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The comic features four different scents, which up until now had been kept secret — but in a new interview with MTV, they were revealed as leather, suntan lotion, pizza and a mystery smell that…
…ah, heck. It’s marijuana.
Yeah, they don’t quite say that in the MTV interview, but it seems that drug-sniffing dogs may have been the reason that it had to be changed to “fresh-cut lawn clippings” in the international version.
(Y’know…grass.)
“Here is what I’m wondering, how often do the Grateful Dead play internationally?” Conner teased when MTV was asking them about the last scent. “That’s what I’m wondering.”
“This is definitely a book that you will get you going back to in your box of comics,” Palmiotti joked, “and you might be taking it out now and again to smell it again. You might want to bag it, you know?”
“…To keep the smell contained,” Conner continued, “and then when you do, bring your thing of Oreos.”
“We got a limited list,” Palmiotti said, describing the process of vetting the scents for the book. “They sent us these cards that had the scent on it. We wanted to make sure they matched, so we narrowed it down to a bunch. Then when we started actually plotting out the story, it came down to what would work with the book, and what we could get away with as usual with Harley Quinn.”
…Quite a bit, it appears.
Harley Quinn Annual #1 hits the stores on October 29.
