Morning Glories. Vol. 3 : P. E.
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Collects: Morning Glories 13-19.
REVIEWS & SUMMARIES
Library Journal ReviewSummary / Annotation
COMMUNITY REVIEWS
It could be a great series. But it's not.
submitted by eknapp on January 27, 2013, 10:39pm
[Slight spoilers]
More flashbacks, now interspersed with other flashbacks and current events in different locations, all at the same time. With few or no signals as to which what-where we're looking at. Weak. Zoe is mean to Hunter and keeps stabbing people. Hunter has a crush on Casey, who spurns him but that's okay because he immediately meets a girl who's into him (for about three pages, until Zoe stabs her too). Jun/Hisao appears just long enough to be suddenly gay. Jade and Ike help Casey escape, sortofbutnotreally, and spend the time snarking a lot. Casey time travels, I think, which would explain how young Jade was hanging out with Old Jade in volume two.
I hate to keep harping on the "Lost" similarities but the resemblance is uncanny. A lot of the plot turns seem to exist not for narrative reasons, but to crank up the artificial-mystery dial. I'm seriously doubting that Spencer really knows where all this is going. My expectations are now officially low enough that I'm not planning to finish the series.
I almost gave P.E. an exasperation-driven two stars, but the writing is just so sharp and the art is just so satisfying... I'm quitting Morning Glories due to the plot failures, but I can't bring myself to rate it that low.
PUBLISHED
Berkeley, CA : Image Comics, Inc., 2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: 1 v. : chiefly col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language: English
Format: Graphic Novel
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781607065586
1607065584
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Eisma, Joe.
SUBJECTS
Gifted teenagers -- Fiction.
Conspiracies -- Fiction.
Graphic novels.