Review: ‘The Seasons’ #7 Jump Into Action
by Benjamin Hall
Summary
Fighting delusions is hard! Yet, this is exactly what the Seasons sisters have to face in order to attempt to save their town from a delusion-inducing carnival. However, only two sisters are free and on the run from the carnival. Can they stay free and save their town?
Overall
8/10Writer Rick Remender creates a relatively strong script. Though his characterization has a division to its focus since part of it relies on a monologue. Not to mention one line of dialogue seems to come out of nowhere. Still, the characters seem to stay true to how they act in previous issues. Despite that messy bit Remender does a nice job at ramping up the action with this issue. He also does great with making a certain moment where the villains do something feel logical. However, this is thanks in part to artist Paul Azaceta’s exceptional artistic skill.
Azaceta arguably conceives of a more suitable design for this issue with cover A than artist Nick Klein does with cover B. This is because Azaceta’s work is just what buyers can expect for the interiors and is more suggestive of the actual narrative. Yet, Klein has an active design with a larger sense of realism. Nevertheless, both are high quality pieces of art. One can also say that both covers have a lot of depth and great texture.
When it comes to the interiors by Azaceta there is one moment that could use more depth. Though how any artist would be able to accomplish this task without needing to completely redo the page is a mystery to this reviewer. Azaceta shows off an amazing ability to display large and small moments within an action sequence. While his line work continues to be confident. Lastly, he has to employ a lot of minimalism while retaining enough detail in order to keep drawing the attention away from the ongoing monologue.
Colorist Matheus Lopes applies a wide enough range of hues to the narrative that most readers should feel the appropriate emotional beats. Lopes also does a commendable job with applying these colors to the most chaotic elements in this issue.
Lettered by Rus Wooton does nearly perfect at positioning the text boxes for the monologue while not colliding with the word balloons. Wooton also does the best possible job when it comes to trying not to crowd out the art.
The Seasons #7 is out now from Image Comics and Giant Generator.
