When even Alfred's like maybe sit this one out, Bats really should listen.

Hmm, we've seen two from Joker's Asylum II, but we're just now finding one of the first batch: from 2008, Joker's Asylum: Poison Ivy #1, "Deflowered!" Written by JT Krul, art by Guillem March.

The Joker presents the story--leading with a couple of halfway decent zingers, for a change--and while he usually wouldn't be a reliable source, Ivy also narrates a chunk of this. She murders a couple real estate developers, fairly brutally, and Batman knows she's got a third in her sights, so he's forced to tail the sleazebag for a week, watching him pick up prostitutes. Alfred suggests, the world wouldn't shed a lot of tears over the loss of that particular life; but Bats isn't doing this to save him but to stop Ivy.

For her part, Ivy recaps some of her origin that we've seen before, except we see her (a lot of her!) right after she first got her powers from Dr. Woodrue: she could hear the plants, and in this case, she can hear them screaming, as a forest is cleared out...for a real estate development. (A bulldozer driver berates the "crazy tree hugger" to get out of the way; making him the most dedicated deforester on the face of the planet if he could just brush Ivy off!)

A fun one-off: I haven't read the more modern series yet, although I think DC's pretty much given up on Ivy as a villain. The environment kinda needs her to go as hard as she can, doesn't it? Anyway, looks like there were 10 Joker's Asylum books total, and I think I have four, tops. Maybe the other one will turn up later.