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Brenden Fletcher
@brendenfletcher.bsky.social
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NYT bestselling writer /// GOTHAM ACADEMY, BATGIRL, BLACK CANARY, ISOLA, MOTOR CRUSH, GHOST IN THE SHELL, STRANGER THINGS

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Brenden Fletcher @brendenfletcher.bsky.social · Jul 15
GOTHAM ACADEMY IS BACK!!

OCT 1, 2025 💀📚🕯️

Story: me, @karlkerschl.bsky.social & @beckycloonan.bsky.social
Art: @marcoferrarink.bsky.social & Eva de la Cruz
Letters: Steve Wands

6-issue prequel series to be collected into YA Graphic Novel Aug 4, 2026

www.dc.com/blog/2025/07...
Gotham Academy: First Year #1 Cover Art by Karl Kerschl Olive Silverlock is about to enter Gotham Academy. Bats fly around her. Other students stand nearby.
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First look at one of the covers for GOTHAM ACADEMY: FIRST YEAR #5 by the incredible @karlkerschl.bsky.social

This issue is a big one for Olive.

More soon. 🦇
A cover illustration for Gotham Academy: First Year #5 by Karl Kerschl featuring Olive Silverlock in a dramatic rain-soaked scene with a looming figure behind her.
November 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Gotham Academy: First Year #2 is absolutely MAGICAL!

This new series is just as captivating and gorgeously told as its predecessors! Seeing @brendenfletcher.bsky.social, @beckycloonan.bsky.social @karlkerschl.bsky.social Marco Ferriera, Eva de la Cruz & Steve Wands tell GA's origins is a treat!
My copy of Gotham Academy: First Year #2 Cover art by Karl Kerschl Olive Silverlock & Maps Mizoguchi bond over a D-20
November 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Love @marcoferrarink.bsky.social’s mini Maps and Olive (plus Bruce and Isla!) — so tiny on the page, still overflowing with personality.

A panel from GOTHAM ACADEMY: FIRST YEAR #3
In stores Dec 3 🦇📚💀
A panel from Gotham Academy: First Year #3 by Marco Ferrari and Eva de La Cruz — a nearly empty white panel with four small figures clustered at the bottom: Maps facing away from Olive, Isla, and Bruce. The vast blank space above them gives the moment a quiet, cinematic feel.
November 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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DC = 🔥
❓ Batman (Fraction & @jorgejimenezart.bsky.social) asks new riddles
🦇 Knightfight brought unhinged combat (Williamson & Mora)
🏰 Gotham Academy: First Year redefines family drama (@beckycloonan.bsky.social , @karlkerschl.bsky.social, @brendenfletcher.bsky.social & @marcoferrarink.bsky.social)
November 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Fantastic introduction of Maps Mizoguchi in Gotham Academy: First Year #2. Also a shout out to what is considered the very first gothic novel! #DCcomics
#Batman
#GothamAcademy
November 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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4 nickles and I've developed an unexpected camaraderie with Sybil Silverlocke #comicsky #GothamAcademy
Cover of Gotham Academy First Year by Becky Cloonan, Karl Kerschl, Brendan Fletcher and Marco Ferrari A panel from Gotham Academy First Year showing Olive Silverlocke speaking with her mother Sybil in Arkham Asylum. Sybil says: "Olive Silverlocke, your mother is stuck in this dreadful place, starved for romantic drama of any kind! So, if you have anything spicy to tell me you better spill it!" Olive gasps "MOTHER!"
November 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Here's my review for Gotham Academy: First Year no. 2! nerdinitiative.com/2025/11/05/g...
GOTHAM ACADEMY: FIRST YEAR #2 – The Good and the Bad
hings seem to be looking up for Olive at the Gotham Academy after she's been in such a low place. She has a boyfriend named Kyle, she has made friends with her
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November 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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FOC for GOTHAM ACADEMY: FIRST YEAR #3 is Mon, Nov 10—your last chance to make sure your shop orders you a copy!

Olive’s big night on stage takes a wild turn when the football team crashes the play… with fire.

Batman. Prom. Pyrotechnics.

Covers by
@karlkerschl.bsky.social & @sen1227.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Preview de Gotham Academy: First Year #2 (of 6) par @brendenfletcher.bsky.social, @karlkerschl.bsky.social, @beckycloonan.bsky.social, Marco Ferrari (@marcoferrarink.bsky.social) et Eva de la Cruz chez @dc.com #DCComics #Comics #GothamAcademy www.buzzcomics.net/showpost.php...
November 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Life at Gotham Academy is getting complicated.

Olive’s falling for Kyle Mizoguchi, learning her lines for the school play… and about to meet someone who will change her life forever.

GOTHAM ACADEMY: FIRST YEAR #2 is on sale November 5.

#GothamAcademy #Preview #OliveSilverlock
A page of comic art from Gotham Academy: First Year #2, with art by Marco Ferrari and colors by Eva de la Cruz. A page of comic art from Gotham Academy: First Year #2, with art by Marco Ferrari and colors by Eva de la Cruz. A page of comic art from Gotham Academy: First Year #2, with art by Marco Ferrari and colors by Eva de la Cruz.
November 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Roll for curiosity…

…SUCCESS!
October 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Awesome variant by @hainingart.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Prepare your d20
Serpents&Spells Awaits!

Gotham Academy First Year #2
Out next week 11/05

@brendenfletcher.bsky.social
@beckycloonan.bsky.social
@karlkerschl.bsky.social

@dc.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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GOTHAM ACADEMY: FIRST YEAR #4

In stores Jan 7, 2026.

by
@brendenfletcher.bsky.social
@karlkerschl.bsky.social
@beckycloonan.bsky.social
and yours truly
@marcoferrarink.bsky.social

@dc.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Her guardian angel came with wings of a bat and eyes full of sorrow.
October 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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New semester, new crush, new monster in the woods. 🦇

GOTHAM ACADEMY: FIRST YEAR #4
Cover by @karlkerschl.bsky.social

In stores Jan 7, 2026.
Pre-order at your local comic store today!
Karl Kerschl’s cover for Gotham Academy: First Year #4 featuring Man-Bat-Boy Tristan Grey hiding in a tree, covering his face
October 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Olive
October 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Some familiar faces might be hiding in Gotham Academy’s hallway… I had to.
October 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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🚨 Big Gotham news from #NYCC!

💋 Sirens: Love Hurts by Tini Howard & @babsdraws.bsky.social — think Sex and the City with Gotham’s bad girls.
🐾 Absolute Catwoman revealed by @ssnyder1835.bsky.social, Che Grayson & Bengal, with official Catwoman designs + more here:
DC unleashes ‘Sirens: Love Hurts’ and ‘Absolute Catwoman’ at NYCC
DC’s Gotham City Panel delivered big reveals, from 'Sirens: Love Hurts' to the surprise announcement of 'Absolute Catwoman'.
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October 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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MAPS: "Roll a 20 and we're bonded forever."
OLIVE: "Pretty sure that already happened."

28 days until the First Meeting of BFFs Olive and Maps AKA Gotham Academy: First Year #2!

Pre-order from your local comic store today!!
@karlkerschl.bsky.social cover Product code: 0925DC0180
Karl Kerschl’s main cover art for Gotham Academy: First Year #2 featuring Olive and Maps lying at the floor, on top of Serpents and Spells game maps, looking at a glowing red D20 while pondering their new friendship
October 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Love the #1 issue of GOTHAM ACADEMY FIRST YEAR! The School has secrets. So does Olive Silverlock. No knowledge of the previous (wonderful) series is needed. Buy your copy at Reading’s @crunchcomics.bsky.social @karlkerschl.bsky.social @brendenfletcher.bsky.social @beckycloonan.bsky.social @dc.com
October 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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You think you know Colton Rivera?
Think again.

29 days until Gotham Academy: First Year #2!!
(LOVE this @marcoferrarink.bsky.social drawing)

Pre-order from your local comic store!!
@karlkerschl.bsky.social cover Product code: 0925DC0180
@hainingart.bsky.social cover Product code: 0925DC0181
A Marco Ferrari drawing of Colton Rivera looking shocked while being held by the collar in a threatening way by an otherwise unseen assailant. A panel from Gotham Academy: First Year #2
October 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Here's my primer on Gotham Academy, just in time for the launch of GOTHAM ACADEMY: FIRST YEAR #1.

www.dc.com/blog/2025-10...
Getting Started at Gotham Academy | DC
If you’re new to the secretive world of Gotham Academy, we’re here to show you a little around campus.
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October 1, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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"The creative team behind 'Gotham Academy' did not miss a beat. 'First Year' acts as a perfect starting point for new readers and a lovely trip down memory lane for longtime fans."
@karlkerschl.bsky.social @marcoferrarink.bsky.social #NCBD #comicsky
Read Nathan's review:
‘Gotham Academy: First Year’ #1 review: Sympathy for the devil
'Gotham Academy' begins in the debut of an exciting new prequel series.
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October 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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DC Round-Up: We go back to school with GOTHAM ACADEMY – FIRST YEAR

Gotham Academy First Year is the lead review for this week's DC Round-Up, which also features Batman, Absolute Evil, and more!
DC Round-Up: We go back to school with GOTHAM ACADEMY – FIRST YEAR
Gotham Academy First Year is the lead review for this week's DC Round-Up, which also features Batman, Absolute Evil, and more!
www.comicsbeat.com
October 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM