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I continue to be utterly enamored, amazed, confused and blown away by this series. It's like Lost meets Fringe meets every time traveling, time-effecting show/story meets every single group of confused, scatted kids with secrets. I read Vol. 3 & Vol. 4 together right back to back so they are getting one big review together, because pretty much the storyline is all blurred together now.

I have so many feelings about Abraham & Ike reveals, plus Abraham vs. The Academy (and the fact there are kids being trained in each for something, for each other). The whole allusion to Job was amazing. The continual spin of the Head Mistress vs. Her sisters (and who is on whose side, whether good is something you say or something you do). All the display's of "Faith" this time, with the hands and with the fire in a classroom were amazing touches.

The Casey story, back and forward, and back again, was amazing (and I hope Vol. 5 takes us back to her New York part, too). Someone needs to tell me if the thing about Zoe is for real-for real, because we've totally had people come back from worse already? Jade, both young and old, continues to be the most amazing all around. I totally called the second to last page of Vol 4 and who had rigged everything we've seen and everything that needs to be done: Gold Star me.

I'm wanting more issues already, but I must wait hopefully. ( )

The story still jumps around all over the place, but this volume was easier to follow than the last, and it seems that things are finally coming to a head Unless the time thingy they did at the end just plunks people back where they started and undoes everything that happened in this volume-if that turns out to be the case, I will be sorely vexed. I really want Gribbs to stay dead, for one thing.
I'm still on board and wishing for the next volume. I'd really like to know what is so special about these kids and how the faculty have the amount of power they do. ( )

???????????? ( )

If I had more time to spend remembering who was who, and who were the good guys, perhaps I might like this more. But here's where I stop: 25 issues in, and all we know about the Morning Glories Academy is that it is run by some netherworldly demon, and the other characters know some Bible stories. The plotline revolves around like a Moebius strip -- sometimes entire pages are repeated from prior issues -- and it's hard to tell whether you're in the past, present, or future. Still great art, although with the cast expanding (oh, we now meet the class that went through almost the same "experiments" the year before) some of them are starting to become hard to differentiate.

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LT Haiku:
More secrets in school --
Loyalties challenged as plans
don't work (or do they?). ( )