9/17/2023 0 Comments Olive silverlock![]() It is gritty and stylist and noire and at its core, a detective story. With its cast of characters, it is more suited for something aligned with Archie Comics than Batman but that is where you make your mistake. Gotham Academy is a book that you would not think to take seriously, but demands to be taken seriously. ![]() The detective club figures out who is leading the witch club and stop him but not before one of their own is expelled and an even greater mystery is unearthed. The detective club discovers that the witch club has taken her and that they are being controlled by circuit boards in their hats. The witch club begins to pull dangerous pranks on the other students and soon Olive’s good friend Maps goes missing. The detective club soon finds itself battling against a new group who call themselves the witch club. Soon the detective club returns from break and Olive quickly finds out that there is much more to Amy than meets the eye. The new girl is Amy and soon the duo find themselves up to no good as Amy convinces Olive to vandalize the Chapel. As the school empties out, even her little detective club leaves, a new student arrives to help keep Olive company. If there was a comic that was begging to be made into a television series, this one is it!įor Gotham Academy student Olive Silverlock, the winter holiday are the worst. The plus is this new series starts fresh and you don’t have to read and Annual-I would recommend you do anyway.Gotham Academy: Second Semester, Vol.1: Welcome Back by Brendan Fletcher is a terrific and creative series that has one foot in the Batman Universe and for the rest, stands quite comfortably on its own. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing but being a new reader to this series I was hoping for some background conclusions. There wasn’t a big connection to the prequel released a few weeks ago. The dialogue is all over the page which makes it difficult to follow the pattern of the story. There are a few pages that the scenes get confused. Gotham has always had a certain style in most people’s minds and Archer and Hope are really portraying it well. The details are great but I think the architecture really jumps off the page. The scenes are dark and ominous which definitely makes the “I’m alone at a creepy school” feeling much more believable. ![]() The visuals stay true to the Gotham Academy Annual-prequel issue. There are a few mentions of Arkham which should cause for interesting series growth. Overall, however, this made me realize that Fletcher, Cloonan and Kerschl write teenager girls very well. I would have decked her her personality is pushy and over the top intrusive. I actually found myself getting upset with her in a few scenes. The writers briefly give Olive a mentor figure, but she is taken out of the story pretty quickly - almost certainly to give our new character free reign on the campus. The dialogue actually starts out in depressing fashion, displaying Olive’s sadness in great detail. Gotham Academy: Second Semester’s first issue is a simple and well put together story of our lonely protagonist Olive wanting to find some entertainment while her friends are away for the holiday. Listen to the latest episode of our weekly comics podcast! ![]()
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