In ninth grade, I had the world’s worst science teacher, Mister Hickey  (f’real, that was his name).  He seated the class alphabetically because he was too old to remember his students names.  And every single day, the same thing would happen.  I would ask him a question that made me the guy sitting next to me laugh, and Mr. Hickey would say “Stone, do you want a detention?  Then shut up.  Stanton, you’ve got a detention.”

I don’t think he made Stanton stay too often for detention, and I don’t think I served a detention once in my illustrious public school career.

When I escaped Sandwich High School (f’reals, piscespaul can back me up on this) for a fancy boarding school, I eventually found myself getting detentions for not finishing work, distracting people in class, etc.  But at not point during my fancy boarding school detentions, did any of the teachers fill the room with water in an attempt to either extract information from me or drown me.

The school in Morning Glories is not fucking around.  And neither are Nick Spencer, Joe Eisma, or anyone else involved in this series.  I hope Image can focus more on getting creative teams like this one, and Layman and Guilorry’s Chew, instead of focusing on universe continuity titles like (ugh) Image United and (sigh) Guarding Of The Globe.  I don’t have the figures to back this up (sorry, Conor), but at least in my store, they’re having a lot more success with introducing new creators and fresh ideas than establishing a universe where Spawn, Savage Dragon and Invincible can coexist.