listens to her when she says to go to bed, he gets his homework done ... Then there's Jackie, who runs away from home and is the one who seems to be falling down this darker path. I think [Harley] is — beneath it all — terrified, probably like many parents are, that they're somehow messing it all up or not doing everything they could do, even when they're working themselves to the bone to be the best parent they can be.
McCormack: She's trying to spin a lot of plates at once in this story. She's starting to fray a bit at the edges from being pulled in multiple directions with having to find her kids, and then their father is now an electronic ghost who's stolen a car, and the FBI is involved, and Batman's out there somewhere, and there's other people involved that are coming in. She's being pulled in a lot of different directions ... Her goal is, "I need to get these kids back," so she's trying to push through everything — all of that other noise — to get back to her family.
Collins: No one says no to Harley Quinn, so the moment the FBI is like, "You can't come" — yeah, she's not going to listen to that.
Speaking of the FBI and Batman, we last saw Batman joining Diana Prince and John Stewart in "Beyond" on the search for a potential threat of Superman.
McCormack: It does continue that story. That's probably about [what] we could say there.
Collins: It's a parallel to that story, so you get glimpses of what's happening with good old Bats. You also see him taking part in trying to find what are his kids too, essentially his stepchildren. There are threads that are woven between the two stories that will be unveiled later, for sure.
McCormack: On the surface, it might not seem like they are connected, but when you get to the end, you'll see how connected they actually are.
Can we expect to see more heroes who have not played major parts in the "White Knight" universe appear in this series?
Collins: Yes.
McCormack: There are some other familiar faces that might not be exactly the way you remember seeing them, but they'll be familiar to you.
