Morning Glories, #24

[CBR News]

In the double-sized "Morning Glories" #24, Nick Spencer and Joe Eisma concentrate on Ike in a story that uses its larger canvas wisely, moving between past and present, building towards a foreshadowed but still shocking extended ending crescendo


Full article here.

[ultraaman]

Thanks for keeping the spotlight on this amazing series. I wish more people were reading it.

Can't say I was dying to learn about Ike, because I knew we would eventually have to slug our way through the victimization of Ike's younger years so we could see how good little Ike ended up being such a douche. However, if we had to have that kind of story at least it was handled as best as I think it could have been.

The one part I diverge from on your review is that the issue to me did not really make much use of the extra pages. I think the story could have been tighter and we could have gotten some bits about some other plots. Minor gripe except for how the ending of the previous issue left me on a cliff that I'm still on!

"Eisma's skill with facial expressions, body language and narrative pacing doesn't fail to impress in this scene." - Right?! Def not enough credit for the expressiveness of the art. And consistent to a T. This is how comic book art is supposed to be done.

[Supajoe]

"Eisma's skill with facial expressions, body language and narrative pacing doesn't fail to impress in this scene." - Right?! Def not enough credit for the expressiveness of the art. And consistent to a T. This is how comic book art is supposed to be done.

Wow, thank you very much!!

[bubble_chunks]

I wish reviewers on this site would provide a sentence or two to explain the concept of the comic books they review. I know nothing about this Morning Glory series and clicked the link hoping to learn a bit about the book.

Instead it was just a vague over-view of some character named Ike. Now I'm less interested in following this series than I was before I read the article.

[Filip]

Terrific review. I especially like the closing sentence.

I just caught up with this, since I exited after #20. The ending was not entirely predictable, but was pretty close to, seeing how Ike couldn't care about his father, but in reality that kind of kids always lash out in jealousy against the people who're "greater" objects of affection of their parents, since they're supposedly "occupying" their love.

In start I didn't particularly like how bare some scenery, and without detail it can be (is it the scripter's direction, or just artist's own volition) quite empty, but I really appreciate facial expressions and body language Eisma is able to convey with minimum lines. He just excels at it.

I wish reviewers on this site would provide a sentence or two to explain the concept of the comic books they review. I know nothing about this Morning Glory series and clicked the link hoping to learn a bit about the book.

Instead it was just a vague over-view of some character named Ike. Now I'm less interested in following this series than I was before I read the article.

You have wikipedia articles for that. Reviewers review the issue at hand, and they are not obliged to start every review with what's the overall premise of the book they're reviewing.