Seasons #9 // Review
Spring is in the attic with Summer. Spring is investigating a few things. She’s looking for the sword. Summer has a rather distasteful word for what she’s doing: rummaging. She’s rummaging through the attic when her elder sister clearly has other more important things to get to. Spring is trying to get Summer to take some interest in something other than herself and save quite a few people in the process, but that’s going to be particularly challenging when Winter takes over in Seasons #9. Writer Rick Remender continues an enjoyable dark fantasy with artist Paul Azaceta and colorist Mattheus Lopes.
Everyone’s looking into their own mirrors until they’re not. The snow falls and there’s a new force that’s overcome everything: Spring and Summer’s sister Winter. What happens when the melancholy artist takes over everything? It’s a hipster gothfest ruled-over by an autocratic artist. Spring and Summer are going to need to visit their sister to snap her out of what it is that she’s doing, but her estate is so exclusive that they’re going to need an invite to her next gallery opening before they can get anywhere near Winter. They’re a couple of very. resourceful people, though and...they ARE sisters of Winter. How hard could it be to get in?
Remender manages three different central characters and moves them around at the page in a way that feels really fun. To anyone from a temperate climate knows the difference between the different seasons. And so the characters are very familiar as they are archetypes that are based on stereotypes of women and the different seasons. And though that could be really tedious, the writer makes it quite a bit of fun to move in and around everything and to feel the way the fantastic drama unfolds.
Azaceta had such an interesting grasp of the drama and the fantasy. Really aren't very many very final lines. Everything is delivered in a style that render is a great amount of form and texture with just a few lines here and there and they aren't really even very elegant lines, but they're really expressive lines. So as a result it feels remarkably well articulated even though it feels so very, very sketchy. And so it's a little weird saying how old that place out. It's a little weird seeing exactly how the visuals move. And it's all framed really well on the page. There are some really interesting angles that the action takes.Lopes’ color add an enchanting pastel sort of a field to the world in question.
By the time of the ninth issue, it's apparent that there really isn't really going to be very very much of an opportunity for all four sisters to just sort of get together and hang out. And they're all bouncing off of each other in different directions at different times. And it can be a lot of fun seeing that happen. But it would be really cool to see this. Be a four character ensemble at some point in the future if they can all just sort of settle down and get along with each other.
