Ritu Nair
This volume was a bit all over the place, with different style as well as different elements in the storyline. Mainly it is about the secrets of Gotham Academy and Olive's family legacy of being fire elementals (I think?) or being possessed by one? The heart of the storyline is Maps, whose enthusiastic investigative skills has the squad getting into adventures. The standalone story about her and Damian Wayne having an adventure on their own had particularly good artwork - the lighting, the character design, the coloring were all so beautiful. As for the main story, it had them hunting a werewolf on campus, then using Kyle's tennis tournament to sneak into Gotham city, ultimately revealing Olive's family secret (which she doesn't entirely reveal to her friends so we have that drama to look forward to in the next volume oof!). However, the scene transitions were choppy in these, and the story kept jumping forward without proper cause, making it feel like the storyboard was not well planned. Overall, a weaker sequel, but I am optimistic about the next one.
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