Morning Glories #25 Review


It’s been an interesting journey for this series and its plethora of characters but as this mammoth issue arrives is it still offering a compelling story?  Read on to find out.

The official description from Image:

DOUBLE-SIZED 25th ISSUE – and the Season One Finale! Featuring three interconnected covers by rising superstar RODIN ESQUEJO!

No matter how you slice it the Morning Glories Academy is one of the strangest and dangerous places for kids to attend.  Up until this point we’ve dealt with a lot of information that has more or less informed the audience enough to keep all of us thoroughly entertained and thankfully this issue proves to be more of the same.  The mystery is the hook but what the creative team delivers simply goes beyond that.

The script by Nick Spencer is enthralling as it spins a yarn that offers a lot of question born forth from some complicated but addicting answers.  From the first page to the final panel the seasoned author handily crafts something special while paying that right amount of attention to both the stellar pacing and the cast caught in the middle of it.  In all honesty it impresses me how he’s able to handle this rather expansive crew and the various pieces of this tale while successfully yielding a romp that’s slowly but surely building to something more than the mere sum of its parts.

Joe Eisma continues to deliver on the art, as he creates a beautiful and hypnotic atmosphere that can offer images that will haunt the dreams of eager fanboyrs or fangirls.  His pencil strokes easily build around the narrative allowing this story to exist with a level of competency that just would not be possible without his contributions.  His renditions of faces can seem a bit stiff but at this point it’s clear to anyone who picks this up that this is all part of his unique vision.

Morning Glories #25 is an example of a comic book that’s literally a crescendo.  For that reason and by the power of this creative team behind it this title comes highly recommended.

4.5/5

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