In my travels as a comic book reader it isn’t often that I go into a comic expecting not to like it because of the name or the art or something and then get completly turned around. Morning Glories was one of those to the T. When I first picked the first issue of this comic up I was hesitant. With a name like Morning Glories one can really only imagine a stereotypcial female romp through fields of giggling annoyance. I am not a fan of comics that pander to female readers and hold that above telling a good story which sadly is most of the female oriented comics. But this comic, this comic blew me out of the water. I did not expect any of what was presented to me.
Morning Glories is nothing but intriguing, fast paced and brutal. The comic opens up with a literal bang right before they kill off a character that we were mislead into thinking was important. This trick is often used and some times used badly. Not here. Here it shows us details in a way that they are not leaked in such a small amount that the audience is confused while not over loading us from the start. It’s a hard line to straddle but Morning Glories did it very near perfect.
So the only time the pacing slows is the introductury of the main characters and not surprising since there are six. I am a bit hesitant on this staying as strong as it started out being just because of the size of the main cast. We have six main characters, two main villians and one mysterious transluscent killer. That’s not to mention the side characters that you can already tell will be important later on. From what I’ve got so far of the plot, the setting and the general themes this cast size is what I’m most worried about.
Firstly it’s set at a school kind of like an evil Xavier’s Insititute for the Gift which pretty much means interpersonal plotlines will be a good portion of this whole. X-men and the Justice League always ran into this problem: Some characters will get air time while others are forgotten and it’ll keep happening until the fans revolt. A non-comic example: Glee with Finn and Rachael which by the way thank you fans. Was getting a bit sick of those two.
Anyways back to Morning Glories. The problem here is the more interesting characters, in my opinion, are probably the ones that will get forgotten since they are not stereotypical sorts of leads. In my opinion those are the best ones to lead, makes life more interesting. Every character has got a standard introductury but the blonde little genius and the slut got two of the longer intros. Any guess as to why? Good we are on the same page then and all sarcasm aside.
Moving on, the language and turn of phrases in this comic make me smile. Especially when two characters literally crash into each other in the halls. Books and papers going every where causing it to become a blatant cliche. Best part here though is one of the characters refuses to look at who she ran into stating she won’t have any of the awkward will we, wont we fall in love crap. Loved each and every panel of that interaction. The comedy and pure saterical jab at any and all rom-coms played out in a way that did not cause an overdramatic eyeroll at the introduction of a love story so early on.
Morning Glories: 4 out of 5. The hesitance over the huge cast dropped it down from a full glorious 5. It can yet go up if the writers play this out patiently, eveningly and most importantly in an interesting enough way that I care in some way shape or form for every single of the main six, two villians and the one mysterious dude. Just as it can go up it can also go down, way down. For now there are twenty issues out as of now and still the series is ongoing which means in a month or two after I have caught up and gotten to a good point I shall review it again. Perhaps it goes to a full 5 out of 5. I love this premise and start so much that I am definitely hoping for the best.
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