Gotham Academy #5

[skemono]

When last we left our investigative heroine, she went into some hidden tunnels and found herself facing Killer Croc.




Croc flees, afraid that if anyone else knows he's there they'll blab and he'll be sent back to Arkham. Olive and Maps give chase, but he's blocked their path with debris. Fortunately, Maps has that nickname for a reason and can figure out where the tunnel he ran through leads. So they'll need to get help again to break in.



They persuade a student to distract the headmaster so they can sneak out of a school dance to break into the headmaster's office to retrieve some supplies to clear the path to follow Croc (man, no wonder Maps thinks the world operates like her RPGs). But that might prove a mite difficult...




As they cross the grounds, Olive sees Batman against the sky and shoots him with the crossbow. Only, it wasn't Batman.



He tells Olive how he met her last summer:



And for some reason Professor MacPherson asked him to keep an eye on Olive after this. Seems that's more your responsibility, professor, but what do I know?

Anyway. They get to Croc, so we can have a B:tAS joke:



Cue Batman.


Writers: Becky Cloonan & Brenden Fletcher
Artist: Karl Kerschl

Comments

[tigerkaya]

I'm impressed by some of the depictions of croc in the New 52. Between being Roy's intervention in drugs, to being this king of the morlocks and now being this silent guardian its nice to see a bit more humane Waylon Jones over "I'm a cannibal fear me!"

[silverhammerman]

Yeah, I've said so elsewhere, but Killer Croc works surprisingly well as a sympathetic character, and turning him into a cannibalistic monster is basically the least interesting thing that can be done with him.