YMMV / Gotham High

• Captain Obvious Reveal: Le gasp, Selina was the Big Bad all along! This would be surprising if she weren't shown watching the security feed during Harvey's kidnapping. Even ignoring that, her mask is blatantly cat-like.
• So Okay, It's Average: While having some interesting ideas such as Bruce Wayne and the Joker having had a brief friendship in high school and a good use of Adaptational Diversity, the comic is otherwise an average high school mystery that could have been told with an original cast.
• Tainted by the Preview: The trailer for the comic book has over 35K dislikes, and most fans view it as a generic Teen Drama fanfiction. Not helped by the fact Melissa de la Cruz has admitted she is not familiar with the comics and has cited Gossip Girl (2007) as an inspiration for her story.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: The adaptation of Alfred being split into two characters, Alfred Dean-Pennyworth and his husband John Pennyworth, could have featured one being based on one past portrayal of Alfred and the other on yet another portrayal. Instead, there is very little to the characters, leaving them as rather flat.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • The idea of a Batman High School AU does have potential and a similar idea has been done before to success, but the book utterly wastes whatever potential the premise might've had by being a generic high school Teen Drama story that has little to nothing to do with Batman.
  • Having Bruce be half-Chinese could have allowed for an exploration of the differing folklore regarding bats in the West and in China.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Selina outright admits that she loves both Batman and Joker, and wants them to play off against each other for her love, for no other reason than her being a Manipulative Bitch. It is made worse by the reveal that she was the Big Bad all along. Her Freudian Excuse regarding her dead mother and sick father comes across as rather hollow, considering she openly manipulated both Jack and Bruce for profit, and she had Harvey Dent disfigured after he was kidnapped by mistake.

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