Seasons #10 // Review
Spring and Summer are looking for a sword in an attic. It’s a big, cluttered mess. There’s a lot of stuff up there. Summer finds the sword, but Spring is reluctant to let her keep it. Spring’s a little girl. Summer’s a grown woman who had become something of a celebrity. Spring’s been doing a lot on her own. She’s hesitant to trust Summer with something that could save the world. Spring and Summer are going to have a difficult time getting along in Seasons #10. Writer Rick Remender and artist Paul Azaceta continue a charming family fantasy with colorist Matheus Lopes.
Getting the sword is only the first hurdle that Spring and Summer are going to have to get to. They do have invitations to Winter’s big shindig, but they’re going to have to work together in order to get everything to come together and find Winter’s mirror so that they can shatter it with the sword. How are they going to find their way through a big soiree without being seen by their sister? And what are they going to do once they’ve found the hand mirror that they’ve been looking for? Whatever happens...it’s pretty clear that Winter is going to be more than a little bit upset about it all.
Remender continues a classic fantasy that mixes traditional fairytale wear something altogether darker, and altogether more personal. The three sisters present continued to have an interesting dynamic which serves as the emotional part of the series. Much of the central story continues to be seen for the eyes of Spring, who is clearly the most responsible of all the sisters. It's an interesting allegory about the youth being those most motivated to change things but having the least authority with which to change them. Interesting stuff.
Azaceta’s Toulouse-Lautrec-inspired art continues to serve the script quite well. What appears as though it might be a scribble is actually a really deaf expression of something delivers mood, tone, texture, and so much more. Such a classy feel about the whole visual reality of the series that continues to show a very distinctive presence on the page. There really isn't anything else quite like it on the rack right now. So much of the best fantasy feels like some weird dream on the other side of possibility. Azaceta’s art really transports Remender’s script into a dreamy kind of fantasy reality.
Ten issues in and it's pretty clear that there's actually quite a bit of cinematic depth to what Remender and company I'll bring them to the page. It's more than just a superficial fairytale fantasy with dark overtones. There's a lot more going on here than the surface and level adventure of it all. Didn't really seems like it's moving somewhere and it really feels like it's moving somewhere profound. There's a lot of depth for the four sisters of questions to it will be interesting to see where the series chooses to take them next.
