8/15/2023 0 Comments Olive silverlock![]() ![]() And Maps just came through so easily, mostly because of her personality. He’ll write something and I will get this idea of the character, not just visually, but as a whole person. But Brenden and I have a really intuitive process. It’s the first time I’ve ever worked with Becky. This is the first time we all worked as a group together. Even if she wasn’t going to visually look like that, her family had Japanese ancestry with a last name like Mizoguchi. Right from the beginning, Maps was Japanese-American. When in the process did you start talking about what the characters would look like?īrenden Fletcher: We are talking about more than what they look like. Not just the beautiful art, but what they look like. One of the main reasons I love Gotham Academy is the cast. It is published by DC Comics and written by Becky Cloonan and Brenden Fletcher, with art by Karl Kerschl Gotham Academy and its diverse cast are beloved by fans and critics alike, showcasing that comic books need not look a certain way. It features a young cast headed by Olive Silverlock and Mia ‘Maps’ Mizoguchi. Gotham Academy is a comic book set in a prestigious boarding school in the City of Gotham. Karl Kerschl, Becky Cloonan and Brenden Fletcher Photo Courtesy Robert Tutton, Paste Magazine You can find her on Twitter as here for the introduction to the Comics, Human Rights and Representation Week. The plot is thickening, and I'm more interested than ever to find out what it's building to.Maria Werdine Norris is a final year PhD candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research is on the British Counterterrorism strategy and legislation, with a focus on nationalism, security and human rights. He's doing dazzling, highly stylized work that's a joy to take in. There's nothing to fault with Karl Kerschl's art, however. It's a needed format for a comic with little to no real action, yet occasionally the story skips a few beats that are probably meant to be inferred but turn out confusing instead. As far as we know, Pomeline's antimosity for Olive is "just because," but maybe there's more to it.Ĭloonan and Fletcher keep the drama darting from one location to the next, rarely lingering on one scene for more than a few pages. But the most striking character of issue #2 is Pomeline, an antagonistic "mean girl" bully type who seems to find a great deal of pleasure in hating Olive. Relationships take the forefront in this one, further solidifying the partners-in-crime vibe between Olive and Maps (Maps gets several laugh-out-loud lines in this one), as well as teasing Olive's inevitable confrontation with ex-boyfriend Kyle, and finding an unexpectedly sympathetic ear for Olive in the form of one of her teachers. And it's very possible that this one ties all of the others together. ![]() What happened to Olive over summer break that changed her and caused her to withdraw from the world? Why does she hate Batman? What's her connection to Millie Jane Cobblepot, a distant ancestor of the Penguin? Why does one male student's eyes glow red? Is the Academy really haunted? What's the creature watching the students through the cracks in the walls?īy the splash page that ends issue #2, there's a huge new mystery about Olive's identity to add to the list. ![]()
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