Ripley is the youngest and most energetic of the girls, liable to launch herself towards danger without any fear.

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And I really liked that Bruce Wayne is just some dorky dude who keeps coming to the school and being that adult guy that other adults like but kids don't. I can understand why Cloonan/Fletcher have put these two together in a Batman-themed comic: they’re the tween girl equivalent of classic Batman and Robin. If you're only familiar with one, you'll likely be confused, because there are SO many characters to keep track of, and you'll understand more if you know the characters already and don't need any introductions. Clearly Gotham Academy wasn’t aimed at a reader like me but even with lowered standards and trying to look at this from a kid’s point of view, this was pretty damn weak.

Bruce Wayne enrolled Olive in Gotham Academy so she could be monitored while still being around other children. Spit Take: Jen does one when she learns that the machine "nobody has over here" that Louise is talking about is a karaoke machine. Written by Chynna Clugston Flores ("Blue Monday"), and illustrated by Rosemary Valero-O Connell ("Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me") and Maddi Gonzalez, this is a running-for-your-life-from-skeletal-monsters mystery that leads to lifelong friendship! Rosie is investigating a seemingly abandoned lodge near the camp when she gets confronted by a mysterious creature.

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When a teacher at Gotham Academy goes missing, it’s up to Olive, Maps, Colton, Pom, and Kyle to figure out what is happening and how to get her back. Her famous move includes drop-kicking things in the stomach, including foxes, yetis, statues, and even Mal, and she sometimes gets her friends to throw her at enemies.

The Gotham Academy kids team up with the Lumberjanes because MacPherson, the Scottish teacher at GA, has gone missing, and so has Rosie, the director of the Lumberjanes camp.

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A number of students are convinced a ghost is haunting the grounds and they decide to investigate: Scooby-Doo! Fate Worse than Death: Pom considers being locked in a room with nothing to do but watch Facts Of Life and Family Ties episodes to be this. The headmaster’s design made me smile though, taking his aesthetic cue from the performance artist supervillain look that’s so prevalent in Gotham! There are a lot of moving parts, and it really gets messy as the story goes on because some people just don't have much to contribute to the plot. Her quiet, withdrawn demeanor hides a deeply angry young woman struggling to heal from a traumatic event.

Jen just wants a normal lesson with her cabin, teaching Jo, April, Mal, Molly, and Ripley the basic survival skills needed without any supernatural intervention. At first you have no real idea why, but what is fun about this book is that little bits and pieces get explained as you read it. Olive appears in the limited series Lumberjanes/Gotham Academy, an intercompany crossover with BOOM!

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Lumberjanes is a comic book series created by Shannon Watters, Grace Ellis, Gus Allen, and ND Stevenson [2] and published via the Boom Box! Though Jen takes her job very seriously and is often stern with her campers, she genuinely cares for them and tries to protect them from harm. Nothing much happens in the way of plot in the first volume, it's mostly world- and relationship-building.My one complaint was with the art; it wasn't that it wasn't beautiful art, but that I kept getting some of the characters confused because they looked the same (Mal, Pom, Jo for example). I also found it really hard to keep track of characters in this volume because each group of kids wasn’t in their typical art style or clothes, so it made it difficult to keep track other than by hair style. Lumberjanes/Gotham Academy is a six-issue miniseries published in 2016, a co-production between Boom!