Sirens: Love Hurts (2026-) #2

Sirens: Love Hurts #2

by Tini Howard, Babs Tarr (Artist)

Things heat up in Gotham City as Catwoman, Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn, and their reluctant new partner in crime—solving, that is—Black Canary hunt down leads in their serial killer case. Catwoman ropes Batman into some steamy surveillance work, Harley and Ivy pour out the wine as they pore over evidence, and Canary...well, the only thing keeping her sane amidst wedding dress shopping and her too-fancy engagement party is getting her knuckles a little bruised and blood during suspect interrogations. But as the bodies pile up and Halloween looms large over Gotham, the Sirens realize working together across enemy lines proves harder than your average Justice League team-up. When the killer suddenly turns the sharp point of their knife from the city's most vulnerable women to the Sirens themselves, will the threat unite the mat long last? Or tear their alliance apart for good?

Genres: Comics, Dc Comics

Kindle Edition

Published March 11, 2026

Reviews

[hater ★ · Rating 5 out of 5]

aaaaaaa im obsessed with this series!!! it’s so fun, and i just know it’s going to become a comfort read for me. I love the relationships so much… and the girls are everything!!! <33

[Machiavelli · Rating 5 out of 5]

This series is just fun. Tini Howard leans hard into the messy friendships and romantic chaos between Harley, Ivy, Selina, and Black Canary, and it works. The whole thing reads like a stylish, slightly unhinged Gotham girls’ night that keeps getting interrupted by a serial killer.

Babs Tarr’s art is the real star—bold, expressive, and full of attitude. Every page pops with personality.

Not the deepest comic in the world, but it’s confident, funny, and wildly entertaining. I had a blast with it.

[Immigration Art · Rating 5 out of 5]

The entertaining story continues! More clues present themselves in the murder mystery. The plot thickens! Catwoman smashes Batman between the sheets. Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn make out like no tomorrow. And the Black Canary gets pulled deeper into wedding planning and engagement party festivities.

What's not to like?

This series is seriously fun. 5 Stars!

[AJ Easterday · Rating 5 out of 5]

*4.5 stars

I am absolutely loving where this series is going. It is so fun. Babs Tarr's art is such a joy. I love that there is a mystery going on but there's also lots of focus on the characters' personal lives and relationships. This is excellent. Some of Tini Howard's best writing.

[Jadyn❀ · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love it!!! I’ll start with the art, which is gorgeous as always from Babs Tarr. It is bright, colorful, dynamic, fun— and the outfits are incredible. I especially loved the little illustrations of the voices of Barbara, Dick, Harley, Ivy and Selina in Dinah’s head when she’s alone at the party. The imagery of the Sirens as Macbeth’s witches was perfect.
There’s a lot more time passing in this issue, but a lot of progress made. The killer’s very unique zodiac aesthetic is the kind of thing that I can see someone reading as silly, but I feel like we should also keep in mind that that’s basically precedent for Gotham villains. It’s a niche that admittedly fits right in amongst Gotham villains, and even does the legwork for you in comparing her to existing villain Calendar Man while also emphasizing their differences.
The Sirens continue to work together while also pursuing the case in their own ways individually. Harley and Ivy make an important discovery while analyzing evidence, Selina investigates with Batman (and more. God I love Batcat), and Dinah brings in Renee Montoya as her police contact. Renee was an awesome inclusion for this book. She’s such an underrated female player in Gotham City, so she more than justifies her place in this book.
Though they didn’t really do much here, it’s always a treat for me when Barbara Gordon and Dick Grayson are around, together, with extra bonus points when they’re drawn by Babs Tarr. I don’t know what made Howard & Tarr decide that Dick should be leading Dinah’s wedding planning, but what a hilarious concept. Can’t wait for more glimpses of these two.
Don’t dismiss this book just for its unapologetically girly dialogue, art style, romance arcs, and wedding-planning subplot. What’s traditionally referred to as women’s fiction or romance or chick lit (or whatever!) and superhero comics do not have to be and should not be mutually exclusive genres. I resent the tendency to reduce comics, even the more niche label of superhero comics, down to a single self-contained genre. Let go of your reservations and enjoy it for what it is, not what you think a superhero comic should be.

[The Sapphic Nerd · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've always loved team-ups between comic book women (Gotham City Sirens and Birds of Prey are my comic book lifeblood), and this series may be shaping up to one of my favourites. Dinah is starting to gain the respect and trust of the Sirens. When she saves the Sirens from being shot, their reaction is delightful. There's a moment where Dinah hears her friends in her mental dialogue as if they're giving her advice and it shows how secretly fond of the Sirens she's become. However, there's still that tension between Dinah being a known hero who trusts and works with the police, and the Sirens who have only had bad experiences with the police and become wary of Dinah whenever she engages with cops.

We get to see a bit more of Catwoman's relationship with Batman, and it's actually cute!

Also, Ollie not asking Dinah if there was anyone she wanted to invite to her own engagement party is wild. Who does that?

There's a kiss I'm especially enthusiastic about that's adorable.

The Sirens dressed as a trio of witches for Halloween is perfect and I can't get enough of Ivy's costume.

I don't know much about the star signs, but Ivy being a taurus makes soooooo much sense!

[Moonie · Rating 1 out of 5]

I really don't know what i expected going into this knowing how bad the first issue was. I hate how dumbed down Harley is, I hate how shallow the girls are. I feel like this humor is just pure misogyny packaged in a way that will appeal to the "girls and the gays". But the issue is that the girls and the gays already love these characters, they love Ivy's and Harley's relarionship so there is no reason to write them like that. Every page had me furrowing my brows and I seriously cannot enjoy the story even a bit. I am also very dissapointed that DC doesn't let any of the Sirens have normal relationship (which they deserve!!) even in a silly little four issue series. I will finish it, since it's so short but every page just fills me with more dissapointment. I hope they won't try doing any more of this type of comics. The Sirens deserve better - Selina and Bruce deserve better, Pamela and Harley deserve better.

[isabella &#x1050c;՞ ܸ.ˬ.ܸ՞&#x109af; · Rating 1 out of 5]

reading this and then immediately having the next page be an advertisement for tom king’s wonder woman feels like what i would imagine being punched in the face and then kicked mercilessly while i was begging on the floor is like

[Cybernex007 · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love the style and upbeat characterizations here, but even with the guiding dates adorning some of the pages things are jumping around way too much for my taste, on one hand I understand the story structure is a reflection of Dinah’s current struggles to manage her personal life and her engagement with Ollie while keeping her sanity when she is running around solving a string of murders with the sirens…but that doesn’t offset just how chaotic the jumping around is to the point I don’t even realize we have jumped weeks into the future from the last page. But what I’ve already mentioned in regards to Dinah balancing her life is definitely a strength of this book, I love how over the course of this issue she has gone from being weary of the sirens and the criminality and chaos they bring with them to fully embracing them to find they are a point of reassurance and structure in her life that she can enjoy alongside them. But I will say the most unrealistic part of his book is calendar man actually having friends, no way in hell that’s possible LMAO.

Jumping into this issue we find Dinah stressed to oblivion as Dick and Barbara go over wedding dresses with her in the shop, Dick turning into an unrelenting and uncompromising wedding planner in the process, lol. Only for Dinah to quickly rush off as she overheard and realized the other sirens were in the next room over after they paid the shop attendants to take a latte break so they could play around with the dresses and catch her to continue the case. Turns out Dinah has an update for them as she has identified the last victim from the last issue and her birthday was the night she was killed, they have been keep close tabs on calendar man and there has yet to be a murder in August while they had been watching him so they really want to bring the hammer down on them. But then Dinah gets a text as it turns out she had another person to meet with outside of the sirens regarding this case…Detective Renee Montoya of the GCPD! Selina has her sources when it comes to getting real close with batman, and Dinah has hers in getting the GCPD eyes on these cases that are clearly related. But Dinah still keeps a distance out of the public eye the police bring, especially as she runs around with the sirens.

That night the sirens stalked and finally cornered calendar man in an alley, but he was ready for them and before Ivy could get her vines close he had his gun trained on them. They accused him of the murders only for calendar man to be just as shocked, he hasn’t been doing that at all and has proof as he was out of town the time of the first murder when he was first released from Arkham as it was as his birthday month and he always plans a big trip with friends…very unlikely alibi but the sirens realized they hit a dead end. Calendar man desired to make that a true dead end Ashe still took offense to their allegations and wasn’t dropping the gun…fortunately Dinah was still dropping in on him to force him to drop the gun and to bring the sirens with her as whole they have been here…there was another murder. Once again a woman was murdered with a mysterious blood pattern left behind as if a ritual is being performed. The sirens split up and days later we find Catwoman climbing all over her source as she pokes batman for information. The info on the latest victim came back and things aren’t adding up as her birthday was in September but she was killed in August. So the motivations must be different from the specific calendar day. Honestly I love their relationship as the art makes it so clear they are dying for each other’s embrace as batman starts a search for the mysterious rich woman Selina identified the other night in the bar where the victim for July was killed.

It is now well over a month later and we find Dinah on a personal yacht celebrating her engagement with a lot of people she doesn’t know as Dick and Babs wedding ideas float around her head, eventually drowning them out with thoughts of the sirens joking about killing all the rich people here…finally Ollie came over to break up her thoughts and check in with her, lol. Selina is apparently still with Bruce and Harley and Ivy are chilling back at home looking over the evidence. Turns out Harley got a little bored and she knows Ivy doesn’t like her wasting paper so she doodled on the crime scene photos…probably not the craziest thing she has done. But her doodles revealed something interesting when she started playing connect the dots with the stab wounds as when Ivy got a look she identified them as constellations. The murders happening on birthdays has not been the contributing motivator so far, instead it’s all about their star signs. And tbh a book about the sirens going after someone obsessed with star signs is a hilarious concept in itself. As Harley and Ivy are freaking out over their great revelation, they are interrupted by a call from Dinah informing them of a show she has setup on Halloween so they can investigate the venue. A body was already found there and they may have looked already but killers often return to the site of their crimes, the only one not currently invited is Selina because none of them can get a hold of her. Harley decides it’s time to blow up her phone, and that’s when we find that Selina and Bruce have been with each other for literal WEEKS, ahahahaha!

Harley finally broke Selina out of the trance Bruce and entered as they absolutely fawned over each other to snap Selina back to reality. Turns out Bruce identified the mysterious woman a week ago, she’s a therapist and the victim was a patient of hers. And another one of her patients has a birthday and gallery opening tomorrow night…glad they got a hold of Selina when they did. The sirens showed up to scope out the art gallery as they watched the potential victim slip out to talk to a buyer interested in the whole collection…only to burst out and find the mysterious therapist mid murder of the artist. Dinah and Harley were able to stay behind to administer medical aid while Ivy and Selina chased after the cloaked killer. Ivy almost had her with her vines, but then the killer jumped to the other side of an incoming truck, disappearing in the process. But Selina heard her last words before vanishing, it was in Italian and she told them to “stop or die.”

We then jump to the end of the month as all of the sirens dressed up for Halloween and made it to Dinah’s gig. At this point they are just hanging out with each other for the love of it, but suddenly they see a cloaked figure through the crowd as each member suddenly sees her watching them and slipping away, only to finally see her with a girl on her arm. She is going to kill again, even though they disrupted the ritual it’s still occurring. The sirens desperately pushed through the crowd as they lost her, until Dinah realized the current sign for this month is Scorpio and nearby is the winery known as Scorpion Cellars with the constellation adorning the door: the sirens busted inside to find the crazed therapist Portia Celestine, who they are calling Horoscope, with a potential victim at knife point as she has been waiting for them. She doesn’t want to talk she just wants to know one thing…what are their star signs? Each if them just then off but then Selina lies about hers and the killer immediately knows and begins to drive the knife deeper into the victim’s throat, Selina stops her and admits that she is actually a Scorpio and that if she is going to take anyone she should take her instead. This seems to click with Horoscope as she throws the potential victim away and escapes in a trap door. Dinah immediately calls over the radio for Detective Montoya and the other GCPD officers nearby to protect the girl and to start combing the underground. But with the cops involved the sirens can no longer be, no matter how badly they want to jump die there and chase her down themselves. The group is quite betrayed Dinah would go to the cops behind their backs, but they take off before any could show up and Dinah leaves the potential victim in the safe hands of Renee. The issue comes to an end as we check in on Horoscope on her penthouse observatory as she wipes away another star sign from the ritual on her window as it seems she is adjustable and has been marching up slight doodles of the sirens (Catwoman and Harley so far now that she knows their signs) to somehow include them in the ritual. I’d like to see her try.

[Misse Jones · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dinah, Dinah, Dinah!

This issue was up and down for me. There were parts that were really good, for example:

I was glad to see Selina rendezvousing with the Dark Knight. Hey, we all deserve some good lovin' here and there.

There's this budding thing that's happening between Harley and Ivy and I like it a lot!

The men (Bruce & Ollie) predominately played the background and the ladies stayed out front and center.

I was happy to learn who the killer is!

But as overwhelmed as Dinah is with this wedding and trying to work not only with the Sirens but also with GPD, I was TIED (yes I said "tied", no 'r') by the end of the issue. I'll be glad when the wedding comes and goes. Lol not to mention, she needs to find her loyalties and quickly. She can't do it all by herself, obviously. She needs the Sirens.

[Pickletape · Rating 3 out of 5]

Why is Harley drawing on the pics of dead women and shit like she’s a fucking child?? She’s a grown woman with a PhD !! Also I kinda find it hard to believe that Catwoman was too distracted fucking Batman for a month to make sure Ivy and Harley got the evidence that found together. Could she really not have tried harder to make sure the Sirens got her texts?? Especially when the rest of the Sirens said Catwoman was IGNORING their own texts and calls?? They claim to care about the women of Gotham but the writing here makes it feel like they’re not taking this as seriously as they should be.

[angelinabvby ۶۟ৎ {rest in peace estie} · Rating 4 out of 5]

the way catwoman lied abt her sign lmfao



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[RSC_Collecting · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a fun one! I'm really enjoying this series. I've always been a huge fan of the Sirens and Tini Howard's take on them is so cute. They all have so much personality. And this new villain looks like fun. I'm ready for more! Good stuff.

[Craig Schorling · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fiesty and fun. The banter between the ladies is well written and the mystery is enough to keep me invested in that side of the story too. We get a reveal but I feel like there is more to the story than that. Very fun art that perfectly matches the story.

[ren · Rating 4 out of 5]

I LOVE THIS COMIC SO MUCH I LOVE SAPPHIC FRIENDSHIPS (and their token straight) I LOVE WOMEN LOVING WOMEN AND SUPPORTING THEM AND HATING MEN WITH THEM


begging this doesn't let me down like poison ivy (2022) currently is

[Abbie · Rating 2 out of 5]

2,75
I have incredibly complex feelings about this book. This reads much more like a trashy (but free) webcomic than a dc dark label book.

[rafaela (taylor's version) · Rating 4 out of 5]

3, 5

[Annemarie · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's silly, it's fun. It's also a bit over the top sometimes for me. The art is absolutely stunning. I'm really enjoying reading about Dinah a lot. The villain/ case is very interesting as well.

[Lizzy DeMarco · Rating 5 out of 5]

This second issue is even stronger than the first! Loved it.

[Taylor Lee · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.75/5⭐️

Hehe so many steamy scenes

[Madeesonxoxo · Rating 5 out of 5]

“The stars are predictable…but women are fickle.”

the sirens natural agyeo is so refreshing ‼️

[Kristall Marie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Yep, still loving this series! That ending stinger especially! And it was so fun to see Dick and Babs, too!

[Jesse · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful art, great characterization, the plot got interesting by the end. I do so love this book.

[Lauren · Rating 2 out of 5]

The art is so fun and I love these characters but why is the writing so bad 😭