Clowns, chaos, and calamity strike in The Seasons #7, as Spring escapes a multiversal circus tent, but its evil clown tendrils reach out to snatch her. After the gripping and visually inventive sixth issue, Rick Remender and Paul Azaceta take things back to the real world in a chase issue that is hard to put down. With Winter on her side, can Spring spring into action and save the day?
The Seasons #7 opens where we left off, as Spring has just exited the circus tent and Winter has come to her aid with her trusty motorcycle. Winter finally believes Spring something screwy is going on, but there’s little time to discuss as striped tendrils burst from the tent to drag them both into the gaping maw of the tent’s opening. The two narrowly escape, but the clowns give chase.
While the action is taking place, Remender writes captions conveyed as if they are notes from a journal, from some future. They give context to the scene from the perspective of someone who wants to make sure people believe it really happened. The juxtaposition of the chase and action works well with the captions, which are calm and measured. They also build towards a cliffhanger that makes it abundantly clear Spring is the hero of this adventure, and even her super-smart sister Autumn knew it.
The chase is on!
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Once again, Azaceta does exceptional work with the action, drawing your eye and making the striped tendrils very scary. The use of framing draws the eye in interesting ways, like when Spring jumps off the motorcycle and we see over three panels her rolling off into the distance. The panels suggest she’s on her own and taking charge.
Speaking of which, this issue makes it abundantly clear Spring is a great hero, risking her own neck to save the baker in town. For much of the series, she’s come off as a kid who’s optimistic, but also a bit bumbling and incapable of being the valiant hero. Not so by the end of this issue.
Being an action-focused chase issue, there isn’t a lot of room for plot progression and character work. There is a nice check-in on Summer, but aside from that, it’s the cliffhanger that progresses what comes next the most. That isn’t to say this is a dealbreaker, especially when read in the collected edition, but the plotting doesn’t feel entirely balanced for the single-issue read.
The Seasons #7 is a breathless, action-first chapter that cements Spring as the heart of the series, pairing Remender’s inventive narration with Azaceta’s dynamic visuals. However, its chase-heavy focus comes at the cost of deeper plot advancement.
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