Gotham Academy #8 Review

The gawd trio’s back, son! Only this issue of Gotham by Midnight Academy is mad dark, fam. Almost thought I was reading the wrong comic. This shit gloomier than Bruce Wayne on Take Your Parents to School Day. This shit more depressing than tears of a clown. Mark Cuban is slouched in a chair drinking expensive whiskey right now, and someone just came up and said “it’s okay, DeAndre Jordan is a jerk,” and Cuban said “It’s not that” as he handed them issue #8 of Gotham Academy. “It’s… Olive.” [divider type=”space_thin”] Issue #8 is driven by the sibling duo of Kyle and Maps, which is something we’ve only seen glimpses of in the past. Their’s is a fun dynamic as they work together on two different, yet intersecting, priorities. Smack dab in the middle is our girl Olive, the protagonist of Ice and Fire, who can inexplicably set a room ablaze while managing to give Kyle the coldest of shoulders. Of course, we’ve all been there, and that only makes you want the other person even more. I kept thinking how Kyle needed a close friend to give him some objective guidance but all I could think of was Uncle Denzel coming over and talking about things completely unrelated.

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So Kyle’s on his own, faced with Olive, Maps, and in an unexpected move, Tristan. Jealousy ain’t a good look on anyone, but it’s fun to read how others respond with it because, like I said, who …