Poison Ivy's New Power Is a Healing Factor
Poison Ivy is entering a period of rebirth in Poison Ivy #24, with the reveal of her ultra-powerful version of a Healing Factor. Poison Ivy's brand-new power rockets her up the scale of DC's most powerful characters. In Poison Ivy #24, Harley Quinn clutches a seemingly-dead Poison Ivy, and the familiar repeated phrases from Solomon Grundy prompt Poison Ivy's friends to think she could return to life: "Died on a Saturday. Buried on a Sunday... born on a Monday."
Harley hands Poison Ivy over to Solomon Grundy, and the preview ends with Solomon Grundy "planting" Poison Ivy in Slaughter Swamp: his home and the place where he, like much plant life, cyclically dies and is reborn, again and again. Harley Quinn and Solomon Grundy seem to believe that Poison Ivy, under these conditions, will be able to return from the dead, giving Poison Ivy one of the strongest (and strangest) Healing Factors in the DC Universe.
Poison Ivy's New Healing Factor is a Great Take on Her Powers
At the end of Poison Ivy #23, Poison Ivy goes down in a literal blaze of glory, sacrificing herself in order to burn up her enemy and abuser, the Floronic Man. Throughout this series—Poison Ivy's first solo ongoing series in the character's long history—Pamela Isley's powers have been growing exponentially and often out of her control. These powers include the ability to create a strange, zombie-like fungus that has reanimated a number of her casualties across the country. But despite this growth in her power, nothing so far has suggested that Poison Ivy has the ability to come back from the dead.
Rebirth through a literal planting in a magical swamp—especially with the help of Harley Quinn and Solomon Grundy, who have played a large role in this latest arc—seems like the natural next step for Poison Ivy's evolution. If Poison Ivy does return to life using her own powers and connection to plant life, she will officially have one of the strongest healing factors in the DCU, especially if it turns out to be an innate and reusable power.
Does This New Power Make Poison Ivy Immortal?
In fact, if Poison Ivy can manage to explore the full potential of such a unique healing factor, this new power could render Pamela Isley functionally immortal. Like a perennial plant, she will bloom time and time again. After two full years of the award-winning Poison Ivy series, G. Willow Wilson and her artistic collaborators continue to reinvent Poison Ivy, achieving new heights for the character. With a power like this in her arsenal, there's no telling what Poison Ivy will do next—if she actually does manage to return from the dead.
Poison Ivy #24 is available July 3rd from Dc Comics.
Who is Poison Ivy?
Inducted into Batman's rogues gallery in the 1960s, Poison Ivy is a metahuman who terrorizes Gotham with her poisonous touch and control over plant life. A misanthropic eco-terrorist, Poison Ivy is also depicted as an anti-hero, using her powers in attempts to regrow the environment in the wake of pollution and deforestation. Together with her lover Harley Quinn, the two are always ready to wreak havoc in Gotham.
