The Seasons #12 // Review
Spring had everything she wanted. She would running her own establishment. It was fun. She was making people happy. But most of all she was making herself happy. It's all she ever wanted. And yet it wasn't real. And so she understands why everyone else is locked in their own fantasy. And she understands why it's going to be that much more difficult to get everyone else to see reality in.The Seasons #12. Writer Rick Remender and artist Paul Azaceta continue a fun fantasy adventure with colorist Mattheus Lopes.
Summer is walking through the city in full plate armor. She's also carrying a double handed sword. And in spite of there's no one really seemed to be reacting to it. They're all too busy, gazing into their own magic mirrors. Their own fantasy realities. Clearly two lost inside of themselves to acknowledge the very real danger that seems to be everywhere. All they would have to do is pry themselves away from their hand mirrors. The Seasons aren't going to meet any resistance from them. But they are going to beat resistance from the people who are responsible for the mirrors in question. In this respect, they have their work cut out for them.
The series makes its way through its penultimate chapter with a fantasy chase between the Seasons family and the villain. The writing team has a fun time, engaging the characters altogether for the first time on a full issue. The heroes have been assembled. The action continues to be appealing, both visually and conceptually. But the real focus is on the characters and who they are. It really is a character driven adventure. It's more than just a chase. On some little less a little disappointing. It would be nice to see the adventure focused on just a little bit more. But it's nice to get a closer walk with the characters as well.
The our team manages a really tight journey with getting everybody involved. The forward momentum really feels like it's carving this way across the page. It's still managed to feel very whimsical while moving things forward and engaging in the drama of the characters. It's a lot to juggle, but that our team does a pretty good job of making sure that everything is clearly present on the page. Above all, the visual feels very graceful as it glides across the page.
Of the adventure reaches his climactic chapter with the very next issue. It will be interesting to see how that particular adventure meets the page. Because it really feels like one more scene to be journey through. Extending that one scene to an entire issue kind of runs the risk of feeling may be a little bit repetitious. Or perhaps drawn-out. The creative team on the book has done such a good job of moving everything forward that it would stand a reason that they know what they're doing with respect to a 13th issue in this series. It's just hard to imagine it being quite as well paced as the rest of the series has been thus far.
