![]() However, the plotting also pulls a lot together, making sense of what might have seemed gratuitous earlier in the run, such as Damien Wayne’s brief appearance, although he borders on uncharacteristically friendly.Īs previously, Adam Archer supplies the lively figures over atmospheric painted backgrounds supplied by Msassyk, and they seem to be working far more closely than previously, the contrast between paint and ink with flat colour provideing a very distinctive look. In some ways it moves Gotham Academy away from what it’s been, and nearer a traditional superhero adventure. The current generation of Gotham’s oldest families include a couple of the city’s prominent villains and Batman, and throwing in three other characters from Batman’s villainous roll call makes this the Gotham Academy collection most populated by familiar faces. ![]() That revelation has caused Olive to be possessed by an ancestor out for revenge and awakening Olive’s abilities to enact that. There’s been a connection between Gotham’s oldest families dating back four centuries, and it encompasses some very unpleasant secrets, now revealed. She’s had a troubled past, but what she and the readers didn’t know until the previous Welcome Back is exactly how troubled. It also includes young girls on adventures, which is also a plus.Four collections previously, Gotham Academy began with the introduction of Olive Silverlock to the most prestigious school in Gotham. Between Cloonan and Fletcher’s writing and Kerschl’s adorable art that makes me want to see this animated, I’m already enrolling myself for a semester or two.įinal Thoughts: Dark, yet fun, Gotham Academy is a fun intro to a side of Gotham City that we may not usually get to see. It was a bit frustrating wanting to know more about it, but I guess that’s what a good first issue is supposed to do. Introducing us to Olive and Maps along with the atmosphere of Gotham Academy as well as the mystery of what happened to Olive over the summer. Her enthusiasm is a perfect foil to Olive’s introspectiveness. Not to mention that Maps is the cutest nerd this side of Burnside. While Olive might be kind of broody, she knows the best kind of trouble to get it. Unlike a lot of her heroes though, Olive and Maps are definite troublemakers in the vein of the girls from Lumberjanes. I think Andy Khouri of Comics Alliance put it best when he described the series as a mix of Batman, Harry Potter, Lumberjanes, and his “vague understanding of some type of manga.” Cloonan’s writing style is dark and immersive, leaving a lot of mystery and shadows to explore. Olive is there on scholarship, but something over the summer made her go from “normal” in her freshman year to distant in the beginning of her sophomore. ![]() Gotham Academy opens on a dark and stormy day, with brooding Olive Silverlock reluctantly showing her best friend Maps Mizoguchi around the campus of the elite Gotham City boarding school. In that it might just become my new favorite thing out of DC Comics. Marvel, Gotham Academy might just be the response to Lumberjanes. If Batgirl from #35 on is meant to be DC’s response to Ms. ![]() Authors: Becky Cloonan and Brenden FletcherĪrtists: Karl Kerschl, Geyser, Dave McCaig ![]()
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