Gotham Academy #3

[skemono]

When last we left our somewhat amnesiac heroine, she snuck out of the dorms in the middle of the night, damaged a rare, antique library book, and set fire to a shrine in the cemetery.


This issue starts with Olive in detention. Which... might be a little light as punishment goes. A classmate, Colton, is there as well because in the first issue Olive exposed him trying to sell firecrackers.

After she gets out she runs into her roommate, Lucy (actually, upon reread, she appears to run out of detention because she hears Lucy shrieking. I wonder if she ever finishes that detention.)





Kyle comes up and tells Olive they have to talk.




That night, Maps ambushes Olive for a stakeout on the roof (of their dorm, I presume), hoping to spot the North Hall ghost.



Olive & Maps (and Pomeline, who just shows up) spot a pair of glowing eyes in a North Hall window, so they decide they have to break in. Pomeline sends Maps to enlist the aid of Colton in breaking in. I'm sharing many of these images just because Maps is adorable.





Olive lurks around the front door as some memories come back.



She wants to leave, but the others drag her to a large hole in the floor. Pomeline drops a phone down there, and Olive reaches down to try and get it, when...



Dun dun dun!


Writers: Becky Cloonan & Brenden Fletcher
Artist: Karl Kerschl

Comments

[quatoria]

What the heck is with the skirts? Why decide that the schoolgirls are going to wear plaid skirts, if neither your penciller nor your colorist is capable of producing them for you? That's... gosh, that's just *awful*. I continue to be really interested in the story and characters of this, don't get me wrong - but that digital effect they're using for plaid that doesn't move or change with the angle of the skirt, with the motion of the fabric, with the bumps and waves in the material - it's just so offputtingly, distractingly terrible.

[lissa_quon]

maybe they thought they were going to do a warp mesh (I think that's teh term) and got pressed for time?

[leoboiko]

…I've always loved this effect… (._.)

[quatoria]

oh gosh, I'm sorry - I apologize if I made you feel bad for liking it, it's just something that really irks me, and it was a late night vent.

[leoboiko]

No, I was just joking, no hard feelings :) They used this effect a lot in the Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei anime, and I thought it looked cool.

[big_daddy_d]

Really liking this series. Can actually see it as a show.

[sagrada]

That's actually what puts me off about the book, the fact that it looks like an adaption of a real cartoon show, with everything really flat and simplified for animation translated into a static comic book.

[alschroeder3]

I dunno...I kind of like it for that very reason, gives a very different view of Gotham. The more differentiated artistic takes on the Bat-world, the better, I say.