Poison Ivy's New Psychedelic Form is A New Kind of Evil
Warning: Spoilers for Poison Ivy #1!
The Batman villain and sometimes anti-hero known as Poison Ivy has had more than a few wardrobe changes over the years, and now in her brand new solo series, she’s been given a psychedelic form that is as terrifying as it is visually striking.
Introduced in the first issue of Ivy's new limited series simply titled Poison Ivy, writer G. Willow Wilson and artist Marcio Takara immediately hit the ground running as they kick off what could be the final tale of Poison Ivy’s long and villainous career. Revealed in the opening pages that Ivy is slowly “succumbing” to her own poison stemming from her recent loss of power in the aftermath of the Batman-centric event dubbed Fear State, Ivy is on a new mission that paints her in a more villainous light than how she’s been portrayed as of late.
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Downgraded in her abilities to manipulate The Green, Ivy still has a unique way of taking out her enemies when needed. Using a spore called Ophiocordyceps Lamia, Poison Ivy explains that they are “parasitic mushrooms” that induce «a feeling of relaxed euphoria” before essentially biodegrading her victims back into the Earth. And it’s here, in this „psilocybin-induced light show” that Ivy’s new psychedelic form is made known.
Forced to defend herself from a couple of aggressive bar patrons, Poison Ivy uses some of her new spore powers on them to immediate effect. And as they begin to morph into a kind of mushroomy mulch before her very eyes, they are instead seeing a completely different form of evil manifest before them. Looking like a green monster goddess with sweeping red hair standing on end and a bunch of pointed plant-like elements
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