Twenty issues of Morning Glories and I’m still in the dark as to what is going on. When I tell people about the book I say it’s like Lost in a high school but with even less answers. Still, there’s something to be said about Nick Spencer’s ability to make me want to keep buying every issue in hopes of figuring something out. This chapter offers up some interesting material that for the first time shows the ideas that shaped Morning Glories Academy into the psychotic school we know today. Scanning back over the issue after reading, one word sticks out that makes the school seem like something else entirely. The word is “war,” and it’s got me excited.
It’s hard not to be a fan of how clear and concise Joe Eisma’s artwork is. His efforts make the competition look like a jumble in comparison. Each panel vividly showcases carefully chosen moments that are so intuitively drawn that they could tell the story without any dialog. Well, the bits of story without complex mysteries. A lot of horror movies utilize the movement of the camera and specific music to get a scare out of the audience, but Eisma manages to do so twice in this issue with no such aid.
By showing Georgina and Lara’s past, Spencer gives the tiniest insight into the origins of the school. But with curveballs such as the homeless man’s appearance and Lara’s conviction that there are people screaming underground, it’s hard to make sense of it because the mysteries just keep stacking up. I have made a list of the mysteries, and I would post it here if it weren’t in the triple digits.
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