#isla macpherson

*smacking Bruce Wayne with a stick*

2024 is such a big year for Stephanie Beatriz. She voiced four characters in these major animated shows throughout the year:

January: Vaggie in ‘Hazbin Hotel’

July: Amara in Marvel’s ‘Hit-Monkey’ Season 2

October: Lady Kima in ‘The Legend of Vox Machina’ Season 3

December: Dr. Aisla MacPherson (originally Isla MacPherson in the comics) in DC’s ‘Creature Commandos’

This makes me so mad because could you imagine if DC hadn't been cowards? If Barbara had been a schoolteacher at Gotham Academy, like in the Birds of Prey show? 😭

Spoilers for Batman: The Brave and the Bold (2023-) #12

Maps! As some might realise, I am quite the fan of Maps Mizoguchi. Gotham Academy was one of the first comics I read in great length and Maps herself is quite the fun character. So I’ve been looking forward to each part of her appearance in Brave and the Bold.

And let me say; #12 did not disappoint…

Maps is OFFICIAL Robin! Woohoo!

Maps is now an official Robin! Not only that but she also knows Batman’s secret identity. Interestingly though; Alfred is alive in this which means this all happened sometime before “the present”, which means chronologically she’d actually known this info for quite the while now.

Does kinda make me wonder what exactly she’s been up too during all the events between “the present” and her discovering Batman’s identity. I’ve seen it suggested on Reddit she might’ve been off looking for Olive; which would make sense since Olive’s whereabouts a very major hanging plot thread.

They made a point of starting this arc in #10 with a flashback to Olive; so that could suggest that a return to her plot line and what she’s been up to since the conclusion of second semester is being set up.

Overall though. I really loved this arc, and it was great to see Maps as Robin and even get acknowledged as such by Bruce. And I have enjoyed both seeing Maps in action as Robin and also her dynamic with Bruce.

Having Maps be skilled a researching monsters like Kappas and such has been a pretty neat reoccurring skill Maps has displayed in her appearances. Gotham Academy did tend to lean towards the more supernatural aspects of the Gotham setting and so it seems fitting for Maps to have this speciality.

i want isla macpherson to adopt olive and also i want to know more about her

pomeline/olive and kyle/colton are where it’s at

maps and damian’s budding friendship is adorable and deserves to be explored in detail

Or more specifically, the degree to which the adults are aware of their activities and condone them.  Not the first thing to make me think of this (MacPherson has been in on some of the previous actions, and Langstrom knows a bit so on).

Lumberjanes/Gotham Academy

“Life seems worse when your young because everything is new. You assume adults never went through what you did because they don’t seem to feel anything as acutely. But, i’ll tell you a secret there were you they were you. Yet the world still spins no matter what happens, and eventually we all grow up. Part of maturity is approaching situations with as much calm and clarity as we can muster so we can help the young learn to cope with problems when all we really want is to scream, too. Like right bloody now, for instance.”