Bad Seeds – Week 6, Part 1: The Verdant Villainess’s Powers Are At An All-Time High in Poison Ivy #48

By Chad Burdette

 on September 25, 2026

Harley Quinn is no longer a professor, prisoner, or multiversal traveller.

She’s back in Gotham and circling around her previous role as a rogue for the heroes of the city.

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As the sun goes down and Gotham loses power, Matt Fraction (Batman), G. Willow Wilson (Poison Ivy), Giuseppe Camuncoli (Absolute Evil), and Cliff Rathburn (The Walking Dead) deliver an unforgettable opening chapter that shows the only thing scarier than the night just might be the morning sun

Gotham City’s new mayor, Pamela Isley, deserted by her allies both political and arcane, is about to make a last-ditch power play that will leave Gotham decimated by daylight.

Having already declared war on the Bat-Family and flooded the streets with his private, paramilitarized police army, Police Commissioner Vandal Savage sees an opportunity to solve two problems at once.

Storylines converge in Batman: Bad Seeds, a Gotham City event spanning one long, dark night in Gotham that threatens to turn the entire city into a hostile world of prehistoric plant life unlike anything on Earth for millennia, at a time when its greatest heroes are hunted and in hiding.

Comic Watch Bad Seeds Event Reviews:

• Prologue: Poison Ivy #47: Bad Seeds Prologue
• Part 1: Batman Bad Seeds Sunset #1: A Perfect Set-Up
• Part 2: Batman #13: Bad Seeds, Decent Tie-In
• Part 3: Batgirl #23: A Quieter Bad Seeds Tie-In
• Part 4: Bad Seeds  Gotham Central #1: A Grounded Police Story
• Part 5: Batwoman #7: A Dark Mission
• Part 6: Detective Comics #1113: Art-Driven Excitement
• Part 7: Catwoman #91: The View on the Street
• Part 8: Nightwing #142
• Part 9: Harley Quinn #66

The verdant villainess’s powers are at an all-time high in Poison Ivy #48

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Poison Ivy #48

With Gotham City firmly in Poison Ivy’s grasp, the verdant villainess’s powers are at an all-time high.

Now that Batman’s forces and Ivy’s traitorous former allies are all ground down to a pulp beneath her, is there anyone left to stand in Ivy’s way? Absolutely not. It’s time to get in line or die.

The verdant villainess’s powers are at an all-time high in Poison Ivy #48 on shelves and digital platforms on September 30, 2026, from DC Comics