Gotham Academy Second Semester #4 Review

Writer: Brenden Fletcher / Artist: Jon Lam / DC Comics Gotham Academy Second Semester #4 is a standalone that takes place before the semester began, so basically a one-shot flashback from before everything else we’ve read from the Academy recently. You might’ve been less than enthused at the prospect, you might’ve even rolled your eyes, but this issue is actually a jam. It starts with low-carb Sabretooth staring out the glass panes of his office window with Dido singing about how her tea’s gone cold and she’s wonderin’ why, and right off the bat you can see the gloss in dude’s eyes and tell this is about to be lowkey emotional by the end. In the meantime, the Detective Club comes up on this carnival, right? And everybody all skeptical ‘cause they done seent American Horror Story, like, we know how this ends, except for Olive because cupid done shot her full of stupid when she met this boy tryna get them to the big show. Pomeline basically like, “nah family, we cool,” but everybody else got their own intentions messing with their logic ‘cause Yung Mako from Legend of Korra is too cute for Olive to pass up and Colton would face the devil himself if it mean picking the lock to Kyle’s heart. They’re all in the midst of being seduced by the Carnival leader who looks like a cross between Jafar and the Planter’s Peanut, till low-carb Sabretooth comes through and rebukes Satan in the name of Jesus. Colton and Pom in the back ready to yell “Worldstar” [divider type=”space_thin”] They …