Morning Glories #7 Review

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In just seven issues Nick Spencer and Joe Eisma have crafted a fairly unique, vastly intriguing and mysterious title with Morning Glories. It's one of the best creator owned books to launch last year and it has had a consistently strong story. That continues this week as Spencer shifts his focus from the group to just one, Zoe. This is her issue, we learn a little bit about her past but all the while Spencer wraps it up in more mystery and you leave with more questions than you entered with. Which is not a bad thing at all. As well as focusing on Zoe they also show a little more of the academy. The evil, murdering establishment has a cheer leading squad for example, no surprise there then some high schoolers would say they are the epitome of evil douche-bags. So they fit in well at MGA. 

Zoe is still pissed at not being clued into on Casey's plan from a couple issues ago and stomps off to find more 'popular' friends. She finds the head cheerleader and we learn that she used to be one in her old school. This issue is all about learning how Zoe ticks, she is shown as a child in India where she witnessed her father murder her mother and already has some scary abilities, she accidentally killed a teacher at her old school and covered it up. All this information she gives voluntarily when prompted but when asked the question 'Who is David?' she bolts. All this was a facade perpetrated by the higher up's in the school, seemingly to find out who David is. The last thing we learn about poor little orphan Zoe is that her first murder may have been an accident but the next one? Not so much. Whoever David is she definitely doesn't want to talk about him. 

The thing I love about this book is just how much Nick Spencer manages to suck me in, then he delivers a great story that often leaves me scratching my head and yet I still go back for more every month. That's a staple of great writing, I don't need to know everything, I don't even have to have my question's answered, I just want to be entertained. In this respect Morning Glories  is certainly living up to the comparisons with the stellar Lost that have been thrown around since the book launched. Eisma's art is servieable again, not perfect but there is a massive amount of potential there and it's never what I would call bad, just inconsistent in parts. His characters look great though and they definitely fit the setting well. I like the direction the series is taking and I hope we will get some more issues focused on the single characters so Spencer can flesh them out for us before revealing more of the over arching plot.

Writer - Nick Spencer
Artist - Joe Eisma
Colors - Alex Sollazzo
Letters - Johnny Lowe
Cover - Rodin Esquejo
Publisher - Image Comics