plan, had come closer to killing him than he ever did. The Joker attacks him in a fit of rage, but Batman sends him plunging into a burning smokestack with a punch. Back in Arkham Asylum, Harley Quinn renounces the Joker forever, wanting nothing more than to heal and then leave Arkham for good. Lying on her bed a moment later, however, Harley finds flowers sent by her clownish beau with a "get well soon" card and falls in love with him all over again. Reprints Mad Love was reprinted as a graphic novella in 1998 (), and in 2009 the story was collected – alongside a number of others by Bruce Timm and Paul Dini – in a hardcover collection titled Batman: Mad Love and Other Stories (). Critical reaction IGN Comics said that "Mad Love is everything a comic book should be" and called it "one Batman book everyone should read". Awards 1994: Won "Best Single Issue" Eisner Award Bruce Timm was nominated for "Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller-Inker Team" Eisner Award, for his work on Mad Love In other media An animated adaptation of the issue, nearly identical in script and design to the original comic, originally aired on the WB Network on January 16, 1999, as an episode of The New Batman Adventures. The script was written by Paul Dini, and the episode was directed by Butch Lukic. Perhaps the only contrasts to the comic over the episode were the revamped character designs and the removal of minor scenes for pacing and time concerns. In 2008, Warner Premiere Digital adapted Mad Love as part of DC Comics' motion comics line, available for download through digital outlets such as iTunes and Xbox Live. Subscribers can download each chapter separately from Xbox Live, but iTunes groups the seven chapters into three downloads (Chapters 1 & 2, Chapters 3, 4, & 5, and Chapters 6 & 7). Batman: Arkham Asylum, also penned by Dini, lifts much of its dialogue from Harley Quinn's patient interviews from Mad Love. Batman: Arkham Origins, the prequel to Asylum, also uses much of Mad Loves plot in retelling Harley Quinn's first encounter with the Joker. Paul Dini and Pat Cadigan wrote a novel adaptation of the former's original story under the title Harley Quinn: Mad Love, released on November 13, 2018, by Titan Books. Notes References . . Works based on Batman: The Animated Series