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Spoilers before forFuture State : Gotham # 4 !
Mother Panic , Gotham City ’s forgotten vigilante , just made her exulting income tax return , and is huntingHarley Quinn . InFuture State : Gotham # 4,on sale now in print and digital , a Modern Mother Panic , call Hunter Panic , has arrived in Gotham and is hellbent on taking down both Harley Quinn and Punchline .
The original Mother Panic was created bywriter Gerard Wayand illustrator Tommy Lee Edwards for Way’sYoung Animalimprint ; author Jody Houser was brought in to write the character ’s monthly adventures and fleshed Mother Panic out further . The original Mother Panic was Violet Paige , a young , disaffected debutante who hid a dark secret : as a young girl , she killed her father and made it count like an stroke . When her mother was attached to a psychiatric hospital , she was send to a peculiar boarding schooling , where she was experiment upon , given cybernetic implants , and train to be a grampus . She infract gratuitous , and after vote down the shoal ’s head , shereturned to Gotham Cityand embarked on a career as Mother Panic . Her solo Christian Bible was short - lived , and the character has since slipped into obscureness , but now a new interpretation has get in , ready to take down two of Gotham ’s most wanted . The volume is written by Dennis Culver , with art by Nikola Cizmesija , and letter by Troy Peteri .
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lector meet the novel Mother Panic in the book ’s opening pages and chop-chop learn this isnotthe original Mother Panic . Her name is Jodi Edwards , and she found Mother Panic ’s sometime suit . Jodi is a bounty Orion and is front to collect on the one out for Punchline . Donning the suit , and scream herself “ Hunter Panic , ” she sets out to land Punchline in . Shecrosses paths with Harley Quinn , also on Punchline ’s trail , and decides to roll up the bounty on her too . Hunter Panic gives the two chase , and when Punchline tries to give them the slip , Harley saves Hunter ’s liveliness . But this is not enough to deter Hunter , who go forward her pursuit . Harley catches up with Punchline , tap her out and leaving her for Hunter Panic to take in .
The outlet does not bring up what chance to the original Mother Panic , or how Jodi found the outfit . This may be let out in previous issues , but it is deserving mention that this is not the first time DC has provide a futuristic glimpse of the character . After the conclusion of the originalMother Panicseries , a follow - up mini - serial , titledMother Panic : Gotham A.D.was free , that get wind the character cast into a next Gotham where vigilantes were outlawed .
A similar future was revealed duringFuture State , but the specific are unlike . Will there be an attempt to conciliate the two ? What materialise to Violet Paige ? Is she still out there?Mother Panicis Gotham City ’s forgotten vigilante , but now the persona has a second shot , and she ’s trying to bring inHarley Quinn .
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