Still Not Convinced...
Maybe I just read the first three trades all too fast or I'm just missing something but this series really isn't consistently keeping my interest. In the long run, this is only supposed to be the first fifth of the series (according to the volume page on this website anyways) but I'm not sure if I want to commit to any more, it really shouldn't take this long to get a single moment from the comic to make it all worth it.
The book does too much jumping around as if it's all building up to something but gives nothing in return which after so many issues will almost certainly lead to a let-down. Seeing as it is apparently supposed to last to one hundred issues it makes me think of 100 Bullets which was consistently rewarding readers throughout the series while building up to its big thing, something I don't think Nick Spencer has mastered here.
I'm also getting annoyed with the use of the "flashbacks from different context" technique, while this can be used to push a story forward and has been used in that way in other mediums including comics, here it is just a reprint of pages used in other issues and just becomes frustrating. If it was at least re-drawn in a different way, I could feel better about it.
The book has all the action but the motivation behind it just isn't clicking for me, the back-story provided to justify things the character's do doesn't always feel like it clicks and the characters are starting to lose actual personality as they all feel like they could do anything regardless of motivation.
I might come back for more of the series but since I have some time to let my feelings towards Morning Glories marinate until it comes out, I'm not sure whether or not I will. I usually love Image's comics of the past couple years but for some reason this one is tasting lukewarm.
