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bemerson's review
4.0
Still good. Still raising questions that will probably never be answered. Oh well. On to the next.
justkeyreads's review
4.0
This volume spotlighted each of the Glories and their pasts and the effects their choices had on their present.
blackwolf's review
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
sarcasmpotato's review
3.0
*3.5 Stars
Some more things were fleshed out in this volume but I still think it's lacking an actual plot line. There is a bunch of character development and I understand how important it all is but I still don't really know what it is all for? Like what is the endgame or what are we building up to???
Some more things were fleshed out in this volume but I still think it's lacking an actual plot line. There is a bunch of character development and I understand how important it all is but I still don't really know what it is all for? Like what is the endgame or what are we building up to???
thereadingoutlaw's review
5.0
It just keeps getting better! I'm a little taken aback by how quickly I'm falling massively in love with this series, but everything from the characters (so much backstory! so much good personality) to the art style (THOSE COLOR WASHES!) is just wow.
ltg584's review
3.0
ARGH! I can't help but keep going with the series, because they're just giving me more questions than answers! I NEED TO KNOW!
misterrogersneighbor's review
3.0
Disturbing and still strange, but I'll definitely read the next one.
christine_s's review
4.0
Still don't know what the heck is going on, but intrigued enough to keep on keeping on. Nice art, consistent mysteries violent plot.
chanclatime's review
1.0
Hoooo boy.
Morning Glories, you and I, we're not friends. Here's why.
Narratively? We're in a holding pattern from Volume 1, and it's getting obvious. There are no answers. None. Only questions. And quite frankly, it's not clever, or fun - it's annoying. There's no sense of discovery for the reader as things slowly make more sense, because things NEVER make more sense. From panel to panel the writing is fine, but I'm really dubious about the overarching plan. Maybe it's just that the pacing is poorly done, but that's a real problem when you're asking readers to stick around not just for one book, but for multiple volumes.
(And just because I'm getting petty and nit-picky, why is "fuck" okay to say in its verb form, but not as an exclamation or expletive? And on a less petty note, why the FUCK does writer Spencer think it's okay for a female teacher to seduce a 16 year old, when he went out of his way to talk about how horrifying it was for a male teacher to do the exact same thing in the same volume???)
Artistically? It's weak. It's weeeaaaaaak. And I mean that on an imaginative level more than a technical one. Eisma can draw sexy school girls alright, but he can't draw any other type of woman. He also apparently can't spend 30 seconds googling how a pleated skirt works. Or how people sit on chairs. And then there's panels like this:
Really? Did nobody spot this? Not a single person?
Credit where it's due, though: Alex Sollazzo is a fine colorist. As others have noted, the lighting in this comic is moody and atmospheric, and really well done.
All in all, while claiming to be a mashup of Runaways and Lost, Morning Glories is instead proving to be a low-rent version of Brubaker's Fatale (which, ironically, is more narratively and artistically respectful to its main female character, a literal femme fatale). I'm only reading the next one 'cause it's sitting right next to me. Maybe it'll get better?
Morning Glories, you and I, we're not friends. Here's why.
Narratively? We're in a holding pattern from Volume 1, and it's getting obvious. There are no answers. None. Only questions. And quite frankly, it's not clever, or fun - it's annoying. There's no sense of discovery for the reader as things slowly make more sense, because things NEVER make more sense. From panel to panel the writing is fine, but I'm really dubious about the overarching plan. Maybe it's just that the pacing is poorly done, but that's a real problem when you're asking readers to stick around not just for one book, but for multiple volumes.
(And just because I'm getting petty and nit-picky, why is "fuck" okay to say in its verb form, but not as an exclamation or expletive? And on a less petty note, why the FUCK does writer Spencer think it's okay for a female teacher to seduce a 16 year old, when he went out of his way to talk about how horrifying it was for a male teacher to do the exact same thing in the same volume???)
Artistically? It's weak. It's weeeaaaaaak. And I mean that on an imaginative level more than a technical one. Eisma can draw sexy school girls alright, but he can't draw any other type of woman. He also apparently can't spend 30 seconds googling how a pleated skirt works. Or how people sit on chairs. And then there's panels like this:
Really? Did nobody spot this? Not a single person?
Credit where it's due, though: Alex Sollazzo is a fine colorist. As others have noted, the lighting in this comic is moody and atmospheric, and really well done.
All in all, while claiming to be a mashup of Runaways and Lost, Morning Glories is instead proving to be a low-rent version of Brubaker's Fatale (which, ironically, is more narratively and artistically respectful to its main female character, a literal femme fatale). I'm only reading the next one 'cause it's sitting right next to me. Maybe it'll get better?