Gotham Academy #10 Review

Writers: Brenden Fletcher, Becky Cloonan / Artist: Karl Kerschl / DC Comics Bruh. Let’s keep it 100: even “meh” issues of Gotham Academy are fun to read. Issue #10 didn’t have nearly enough Maps but had plenty of entertainment from other, unexpected places, from heavy Gargoyles Macbeth references to a surprise villain twist. This issue reminds us the wide range of tools this series utilizes to keep every issue interesting. Let’s be honest, no one really enjoys Shakespeare – maybe 2% of your friends, the same 2% that ruined karaoke with bad songs last weekend after you “forgot” to send them the Facebook invite for your birthday party but they found out and came anyway – and the Detective Club giving me flashbacks of English class with Ms. Rosas won’t change my mind. But if it inspires interest for young readers then that’s amazing, and the show must go on so we were gonna freak this review anyway. Supernatural occurrences have folk shook and all roads lead back to Olive’s mother as the Detective Club tries to solve who’s haunting the school. As far as Olive’s concerned, she already knows who it is: it’s the ghost of her own mother. That’s messed up, yo. I feel like Olive needs an adventure with Zuko, like “Yeah, my moms went crazy and now she haunts my school’s theater.”

That’s still more consolation than what Professor Strange can offer, yo. Fam, why is this dude a school counselor? Olive comes to my man with her deepest emotions and Professor ScratchNSniff gives her riddles…