Morning Glories #1-Image Comics-$3.99
4 out of 5 stars.
Summary:
Man opens piece of paper with “for a better future” written on it. A doctor takes him to check on a woman.
Akiko is caught passing a note in Miss Daramount’s class. Akiko put a highly explosive liquid on the chalkboard, which only needs a little pressure to explode. When Miss Daramount goes to write something on the chalkboard, everything goes kaboom.
Vanessa and Brendon are running in the hall. They kiss and then go their separate ways. Brendon seems to have found a book with something troubling in it. Then a monster man shoves his hand through Brendon’s skull.
Chicago: Sixteen-year-old Casey is about to head off to new prep school.
Manhattan: Ike and his mom are discussing his troublemaking at school and elsewhere. Somehow he has managed to get accepted by another school, after being kicked out of seven.
San Diego: Zoe says goodbye to her multiple rich boyfriends before going away to school.
Toronto: Hunter is teaching his stepbrother how to play a video game. He tells his dad goodbye, but he doesn’t seem to care that he is going.
Des Moines: Jade is writing about how she’ll miss Marcus, a man who is either her boyfriend or a teacher filing a restraining order, while at a distance her dad and her brother talk about her in not the kindest words.
Fukayama Jun is picked up at an airport. He is going to be attending Morning Glory Academy. He falls asleep in the academy driver’s car. Then, we see Jade, Hunter, Ike, Zoe, and Casey all in their separate rides with the driver and they all miraculously fall asleep.
When Casey arrives at the school , she is greeted by Miss Daramount. Behind her, academy staff are removing a dead body and the monster man also lurks behind her.
Zoe, Ike, Hunter, and Casey are all in a classroom together. Ike hits on Casey. Zoe snubs Hunter. The teacher has a projector set up. Two images that stick out on the projection are one of a man slitting a goat’s throat in front of a child and another that says “for a better future.”
Ike, Hunter, and Jun are roommates. Casey, Zoe, and Jade meet their overly ethusantic R.A, Pamela. Jade realizes that her notebook is missing and calls her dad to ask him to mail it to her. Jade finds out on the phone call that her dad has forgotten who she is. Hunter and Casey literally run into each other in the hallway. Hunter begins having a crush on Casey, even though she’s not looking for a relationship.
It also turns out that everyone has the same birthday, May 4th, which in the comic is the current day. The only person who doesn’t know her real birthday is Zoe, because she was adopted.
Casey talks to Pamela about the weird birthday thing and about Jade’s dad not remembering her. It turns out it is all standard procedure at Morning Glory. If students’ parents don’t act like they don’t know you, they will make them. Casey’s parents weren’t up to this task, so they killed them. Casey finds this out when Pamela leads her to a dungeon with their dead obviously tortured bodies.
Writer (Nick Spencer): Even though the comic is at first hard to follow, because of the multiple storylines in the comic, Spencer is still able to draw the reader into the story because people want to know what is really going on at this mysterious school. Although some stuff is not explained, the readers can make some of their own conclusions on the left-out info from the info that is provided.
Illustrator (Joe Eisma): Eisma’s drawings definitely bring the characters and the sick twisted nature of the school to life with each little pencil line that he created.
Cover Art (Rodin Esquejo): The cover is good, but the kids look like their 13 or 14 not 16 or 17.
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