Like Buffy, Elena, or even the eponymous Veronica Mars, Gotham Academy’s protagonist Olive Silverlock is having an identity crisis. It reminds me of Buffy the Vampire Slayer or first season Vampire Diaries, although the supernatural presence lurking behind Gotham Academy isn’t vampires, it’s Batman. This first collection of Gotham Academy runs on teen angst, mystery, and a touch of self-referential humor. GOTHAM ACADEMY is a new, monthly teen drama set in the shadow of Batman and the craziness of Gotham City, with new characters and old plus a secret tie to Gotham’s past… Did you hear the rumor about the ghost in the North Hall?! Like, what’s up with Olive Silverlock? Is she crazy or what? Where did she go last summer? And what’s the deal with her creepy mom? And how come that Freshman MAPS is always following her around? And is she still going out with Kyle? P.S. But nothing is as strange is the students! It’s got a spooky campus, oddball teachers, and rich benefactors always dropping by…like that weirdo Bruce Wayne. WELCOME TO GOTHAM ACADEMY! Gotham City’s most prestigious prep school is a very weird place. Writers Brenden Fletcher and Becky Cloonan give Gotham a fresh, new take with Gotham Academy Vol. A little hormone-driven defiance and melodrama wipes that musty self-seriousness right off. You know what Batman really needs to get past the seemingly cemented gritty darkness of the Nolan film franchise? Teen drama. Recommended for fans of Bossypants, Terry Gilliam, and Malefic Raiment. But I’d definitely hand it out to teenagers and college students if that wouldn’t be creepy and expensive. Encountering it at my age I can pass on whatever wisdom it has to offer to others. And even now it’s sort of specific and even kind of weird. Suddenly the whole narrative made so much more sense.ĭay strips her rise to celebrity down to the bones, showing how it’s dirty and odd and difficult. When it did, I learned that Codex, portrayed in The Guild as a priest, was actually a warlock. It was entertaining before WoW entered the picture. What I got was a surprisingly relatable story about a child prodigy that was part Real Genius and part every nerd everywhere. So I expected some stuff about childhood and some stuff about Geek and Sundry and I was hoping for a little bit about that moment where our lives intersected someone else’s, however briefly and tenuously. It was “ Do You Wanna Date My Avatar” playing while we waited for a raid to start. Yes, we’d seen Felicia Day in Buffy and then Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, but I never went out of my way to read about the lives of any of the principals. A dissociated narrator reading someone else’s autobiographical material makes me go Twilight Zone.īut it was really because of World of Warcraft. Like the last memoir I took in, I’d heard plenty of good things about it and it was read by the author. Oddly enough, Felicia Day’s kind of does.Īnd that’s not even why I chose the audiobook. Most lives don’t have the metatextual intricacy or the teenagers and lazers I usually go for. I think I can still count all the memoirs I’ve ever read on one hand. It’s been more than year since I read or listened to a memoir. Ever candid, she opens up about the rough patches along the way, recounting battles with writer’s block, a full-blown gaming addiction, severe anxiety and depression-and how she reinvented herself when overachieving became overwhelming. Or when she tired of being typecast as the crazy cat-lady secretary and decided to create her own web series before people in show business understood that online video could be more than just cats chasing laser pointers.įelicia’s rags-to-riches rise to internet fame launched her career as one of the most influential creators in new media. Like when she graduated as valedictorian with a math degree and then headed to Hollywood to pursue a career in acting despite having zero contacts. Because she had no idea how “uncool” she really was.īut if it hadn’t been for her strange background- the awkwardness continued when she started college at sixteen, with Mom driving her to campus every day-she might never have had the naive confidence to forge her own path. Her relative isolation meant that she could pursue passions like gaming, calculus, and 1930’s detective novels without shame. The internet was in its infancy and she became an early adopter at every stage of its growth-finding joy and unlikely friendships in the emerging digital world. Growing up in the Deep South, where she was “home-schooled for hippie reasons,” she looked online to find her tribe. When Felicia Day was a girl, all she wanted was to connect with other kids (desperately). You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) written and read by Felicia Day
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