Advance Review – Gotham Academy #6

This is an advanced review as the comic will be available on Wednesday, March 25th. Some minor spoilers below. writers: Becky Cloonan & Brenden Fletcher / artist: Karl Kerschl / DC Comics The head fake! Maps gives Olive a crossbow in issue #5, like when it’s about to go down in the movies and somebody slides the burner to the tentative unarmed hero. But nah, this is Olive Silverlock we talkin’ here, ain’t no passivity to be found. She looks up and sees that familiar figure in the night sky, the Dark Knight shrouded in shadows and swooping away overhead, and Olive pulls a crossbow on – wait, I need caps lock – OLIVE PULLS THE TOAST AND FIRES A ROUND AT BATMAN HIMSELF. Yo, her name ain’t Olive anymore, she goes by O-Dog now. Somebody braid this girl’s hair, O-Dog officially has no chill. You ain’t gasp like that since Tyrion shot Tywin on the privy. But wait, it wasn’t Batman? It was really Tristan, suffering from the Langstrom Virus, leaving him transformed and looking like one of Goliath’s missing rookery brothers from Gargoyles? He was who saved Olive from the fire back in issue #3? An amazing fake, and it answers one of our long lingering questions about Tristan and his glowing red eyes. It was a great stunt, although as readers we all had our hearts set on seeing Batman introduced in the series. I mean, it’s okay. Really, I’m not disappointed. I understand you have to… what? Keep reading?

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