Poison Ivy Vol. 4: Origin of Species

The GLAAD Media Award-winning team of G. Willow Wilson and Marcio Takara tell a story decades in the making—the origin of Pamela Isley!

Long has her tale been told by others, but witness for the first time, in intimate detail, the one true secret origin of Poison Ivy as revealed by the viridescent villainess herself—from her formative days in higher learning with Dr. Jason Woodrue and the Gardener to her first encounter with Batman! 

The acclaimed team of writer G. Willow Wilson and artist Marcio Takara reunite to tell this heartbreaking and historic origin story as only they can.

As the story returns to the present day, the end times may be near for Pamela Isley. The rotten seeds she has sown across America have come home to roost, and her greatest enemy has torn himself from her flesh. With Ivy on death’s door, is there any hope for the rest of the world… or has the reign of the Floronic Man begun?

Collects Poison Ivy #19-24.

G. Willow Wilson is the author of the acclaimed novel THE BIRD KING (2019), co-creator of the Hugo and American Book Award-winning series MS MARVEL (2013-2018), and has written for some of the world's best-known superhero comic book series, including THE X-MEN, SUPERMAN and WONDER WOMAN. Her first novel, ALIF THE UNSEEN, won the 2013 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, was a finalist for the Center For Fiction's First Novel Prize, and was long-listed for the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction. In 2015, she won the Graphic Literature Innovator Prize at the PEN America Literary Awards. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages. She lives in Seattle.