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A review by ultramarine316
Gotham Academy Vol. 1: Welcome to Gotham Academy (the New 52) by Becky Cloonan, Brenden Fletcher
4.0
Olive was left, for all intents and purposes, an orphan when Batman put her mother to Arkham asylum. Fortunately, Bruce Wayne, acting as a completely disinterested philanthropist, of course, has provided her with a scholarship to attend Gotham Academy, the same prestigious prep school he attended as a child. However, Olive's memories of the events that put her mother in Arkham are largely missing, leading her to fear that she might be going crazy too and the old school seems to be hiding some secrets of its own.
I was unsure about this one at first. For one thing, it jumps right into the story in a way that kept making me wonder if this was really the first volume or if I'd picked up a later one by mistake. For another, I was afraid that the gothic clichés were going to get cloying. But I soon got into it; madness and crumbling gothic buildings (and bats) have always been part of batman, this story just plays them up.
I was unsure about this one at first. For one thing, it jumps right into the story in a way that kept making me wonder if this was really the first volume or if I'd picked up a later one by mistake. For another, I was afraid that the gothic clichés were going to get cloying. But I soon got into it; madness and crumbling gothic buildings (and bats) have always been part of batman, this story just plays them up.