Title: Morning Glories: Truants Volume 4
Author: Nick Spencer
Artist: Joe Eisma
Genre: Sci-Fi Fantasy
Year Published: 2013
Year Read: 2013
Series: Morning Glories #4
Publisher: Image Comics
Source: Library
Content Rating: Ages 16+ (Strong Language and Gory Violence)
Introduction:
After reading the previous
three volumes of Nick Spencer’s “Morning
Glories” series, I was surprised to find myself actually wanting to read
more adventures from the Morning Glories students and I finally managed to pick
up the fourth volume “Morning Glories:
Truants,” which introduces the next generation of the Morning Glories
students!
What is this story
about?
After the events that happened in the third volume, the Morning
Glory students find themselves face to face with a group of students called the
“Truants” (which includes Akiko, Fortunato, Ian, Guillaume, Irina and Vanessa) who
happened to be on a mission to kill the creator of Morning Glory
Academy. But, will the Truants end up saving the
Morning Glory students from the school itself or will they be a much bigger
threat to the school and the students?
What I loved about
this story:
Nick Spencer’s writing: Nick
Spencer’s writing is once again full of intensity and excitement! I loved the fact that in this volume, we
actually have a better background story of the teachers Georgina Darmount and
Lara Hodge as I was wondering what their relationship with each other was
really like and how they felt about obeying their “father” about dealing with
the students. Now, even though I would
have been happier to see why the school wanted these particular students and
what they are going to do to them, I am glad to actually get a good background
story on Lara and Georgina since I could
better understand their characters. I
also loved the fact that Nick Spencer
introduced the Truants into this story as I was interested in seeing how they
would deal with the strange and scary situations going on at Morning Glory
Academy while colliding
with the Morning Glory students. I also
loved the little nods to Marvel Comics, such as some of the references to “X-Men” sneaking up in this story, like
this little exchange:
“How do you even do
that? You’re half my size. You’re a girl.”
“So sexist. It’s my special mutant power. Like Colossus!”
Joe Eisma’s artwork: Joe
Eisma’s artwork is once again extremely gorgeous in this volume as the
characters look truly realistic and the violent scenes are done so well. Call me a huge fan of gory violence, but I
loved the way that Joe Eisma drew
the gory scenes, such as people’s insides being ripped out, as they look so
detailed that I was literally blown away by the horrific situation of those
scenes.
What made me feel
uncomfortable about this story:
Just like the previous three volumes of this series, I often
had trouble keeping up with the narration of the story. As much as I like seeing the flashback
sequences for the characters’ back stories, they often get in the way of
telling the stories in the present day since they keep interrupting the flow of
the stories. Also, for anyone who does not like
strong language and gory violence, this volume has tons of gory scenes of
characters having their insides ripped out and a bit of strong language such as
the use of the “f” word.
Final Thoughts:
Overall, “Morning
Glories Volume Four: Truants” is a great volume that “Morning Glories” fans should definitely check out! Now that Season One is done with, I cannot
wait to see what will happen to these students in the future volumes!
No comments:
Post a Comment