Harley Quinn makes April Fools’ Day 2025 memorable with a not-so-sweet-smelling DC Comics special

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It’s still early, but we’re confident we can already predict what the weirdest-smelling comics will be in 2025. Hidden in DC’s March 2025 recruitment is something called “Harley Quinn Fartactular: Silent Butt Deadly #1.” I promise this is not a gag on our behalf.

Here is the official description of this comic by DC: Just to remind you again, this is actually DC’s official description for this comic. “I’ve had all the worst parts of bubble guts for the past 32 years, and it all led to this epic banishment!” Your nose will never be the same! You’ll gag, you’ll cry, you’ll feel things you’ve never felt before! This wonderful publication is a celebration of all that’s gone, all that was, and all that’s Thule. Sequential art’s place in history is about to change with the release of Harley Quinn Fartacular: Silent Butt Deadly, a comic that promises to have the highest gas concentration per page (GPP) ever put into print. Masu. Everyone who worked on this comic is going to be thrown into Dr. Furtley’s house of no-good gassy gals, so emphasize the dedication. ”

This isn’t the first Harley Quinn comic to test your sense of smell. In 2014, DC released Harley Quinn Annual #1. The comic was advertised as having “the scent of leather, suntan lotion, and pizza, plus one scent.” (P.S. It was weed.) Note the use of the word “scratch and sniff” instead of the more common “scratch.” And sniff.” This is very intentional. The latter term is proprietary intellectual property, as is Choose Your Own Adventure, so we won’t discuss it. thank you. (Fartacular also has a smell when rubbed. Please be careful.)

We can only imagine why Harley became the poster child for thought-provoking comics about smell, but we’re fascinated by unexpected coincidences. If it happens again, perhaps in 2036, if we stick to the timing that we obviously have, will it become a trend?

In case you think we’ve all succumbed to the steam, we’d like to point out that this one-off issue comes from a creative team that is anything but stinky. — writes popverse favorite Joan Starrer (Fire & Ice: Welcome to Mallville). Art by the underrated but wonderful Ted Brandt and Law Stein, various covers by Amanda Conner and Ben Caldwell (you can see them all in the gallery above) — and the book ships in March 26 That makes it pretty much the ideal comic for anyone looking for seasonal April Fool’s Day fun.

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