Vaughan’s Runaways will be just as pumped about this one.” (Source: Booklist, vol 112, number 12)
With plenty of intrigue and personable characters, this is the perfect vehicle to wrangle teen readers into the Batman universe. Kerschl’s warm, manga-inflected artwork employs eye-catching layouts, fantastic panel design, and a rich, inviting color palette unlike the shadowy, grim color schemes many Batman fans are used to. Cloonan and Fletcher excel at giving their characters authentically youthful voices and behaviors, and they cleverly and compellingly unspool Olive’s story at a tantalizing pace. Meanwhile, Olive struggles to piece together her summer, her memories of which are distressingly blank, and find out what happened to her mother. “Who knew Gotham had its own, Hogwarts-like boarding school, complete with cavernous halls, buttressed ceilings, and a haunted wing? This new series, focusing on teen Gothamites, follows Olive Silverlock and her friend, Maps, as they poke around the creepy building investigating the mysterious ghost, a secret society, and other strange goings-on at their school. This is confirmed later in the sequel series, Gotham Academy: Second Semester.Ģ015 Autostraddle Comic and Sequential Art Awards Shortlist - Favorite All-Ages ComicĢ015 Autostraddle Comic and Sequential Art Awards Shortlist - Favorite Big Two Book (DC or Marvel) One of the main boys is implied to have a crush on another boy starting in issue #6.
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