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Warning : Contains spoilers forPoison Ivy # 20 !
Summary
Gotham is filled to the brim with painted and costumed scallywag , despiteBatman’sconstant endeavour to keep them at bay laurel . But one special threat was brewing before some of its well - known faces enter the setting . Bella Garten , also known as the Gardener , has been creating her monsters sincePoison Ivywas a simple student . The only thing keeping her from turning on the urban center is her own pick .
Poison Ivy#20 by G. Willow Wilson and Marcio Takara offers an in - depth look atPoison Ivy ’s other yearsas Pamela Isley , one of Jason Woodrue ’s students . This issue boast the beginnings of her affaire with Bella Garten . Batman Secret Files : The Gardener # 1already give a coup d’oeil into the family relationship between the two and their several employment in botany , but this new account is less forgiving of Garten ’s other experiments .
Instead , it paints her as at the same time brilliant and dangerous as she attempts to hone her industrial plant and animal hybrids . The Gardener romanticizes her achievements , but learn her early monstrous macrocosm proves thatBella Garten has the potential drop to be a major terror to Gotham and even the entire DC Universe .
Batman Secret Files : The Gardener#1 by James Tyion IV and Christian Ward was eject in November 2021 as a tie - in to the Batman Family crossing over report , Fear State .
The Gardener Is as Dangerous as Poison Ivy
Just likeher relationship with Poison Ivy , Bella ’s morality is complex . Both fair sex have noble enough intention and genuinely need to bring through the globe . In Garten ’s compositor’s case , she wants to give the planet ’s vulnerable forest a way to hold themselves against the menace of world . Though the core of her cause is well - intentioned , her approach has always been twisted . Ivy ’s report inPoison Ivy#20 and the Gardener ’s retentivity from herFear Stateorigin topic both show that she take her experiments in secret alongside the research she did for Woodrue . But each issue differs sharp in their portrayal of this new anti - champion .
Ivy ’s vamp rootage electric arc begins inPoison Ivy#19 by Wilson and Takara .
Instead of the comparatively non - menacing early hybrids Bella remembers , Pam encounters something far more alarming : a chimpanzee - plant monster that makes her realise how far her married person is unforced to go to finish her employment . Ironically , the Gardener comes to think the same ofthe future Poison Ivy , leave behind them both with the impression that the other has gone too far to achieve her ambition . The truth is , Garten was well on her direction to becoming a terror before Poison Ivy existed as more than an over - eager student , andshe has all the intelligence agency and capableness to become a full - fledge supervillain .
DC may have irreversibly break the once - unbreakable bond between Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy by adding a shocking twist to their relationship .
Poison Ivy’s Ex the Gardener Could Take Gotham by Storm
artistic creation fromBatman Secret Files : The Gardener#1 by Tynion , Ward , and Tom Napolitano
The only matter cease Bella from becoming a serious problem for Gotham ( or whatever metropolis she set her sight on ) is her own desire to forfend the dogfight of vigilance man and superheroes . She has perfected her plant and animal hybrids , meaning she has many monsters like her loan-blend hounds at her beck and call . With slight sweat , theGardener could set on on the same scale as Poison Ivyand turn her workplace against all of humanity . The Gardener has been operating longer thanPoison Ivyand many ofBatman’sother rapscallion , and she could easily become even more venomous .
Poison Ivy#20is uncommitted now from DC Comics .
POISON IVY # 20 ( 2022 )
