As the mystery series continues to spin its literary yarn, has its dedicated audience begun to lose interest in this diverse cast of characters and their nightmarish academy?  Read on to find out.

The official description from Image:

“… And There Is No End.”

The double-sized conclusion to the Season 2 Premiere!

Ever since the new season began this series has felt like it’s been injected with a rush of momentum. Dedicated audience members may still be lost in the landscape of the greater narrative, but its almost inescapable how essential each moment feels.  It’s as if the creative team has created a summation of their time here that exists as a station of sorts.  And even as everything steps forward to embrace what’s coming followers are sent back to begin to understand the context behind all of this.

What Nick Spencer does right with the latest script is simply create enough emotions to hook his audience.  It’s what’s kept this series largely accessible, because even when things get really weird people still find a way to look a character in the eye and feel their pain.  It’s that innately human connection that makes this puzzle one that’s worth solving even in its most confounding sequences.  My only real complaint is that the teases toward some semblance of an utter realization of everything about this academy are painful to behold and it left me seriously wanting more.

Joe Eisma handles the art once again and as always his work is exemplary.  He finds a way to properly convey these complicated situations found within the confines of these pages without sacrificing the muscles beneath the experience. When the written word calls for it, the pencil work is more than up to the task as the talent offers up renditions of dream scenarios, time jumping and of course the occasional school wide mutiny.  In short: the art is awesome and worth the price of admission.

Morning Glories #28 is a superb piece of fiction that continues to sell more than enough to keep me enthralled in this expanding but strangely less confusing puzzle. Highly recommended.

4.5/5