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Poison Ivy is ready to seize the spotlight. As part of DC Comics' Pride month announcements last week, the storied superhero publisher unveiled a new six-issue series centered on the botanical Batman adversary from writer G. Willow Wilson and artist Marcio Takara — and we've got an exclusive first look.

Originally created by Robert Kanigher and Sheldon Moldoff in 1966 as another addition to Batman's extensive gallery of exotic femmes fatales, Poison Ivy has really come into her own over the years. It helps that she especially pops in screen adaptations: Wilson recalls first encountering the character via Uma Thurman's campy performance in Batman & Robin, while other '90s kids probably met Poison Ivy via Batman: The Animated Series. Her unique aesthetic, a fusion of feminine sexuality with an abundance of non-human greenery, distinguishes her visually, while the questions she poses about mankind's relationship to nature have only become more compelling over time.