#agentausten

omg i love this!!!

I’m so glad this book is so many people’s favorites??? POA was always my absolute favorite in the world.

I’ve had a few friends over the years who don’t love it like I do--something with it being a wimpy plot because Voldemort isn’t really in it??--but that never made sense to me because

well, to me, PoA is the core of the Potter spirit. Sure, everything hinges on GoF when shit goes down and the stakes go up--that I get. But in so many other sense, PoA is really what these books are all about: friendship and relationships and LITERALLY FIGHTING DARKNESS WITH JOY AND LOVE whether it’s fighting fear (boggarts) with laughter or unending sadness (dementors) with love, like. 

HOW ARE YOU SO STYLISH AND COOL CONSTANTLY

I love it! It’s one of my current faves. I’m always delighted by well done teen comics (see also: Young Avengers, Lumberjanes, Ms Marvel, etc). Gotham  Academy taps into that and also my love for Bat books that aren’t about Batman. My favorite Bat stories are always ones about other Gotham City characters reacting to Batman. Add to the mix that Gotham Academy is about boarding school hijinks and yeah, I can’t say enough good things about this.

The main character Olive Silverlock is a scholarship student whose mother is locked away in Arkham Asylum and something happened over summer break that Olive can’t remember. She also has some crazy super powers we’re only just learning about. She’s friends with a younger student everyone calls Maps. And I like how Olive’s contentious friendship with Penelope -- a surly girl who grudgingly accepts Olive -- is evolving.

The latest issue introduced Damian Wayne into the story so I’m even more excited to see where this goes. Damian is my favorite Robin, and he’s SPYING on Olive for Bruce (oooooooo)

Also, there’s been some brief critique (in the form of Olive shouting at Batman) on how Batman handles mentally ill “criminals.” I hope the series features more of that in the future because lord knows the Batverse could use a bit. The fact that Olive’s mother is (as far as we know right now) severely mentally ill and locked away for it strikes a chord with me.

y’all i thought the same thing before i even scrolled down to either of your tags

MURDER ME RE: THIS EXCERPT HE ALMOST MISSES THE FUCKING EXIT BC HE CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT TOUCHING HER HAND???????????????????

This is my theory too!!!! I will hold on to it until they come to pry the Raven king out of my cold dead hands bc gansey will be DEAD