The Seasons #2 // Review
Autumn Seasons in in some other place in some other time. She doesn’t know where she is, but she knows that she’s been there for fifty days. She knows that much because she’s been keeping track of things in her journal. She also knows that she is approaching the Sarcophagus of Elucidations in The Seasons #2. Writer Rick Remender continues an engagingly weird adventure in its second outing with artist Paul Azaceta and colorist Mattheus Lopes. Remenber and company allow the Seasons sisters a bit more time to explain themselves in another engaging adventure across some thirty pages or so.
It’s going to be a bit of a challenge, but she’s making it to the Sarcophagus (which looks like a tall temple) on the back of a motorcycle. So she must be making good time if nothing else. According to what Autumn quotes, the Sarcophagus of Elucidations is a bit of a tightrope. “You must both accept the guard’s offer...and decline it.” So Autumn if going to have to do a couple of things at once as she approaches a giant gorilla-looking guard at the top of a vertiginous set of stairs. She needs to make a deal with the guard and be a total paradoz at the same time. What’s the worst that could happen?
Remender balances out the weird with the familiar. The story isn't really bothering to introduce itself to the reader all that well. It's got too much going on. This would be really frustrating where it not for the fact that the writer is doing such a good job of, keeping all four of the title characters, completely engaging and interesting even though they were all quite busy but their own things. Each one of them is very distinct. One of them is very interesting and fun to be around for a few pages. It's one of them after a different season. How could that not be fun?
Azaceta he is doing wonderful work with the setting. The atmosphere in the background of every panel feels really well thought out. It would be all too easy to cram the background of anyone of these panels with a lot of detail. The artist does a really good job finding the right kind of balance. it all comes to the page again a very clever and very sharply defined way that feels both immersive and expressive at the same time. Each of the sisters has her own distinct personality that is amplified by the art and the color on the page.
Remender and company are settling in for what seems to be a very long haul. We're just now introduced to all of the characters all of the main characters by the end of the second issue. And the clarity of what it is that's going on isn't totally revealed yet. It's still being whimsically weird. But it's being whimsically weird in a way. That's actually beginning to deliver the intensity of the conflict that will drive everything. It’s sharp stuff.
