![]() Olive went through a lot of back-and-forth trying to arrive at a look for her.īrenden: Becky and I spoke about it with Karl, outside of the Mizoguchis, the ethnicities of the characters are left a bit more ambiguous. Maps I had a pretty solid idea of what she was going to look like. I felt she was an easier visual for you to arrive at in terms of who she was. The first character that you drew was Maps, right? Brenden, outside Maps’s name, we never really talked about it, did we?īrenden: No. My wife’s mother is from Japan so I’ve been immersed in Japanese culture for so many years, it was so nice to be able to represent a piece of that. And Maps just came through so easily, mostly because of her personality. He’ll write something and I will get this idea of the character, not just visually, but as a whole person. But Brenden and I have a really intuitive process. It’s the first time I’ve ever worked with Becky. This is the first time we all worked as a group together. Even if she wasn’t going to visually look like that, her family had Japanese ancestry with a last name like Mizoguchi. Right from the beginning, Maps was Japanese-American. When in the process did you start talking about what the characters would look like?īrenden Fletcher: We are talking about more than what they look like. Not just the beautiful art, but what they look like. One of the main reasons I love Gotham Academy is the cast. It is published by DC Comics and written by Becky Cloonan and Brenden Fletcher, with art by Karl Kerschl Gotham Academy and its diverse cast are beloved by fans and critics alike, showcasing that comic books need not look a certain way. It features a young cast headed by Olive Silverlock and Mia ‘Maps’ Mizoguchi. Gotham Academy is a comic book set in a prestigious boarding school in the City of Gotham. Karl Kerschl, Becky Cloonan and Brenden Fletcher Photo Courtesy Robert Tutton, Paste Magazine You can find her on Twitter as here for the introduction to the Comics, Human Rights and Representation Week. Brandon Ingram spoke after that game in Atlanta about what the Lakers have to do if they want to right the ship and make it into the postseason.Īs you’d probably expect after such a disappointing night, Ingram ( who has been a lot better than you probably think) didn’t have a lot to say other than that the Lakers have to be a lot better (via Spectrum SportsNet): The Los Angeles Lakers set off on their post All-Star Game slate on Thursday night, but will do so coming off of one of their worst losses of the season.Maria Werdine Norris is a final year PhD candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research is on the British Counterterrorism strategy and legislation, with a focus on nationalism, security and human rights. “We have 25 games just to wash (this last loss) out and just be better, and just think about the playoffs, think about how we can lock in each game and how much each game counts.”Ī quick glance at the schedule really highlights how difficult a task the Lakers have in front of them, having to make up a gap of two and a half games over their next 25 contests. ![]() They’ll have to do so against tougher competition than the teams they’re trying to catch, too. Thursday night, they’ll face the Houston Rockets at home, and over the next couple months, they’ll take on the Milwaukee Bucks and Utah Jazz twice each. The rest of their schedule features games against the Denver Nuggets, Golden State Warriors, Oklahoma City Thunder, Toronto Raptors and Portland Trail Blazers - all of whom have beaten the Lakers already. They’ll also face the very Clippers they’re trying to leapfrog twice, and the Sacramento Kings once in what may prove to be a gigantic tiebreaker. In all likelihood, they’ll have to do all that without Lonzo Ball for at least another couple weeks, given the conservative way the medical staff has handled his injuries in the past. Even when he does return, it will take some time to get back to the kind of basketball he was playing before spraining his ankle.Īll of this isn’t to say making it to the playoffs is impossible, mind you. Ball could return sooner than expected, and the Lakers could get back to playing literally any defense whatsoever. LeBron James could stop passive-aggressively taking stretches of games off and the entire team could figure things out. Crazier things have happened, after all.īut Ingram’s point remains. ![]() The Lakers have to lock in and stay focused for the next 25 games. It’ll take going at least 17-8 to reach 45 wins, which seems to be just about where the cutoff will be for these playoffs. Any fewer than 45 total wins leaves a lot up to chance and, given how tough the Western Conference is, it isn’t worth risking that if you can avoid it. ![]() Should the Lakers fail to turn things around and get into the playoffs, an already busy offseason to be would get even more uncomfortable. ![]()
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