Morning Glories Volume 2: All Will Be Free TPB [2011] by Nick Spencer

MORNING GLORIES VOLUME 2 TRADE PAPERBACK

The second trade paperback of Morning Glories spotlights on the individual characters of Casey, Zoe, Hunter, Ike, Jade, and Jun and their previous lives prior to their admission to the Morning Glory Academy. Each of the students has a connection to the mysterious Abraham who has visited four of the kids in the past. Abraham met Zoe in Mumbai, gives Hunter a watch to keep track of time, covers up a murder for Ike, and rescues Jun from a fire. Pieces of the puzzle slowly are pieced together however the complete picture is not understood. Nick Spencer however has set up a beautiful story on the level of the former television series Prisoner and Lost.

COMMON PHRASES

All Will Be Free

The Hour of Our Release Draws Near

For A Better Future

ZOE

Amanda asks Zoe to join the Cheerleading Squad however Zoe needs to go through an initiation of three very personal questions. Zoe reveals her earliest memory was watching her father murder her mother. She also reveals covering up a murder with her cheerleader friend Sarah Price. The last question Amanda asks is “Who is David?” Amanda reports everything to Miss Daramount who planned the three questions. Zoe finds out about Amanda’s betrayal and murders her.

HUNTER

Hunter asks Casey out of a picnic at 5pm however we learn he has trouble with time and he is always late. He always sees 8:13 instead of the correct time. After Hunter gets a CAT scan, we learn there is something unusual with his brain however someone is covering it up making it look psychosomatic.

Hunter is late for his date with Casey because is kidnapped by two bullies and Jun’s twin brother. We learn the two bullies are beaten by an unknown girl with hangs them by their wrists and rips out their intestines.

JUN

Five years ago both Miss Daramount and Mister Gribbs visit the Japanese home of the twins brothers Jun and Hisao. Miss Daramount and Mister Gribbs discover Hisao was both at 23:59 on the Fourth of May so they decide to take him to the Morning Glory Academy. Mister Gribbs kills their mother Mrs. Fukayama while Hisao switches shirts with his brother Jun because they believed Hisao wore a blue shirt. Miss Daramount sets the home on fire while Abraham rescues Jun who he thinks is Hisao.

JADE

Jade has been having usually nightmares so she volunteers to hang herself in class. She slips into another world where she meets her older self giving her cryptic messages. Later she wakes up at the nurse’s office and we are aware she knows everything about the Morning Glory Academy.

IKE

Gribbs reveals that he knows Ike killed his own father and will open the gates of Morning Glory Academy if Ike kills for him. However Ike refuses Gribbs how Miss Georgina Daramount seduces him and he agrees. Gribbs takes Ike to kill Abraham who is Ike’s father.

MISS LARA HODGE

Miss Lara Hodge returns to Morning Glory Academy after going underground to a secret lair. She discovers a series of unsolved murders at the Morning Glory Academy.She confronts Miss Daramount who is revealed to be her sister and a guidance counselor. Miss Hodge gives Zoe a gun for safekeeping, meets Jun, helps Jade get rid of her nightmares, promises to help Hunter tell time, and confronts Casey to tell her she can bring her parents back.

RECOMMENDED – 4 OUT OF 5