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

www.brendenfletcher.com
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Prom night’s never just slow dances and crowns 💐🦇 #GothamAcademy
A close crop of a character from Gotham Academy wearing a ripped up tux and loosened bow tie from Karl Kerschl’s main cover of GOTHAM ACADEMY: FIRST YEAR #3
September 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Prom night and Pomeline already looks like she’s about to burn it all down. 👻📚#GothamAcademy
A crop of Pomeline Fritch from Karl Kerschl’s main cover of GOTHAM ACADEMY: FIRST YEAR #3
September 17, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Look who made it to prom. Been a while.
🎸💀📚 @karlkerschl.bsky.social @beckycloonan.bsky.social @marcoferrarink.bsky.social @drinkpinkink.bsky.social
A tight crop of the main cover of the upcoming third issue of GOTHAM ACADEMY: FIRST YEAR, highlighting DC publicity favorite character, Heathcliff Ray. He likes music almost as much as Mike Nero
September 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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This is where it starts. #GothamAcademy @marcoferrarink.bsky.social @karlkerschl.bsky.social @beckycloonan.bsky.social
A script fragment from Gotham Academy: First Year Issue #2 describing the first meeting between Maps and Olive
August 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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New friends come from the unlikeliest of rolls. 🎲📚🔍
August 14, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Exactly two months ‘til GOTHAM ACADEMY: FIRST YEAR #1 hits shelves!

Preorder now at your local comic shop—3 covers, including this sweet vibe by @duss005.bsky.social (who contributed to GA #14 back in 2016).

Feels good to be back. More to come. 🦇📚
Gotham Academy: First Year issue #1 by Dustin Nguyen - students lay on their backs in a circle on the grass, just chillin
August 1, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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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.
July 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Excited to return to @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social after five years away from Festivals & Cons. My struggles with long covid have made work & travel a challenge but I finally made the call to get back out there and be with friends & fans again!

Come find me at TABLE B20 in the TRAVELLING MAN HALL👋
Thought Bubble Comic Art Festival guest announcements including writer Brenden Fletcher
November 9, 2024 at 2:29 PM
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Ten years and counting... 📚💀🔍
October 1, 2024 at 7:36 PM
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TEN YEARS AGO TODAY - OCT. 1, 2014

Happy Birthday, Gotham Academy! 🎂

Miss you, pals :)
Gotham Academy #1 (DC Comics - 2014)
October 1, 2024 at 6:57 PM