Morning Glories #10 – Review

By: Nick Spencer (writer), Joe Eisma (art), Alex Sollazo (colors), Johnny Lowe (letters) & Jade Dodge (editor)

The Story: In this Jade-centric story, the main character has a few funky dreams.  Or are they dreams?

What’s Good: This may seem a small thing, but it made a world of difference in my enjoyment of this issue: Spencer put a lot more character names into the word balloons.  A complaint I’ve had in the past with Morning Glories was that I simply forget what these kids’ names are.  But, because the characters were always introduced in this issue, I was able to free my entire brain to trying to comprehend the mysterious stuff that Spencer has going on.

When Morning Glories first launched, there were heavy comparisons to the TV show, Lost.  Those comparisons remain apt as Spencer keeps laying on the mysteries.  Sometimes you read a section and you aren’t really sure what the heck you’re reading, but in a good way.  The two weird events in this issue both revolve around Jade…..One is her having a strange lucid dream featuring her mother and the other seems to be a kinda out-of-body experience where she seems to be collaborating with her future self.  If you like mysteries in your comics and trying to figure out what the heck is going on, you’ll enjoy this series.

Eisma’s art is really starting to grow on me.  He still has panels where a character’s face kinda get’s away from him a little bit.  But, what he really nails are the body language moments that are so important to story telling.  The page where Casey and Hunter discuss their kinda relationship is a great example with the two characters doing lots of the gestures that help us understand their emotions: looking at their shoes, open armed gestures, etc.