Meet the Morning Glories

No, I’m not talk­ing about the chick flick star­ring Rachel McAdams and Har­ri­son Ford.  Morn­ing Glo­ries is a new comic book series from Image, and it kicks much ass.  Story cre­ator Nick Spencer describes it as ” Run­aways meets LOST .” I have to admit, that got my atten­tion right away.

“Morn­ing Glory Acad­emy is one of the most pres­ti­gious prep schools in the coun­try. But behind it’s hal­lowed doors, some­thing sin­is­ter and deadly lurks. When six bril­liant but trou­bled new stu­dents arrive, they find them­selves trapped and des­per­ately seek­ing answers in a place where noth­ing is what it seems to be.”

So far, it feels a lit­tle bit like if the kids from Cruel Inten­tions attended Sun­ny­dale High, minus the mon­sters.  There’s plenty of mys­tery, the super­nat­ural, and teen angst served up LOST style.  Joe Eisma’s art­work is smooth and vivid, and really brings the stu­dents  of Morn­ing Glory Acad­mey to life.

The char­ac­ters seemed a bit arche­typal at first, but I quickly got over that when I real­ized how much fun I was hav­ing just flip­ping through the pages. Besides, how can you not love first impres­sions like these:

I can already see this comic turn­ing into a movie or TV show.  Despite it being a blend of very famil­iar ter­ri­tory, it has enough style and per­son­al­ity to stand on its own, and more impor­tantly, it’s get­ting rave reviews across the comicverse.

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