Since this series is pretty new still, I wanted to catch up on what has been put out so far, #4 comes out the end of January.
Olive gets partnered with her least favorite person in school for a project and together they find a book in the library about the Cobblepot ghost. The school's north hall has been blocked off and the two girls with the help of Maps and some other delinquent go there in search of the ghost.
Olive's memory is really spotty but when she see's the entrance to the north hall she realizes that she has been there before, and not alone. They find a hole in the floor, and someone or something is in the whole and grabs Olive.
Nothing really crazy has happened, its still mostly about high school drama. I feel like this would be a good recommendation for a teen who isn't really allowed to read violent stories but also wants some suspense.
So GOOD WHY IS IT OVER
I think its such a neat idea that DC put out three, one year long, weekly stories. Waiting a whole month (or sometimes more if an issue is pushed back) feels like such a tease. I like the idea of only having to wait one week for the next issue to come out.
My coworker recommended me this volume to read which is issues #1-21 of Batman Eternal. The story arch started in March of 2014 so it has a few months left. I think they are on issue #37 right now. So its all current stuff and the idea is so awesome.
I am really into the idea of having multiple artists and (one main, but some other co-writers) writers working collaboratively on one story so it can continue to come out each week. I felt like the story writing was cohesive throughout but sometimes the switch of artists was hard to get used to. I felt like for the most part, everyone's characters looked the same but Jason Bard looked so different each issue it was hard to get past.
This story has some MAJOR plot twists which I am down with but also struggling currently because this volume ended with a major one, and volume 2 doesn't come out until the summer so that means I have to get single issues starting with 22 and read from there on because I must know whats up with Jim Gordon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I also found that this book introduced a lot of characters (like most superhero universes do) but something that is helpful for me to do is read it, and any character I don't know, I write their name down and then cross reference it with wikipedia if they keep coming up and I'm still confused about who they are. I found it to be really helpful for characters like Jim Corrigan and Red Hood who I didn't know before. But! In reading about Jim Corrigan, I realized that I already DO know his character from reading the first issue of Gotham at Midnight. But I had no idea of his importance or back story then.
Anyway, very cool read. I also now am super interested in one of DC's other year long story archs, Futures End which is about Gotham but is set 5 years into the future. I don't see how everyone can keep these stories straight because they are all about the same place but totally different things happening at one time.
Commissioner Gordon has a secret team of police that work the midnight shift in Gotham protecting, surveying and taking care of supernatural occurrences throughout Gotham.
These two girls who had been missing show up at their parents house but aren't speaking a known language. Their parents are concerned and call these guys in to help them out.
They figure out that the girls have been possessed by something, or have been really close to death recently. The issue ends with these two dudes going into the woods and finding an eerie school room cabin full of other children sitting in a classroom and a demon nun writing on a chalkboard. Once they open the door to that school room, the two girls at their parents house lose their marbles and start going crazy.
Once again, hard to really tell if I am down with this story or if I want to read further because of these damn cliffhangers.
Barf.
I'm not into this.
I don't want to talk about how much I am not into this.
This story is following a number of academy students around Gotham Academy.
The main girl Olive with white hair is suuuuuper moody and acting like she has changed so much since the last year and wants to break up with her boyfriend and doesn't know why she feels so different and blah blah.
The younger girl, Maps is the younger sister of Olive's current boyfriend who she wants to break up with. Olive is supposed to be mentoring Maps this year because she is a first year student at the academy.
Bruce Wayne comes and visits the academy and Olive gets in trouble and somehow Bruce already knows who she is. Olive is NOT down with Batman, and she seems very angsty about the whole Batman hero in her hometown and is annoyed when people are talking about it.
There is talk that there is a ghost in the school, there was an incident that no one is speaking about yet in detail and the issue ends with a yellow eye peeking out of a crack in Olive's bedroom.
