Calamity launches from the apparent death of Olive's mother, complete with funeral and casket, though we last saw Sybil "Calamity" Silverlock venturing out into the cold, alive, at the end of Arkham Manor. There's good inter-character drama in the werewolf story, but obviously the werewolf is the too-angry coach it's for these reasons that the genuine surprises in the book's end are so much more welcome.Īs well, I had trouble at times getting in to the story because I wasn't sure what we were supposed to understand as true, false, or undetermined. Similarly the "DC You" preview at the front of the book spoils that oddball student Katherine Karlo is Clayface, so I felt impatient there too for the characters to catch up. I don't turn up my nose at a single issue with guest art spotlighting Maps and with a team up with Damian "Robin" Wayne, but that the characters are forced to hold hands because of a magic quill pen came off too cutesy for my tastes. The end of the book is buffeted however by a Red Robin appearance (drawn well by Karl Kerschl and written nicely without his trademark New 52 snobbishness) and Kyle's truly surprising kidnapping, lending excitement to the finale. This extends to Olive's struggle to understand her mother's super-villainous nature, though at the point in which the reader understands pretty clearly that it is not Olive's mother haunting the characters, neither in person nor as an apparition, I felt the story dragged a bit while we waited for the characters to catch up. I find Academy's breakout character Maps Mizoguchi less amusing than interesting, and I'm sooner invested in the CW-style rivalry between tennis champ Kyle Mizoguchi and brooding teen Man-Bat Tristan Grey (because of course that's his name) over the heart of Olive Silverlock. Equally, however, there's a darn good Bat-family cameo late in this volume, and it's hard to argue with Gotham Academy being pulled closer in to the Batman titles' orbit.Ī Nerdist review recognizes Gotham Academy's dual roots in both Harry Potter and CW television, and Calamity was strongest for me when it skewed into the CW territory.
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Calamity is entertaining as Gotham Academy goes, and likely more subtly complex than most other books on the stands.Īt the same time - though I grant I may not be Gotham Academy's wholly intended audience - I thought the "monster of the week" format gave too much license for stories that were silly rather than mysterious or scary, and there's an occasional leap of logic here (mostly by dint of events in other books) that took me out of the story.
2: Calamity likely better reflects this series's actual status quo than the first volume's six-issue cast- and scene-setting.
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Each turn of the page pulling you further into the book’s beautifully imaginative world.With a series of connected but mostly standalone one-and-two issue stories, Becky Cloonan and Brendan Fletcher's Gotham Academy Vol. “Slick, charming, and, dare we say it, fun. “As it turns out, it’s spooky, weird and like nothing DC Comics has ever released before.” Did you hear the rumor about the ghost in the North Hall?! It’s got a spooky campus, oddball teachers, and rich benefactors always dropping by…like that weirdo Bruce Wayne.īut nothing is as strange as the students! Like, what’s up with Olive Silverlock? Is she crazy or what? Where did she go last summer? And what’s the deal with her creepy mom? And how come that freshman Maps is always following her around? And is she still going out with Kyle? P.S. Gotham City’s most prestigious prep school is a very strange place. I’m incredibly proud of this series and grateful for the rare opportunity we had to work together as friends.
Becky Cloonan, Brenden Fletcher and I co-created Olive, Maps and the rest of the gang as a fun, all-ages offering from DC Comics. In 2014 I had the chance to develop a brand new series from the ground up.
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