Gotham Academy #15 Review

Writers: Brenden Fletcher, Zac Gorman, Eduardo Medieros / Artists: Adam Archer, Zac Gorman, Rafael Albuquerque / DC Comics Compilation album! Gotham Academy is in its 4-issue “Yearbook” arc, telling a series of short adventures that we missed from the Pizza Club’s schoolyear. Several writers and artists hop on the track to share mini stories and varying styles for our now-familiar characters, but can the “Yearbook” sequel be the comic equivalent of Soundbombing II (the greatest hip hop compilation album of all time – fight me)? Well, suffice it to say that Gotham Academy “Yearbook” plays its position by being quick-hitting, fun stories that make the boarding school’s campus an even more developed and engaging setting.

Like Westeros in Game of Thrones or the playground in Recess, the campus of Gotham Academy is becoming a character in itself – a place with enough familiarity and depth that it becomes as real as the characters who live in it. It says a lot about the series that readers are not only willing to read super short stories from around the campus grounds, but we actually enjoy them almost like casual time spent with its characters. Everybody wanted to have a clique like this in high school, and Gotham Academy makes you feel like you are. In issue #15 the best story came from Serpents & Secrets, where Olive and Maps went from rolling dice in a role-playing board game, to actually being in the game Jumanji-style or, even better, the Dungeons and Dragons episode of …