Poison Ivy writer G. Willow Wilson talks about Ivy as Mayor and what to expect from the upcoming issue number 50.
Wilson has been on the title since its inception. In that run, Ivy has become more and more popular with the citizens of Gotham City. This has culminated to her being elected Mayor of Gotham in issue #41. Now with #50 fast approaching, the writer teases what machinations Ivy will get up into.
Yeah, as we move towards issue #50, Ivy has seized power as Mayor of Gotham. Shockingly, she’s done a terrible job. In one last desperate attempt to maintain power as her popularity tanks, she unleashes a bunch of prehistoric plants across Gotham, plunging it into darkness. So, as we come out of that event, there’s a lot that’s being reset in her life. She’s lost a lot of her allies, she’s been injured, and she has to really take stock of her life.
In issue #50, we’re really kind of resetting the board, and people who’ve been invested in Ivy long term will get to see the fallout of the past couple of years of story. There are some consequences, and she’s going to end up with a lot less power and influence at her disposal and have to figure out how she’s going to claw it back. She’s really back at the beginning and has to decide who she wants to be going forward and what role she wants to play in Gotham, and who she is as a person. There’s a lot of really meaty story because she’s going to have to use her botany degree and her real-world science knowledge to get herself out of this trap that she’s put herself in. It’s going to be a lot of fun.
Gotham-wide, we have some fun events coming up and Ivy’s right smack in the middle of everything.
Why ‘Poison Ivy’ Has Been So Successful
Willow also talked about what makes Poison Ivy such a successful character. She pointed to how she is a villain who has a ton of charisma, which always makes her engaging.
What we’ve tried to do in this run of Poison Ivy is really bring together all of the separate story threads about her that have accumulated over the decades. She’s really one of those characters that has changed a lot decade to decade. Her backstory, her power set, her costume, even her personality changes depending on who’s writing Batman and what Gotham City is like. What we’ve tried to do is tie all of those threads together into a story that feels very cohesive, very compelling. You really get to ride around in Ivy’s mind and see the world through her eyes. That’s something that we haven’t been able to do as readers, in a long form anyway, in the history of this character.
She has staying power because of her charisma. In this series, we just try to do justice to that—do a deep dive into her motives and her passions. It makes for a very dark, propulsive, sexy story.
Poison Ivy #45 hits comic book shops on June 3rd.
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