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The Seasons #1-4

by Rick Remender

Summer, Winter, Spring and Autumn are the Seasons Sisters, the daughters of the world-renowned Seasons Detectives. Ten years ago, their famous parents disappeared. Left to raise themselves, the sisters formed an unbreakable bond. Now that bond is tested as the sisters fall prey to sinister forces. The youngest sister, Spring, is the last hope of saving them from a fate worse than death. Will Spring be able to piece her shattered family back together before it’s too late for them all?

Rick Remender (Deadly Class, The Sacrificers, Grommets) and Paul Azaceta (Outcast) weave an elevated tale of whimsical horror unlike anything ever experienced in comics and it all starts here! Perfect for fans of BOUNDARY-BREAKING HORROR in all forms.

In the tradition of Miyazaki, The Adventures of Tintin, and David Lynch, this is the first exciting and unnerving chapter of the highly acclaimed hit series, The Seasons,exploring themes of fame, obsession, and sisterhood through a dark fairytale lens.

Collects The Seasons #1-4.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Fantasy, Horror, Graphic Novels Comics, Fiction, Mystery

112 pages, Hardcover

First published June 18, 2025

About the author

Rick Remender is an American comic book writer and artist who resides in Los Angeles, California. He is the writer/co-creator of many independent comic books like Black Science, Deadly Class, LOW, Fear Agent and Seven to Eternity. Previously, he wrote The Punisher, Uncanny X-Force, Captain America and Uncanny Avengers for Marvel Comics.

Reviews

[Jayson · Rating 3 out of 5]

(B+) 78% | Good
Notes: Quite unique, antique mystique, a ton of quirk and charm, albeit plight's a bit too light: more snare than heavy harm.

*Progress updates: Preamble ◦ Issues #1-2 ◦ Issues #3-4

[Andrew Sorrentino · Rating 2 out of 5]

Chapter one: something bad is going to happen. Chapter two: something bad is going to happen. Chapter three: something bad is going to happen.
Chapter four: that bad thing we told you about? It’s happening to the most narcissistic witch you’ve been introduced to. That art and colors are nice.

[Oscar · Rating 3 out of 5]

Something Wicked This Way Comes vibes with beautiful artwork and colors

[Anna Quilter · Rating 3 out of 5]

interesting enough and a certain uniques style in the artwork.
with only the first four issues collected here..the storyline doesn't move along too much...but enough to keep me interested.

[Serena]

nothing really happened but its so gorgeous

[Valéria. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not what I expected, but still finished nicely surprised. Need more. As soon as possible.
Remender again came up with something original and interesting, yet known to many. Evil carnival, and shattered family, eh? I’m in.

[Larakaa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Intriguing premise, I hope it doesn't go exactly like the last couple of Remender stories.

[Ed Erwin · Rating 4 out of 5]

The evil carnival is coming to town! That's a hook that never fails to catch me.

[bryce · Rating 4 out of 5]

matheus lopes is one of the best colorists in the game.

was this bonkers in the good rick remender way, yes. will i be back for vol 2. yes.

[Laura · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5 stars

I read this volume all in one sitting before comic club. The first issue is youngest sister Spring chasing a letter to showcase her personality and antics and get a feel for the town, this was a silly goofy time that was too drawn out. The synopsis indicates that the sisters have a tight bond, but that did NOT feel like the case at all throughout this volume, more like the family has somewhat fallen apart and over the course of the story the sisters will have to come together and believe in each other and deepen their bonds to combat the evil. This has the trope already of 'only Spring can see the truth' and because she is the youngest it's leaning into that tired "all adults are idiots" trope. The art style felt somewhat 70s and coloration and style, certain panels were vivid and interesting but many of the other other panels felt untidy or unfinished, overall I didn't particularly care for this visually. Also I felt that there were a couple of shots that somewhat sexualized a 14 year old Spring-- that came across as creepy to me.

This entire volume felt like it was setting up the story and not really starting it or diving into it. I did not feel invested by the end and was not attached to any character. Upon reading some other reviews I agree with one that said they felt like they were being told a story from a basic concept, that the storyline had not been outlined or had purpose. I also agree with comments saying that the setting felt nebulous and that there was no arc within this volume and therefore it ended awkwardly and affected the pacing. I also agree with the review that said that this volume poorly established any conflict, tension, or stakes.

[Justin · Rating 4 out of 5]

This comic is fascinating, in that I'm not exactly sure what I think about it. It's surreal and whimsical and dark with really cool art by Paul Azaceta. Feel like I have to read more, though.

I'd say 3.75 stars in the end.

[Rick Ray · Rating 2 out of 5]

The Seasons Sisters are the four daughters to a pair of world-renowned detectives who have long since gone missing. Aptly named for each season, Summer, Winter, Spring and Autumn could not be any more different, though their shared trauma keeps them bonded together in tough times. Years have passed, and as Autumn explores the world, she learns of an existential evil in the form of a creepy traveling circus that threatens the city her sisters live in. Warning Spring, the youngest of the Seasons, about the impending doom, the story largely follows Spring as she attempts to get her sisters to believe her and keep them all safe.

The story has a manic energy to it, largely lent by Paul Azaceta's frenetic pop art wonderfully colored by Mat Lopes. Though some of the panels have a bit too much of an untidy look to them, the vast majority of the book is simply gorgeous. Remender's plotting matches this janky energy well, with a flimsy premise held up largely by a whimsical and fantastic set of circumstances. Unfortunately, just the four issues here do a poor job establishing stakes and conflict, so you're left wondering what the point of the story is. Conceptually, this feels strong, but the lacking depth feels like an execution issue.

[Elodie Drt · Rating 4 out of 5]

Une intrigue captivante, un personnage principal maladroit et attachant, on ne peut qu'adorer cette BD. J'ai hâte de lire la suite !

[Isabel Davison · Rating 3 out of 5]

Loving the art style and coloring, but am left feeling unsatisfied. Very slow moving concerning plot despite the fast pace the characters move across the panels. Would definitely read more. Interested to see the horror element that people have talked about in here because I didn’t see any of it. A small judgement I would have is that the character of Summer is so cliché, and so when the bad thing that they’ve been warning about the whole time starts to happening to her, you don’t really care at all. A 3.5 rounded down.

[Freddie🏳️‍⚧️🐀 · Rating 3 out of 5]

The art and the colorful 20's setting is great. However this series took a WHILE to get going. Mind you I read this month by month. The newest issue that's not in this volume is already very good, however the series suffers from incredibly slow placing which kills the whole comic. The end of the first arc is when it really gets going. The first issue is meandering and it's not really till issue 3 that we really get a grasp of the comic at its finest. Way too much padding. The art makes up for it. I don't hate this comic I just wish I didn't have to wait a month for the story to veryyy slowly progress.

[Dean · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read the first three. The art and colours are good. Not always for me, particularly the evil carnvial/circus.

I hate the trope of one character sees what's really happening and no one believes them. It's so frustrating.

The first issue had an unusual way of showing us the world without complete exposition; the main Character chases a letter through the city. I grew tire different it after a couple of pages.

Not for me.

[Brandon · Rating 4 out of 5]

7/10

An interesting premise that has hardly revealed much of itself at all in the first 4 issues. I like the colorful traveling circus and the eerie performers who seem mythical in their size, speech, and mannerisms. I do wish I understood the mystery a little better by this point, though. The art is cool at least and the writing is clever. Just the plot progression is vague and slow.

[Kevin · Rating 4 out of 5]

This volume was just world building so we can assume that subsequent issues start filling out the story.

[Mohan Vemulapalli · Rating 4 out of 5]

"The Seasons" presents a visually stunning and immersive experience as four sisters named after the seasons are drawn into a sinister conspiracy. Expect strong visual elements, a careful juxtaposition of horror and humorous elements, and a compelling and unfolding mystery.

[Catherine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting concept, great art. I struggled to root for any of the characters besides Spring and she was just so put upon that I couldn’t really enjoy her either. I think I would like this better if the sisters weren’t such bitches.

[Andres Pasten · Rating 3 out of 5]

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[Online Eccentric Librarian · Rating 3 out of 5]

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This is a story that feels hard to pin down: the art is beautiful at times and then really uninspired elsewhere. The story doesn't reveal much and feels very much like it was written from a nebulous concept rather than as an organic fleshed out tale. There just wasn't a lot here that grabbed my attention.

Story: The four Season sisters are all very different: 14 year old Spring views her older sisters with an impish quirkiness that they find annoying. Winter is the manic depressive older artist, Summer is a vain fame obsessed movie star, and Autumn is a world explorer. Young Spring lives with Winter and does a job as a courier to pay the bills that her artistic temperament sister doesn't bother. But when Autumn warns Spring of an evil circus coming to town to get the sisters, Spring is hard pressed to get her sisters to believe.

I have to admit, this feels to much like something that sounded interesting on paper but never really morphs into a compelling story in action. There is a long chase scene of a letter by Spring that is there to introduce us to the world without having to resort to exposition - but it is boring and feels dragged on by the second page. Similarly, the characters also sound like concepts that when realized never really morph into interesting or organic individuals. They remain concepts: quirky grounded Spring, arty temperamental bore Winter, vain self obsessed Summer.....Very two dimensional.

The art is fantastic in areas and then almost Bazooka cartoon level in others. I liked several of the panels and the colors were very bright but then whole pages were very uninteresting. At times, it felt like all the time/effort went into a few pages, leaving the rest as rush jobs or by a different artist.

The setting is nebulous and certainly the evil circus setting has been done ad nauseum. There is some mystery here but it is so loosely presented that it is really hard to get a feel for this graphic novel. This first volume doesn't really complete any arc and ends abruptly. We don't even get a reason why the evil circus is targeting the sisters at all. Reviewed from an advance reader copy provided by the publisher.

[Alex Sarll]

Remender writes some comics I like, some which annoy me intensely, and a bunch (generally his biggest hits) where I don't connect with them at all. So whether I give a new one a go depends on the art, and hopefully that Art Nouveau meets mid-twentieth-century poster cover explains why this made the grade. Nor do Azaceta and Lopes disappoint on the interiors, where we're introduced to a slightly sideways Europe as it ought to have been that sits somewhere between Bandette and Kiki's Delivery Service, young Spring Seasons on a slapstick chase after a letter that keeps just evading her grasp. Except...you remember how one thinks of Kiki in terms of its joyous beginning, but then it gets dark and sad? This speed-runs that; all those chaotic antics have consequences that come black to bite Spring. The letter is from her missing sister Autumn, an explorer and/or reporter, warning that something terrible is coming, but middle sisters Winter (manic-depressive artist, yet also the voice of crushing realism, refusing to believe anything out of the ordinary might happen) and Summer (narcissistic model, one dimension at most, entirely hateful) won't listen, no matter how many times the sinister carnival Autumn warned of break into their house. Obviously there's a topical metaphor here, people blindly determined to go about their regular lives and ignore the looming apocalypse(s), but I never quite bought these particular metaphorical embodiments of that as believable characters, and it seems barely a twist away from the dilemma Remender wrestled with in the powerful but exhausting Low, and also I only just watched the film of the daddy of all scary carnival stories. On the other hand, did I mention that the art is incredibly pretty?

[Joey Nardinelli · Rating 2 out of 5]

I’ve read a few GNs by Rick Remender at this point (pretty sure I got to wherever Black Science ended? Definitely read Tokyo Ghost), and while I tend to like his works building, I usually was kept barely hanging on by some interesting characters. Here, everything feels so bizarre and cartoonish even before we get much time at the carnival that I had a really hard time finding a place that was grounded in something I could attach myself to as a reader. Spring and her sisters all feel very one-dimensional in these first four issues, and we get very little time with two of them before they face consequences for reasons we don’t fully understand still. Based on the second volume scoring a little lower so far than this first one (I assume based on responses to the individual trades), I’m not sure I’ll return for the rest of this.

[_sweetshelves · Rating 4 out of 5]

Le principe de la saga Les Sœurs Seasons me plaît beaucoup : à chaque sœur sa saison et, si j’ai bien compris, à chaque tome son héroïne ? Dans ce premier opus, nous suivons Spring, la plus jeune des quatre sœurs — maladroite, spontanée et pleine d’entrain. Le début de l’histoire s’ouvre sur une note burlesque, rendant son personnage immédiatement attachant.
Au fil des pages, on découvre toutefois que le ton se fait plus grave qu’il n’y paraît : un danger plane, et la légèreté des premières scènes laisse place à une tension subtile. Ce tome reste encore assez introductif, mais il pose solidement les bases de l’univers et de l’intrigue à venir.
Enfin, j’ai adoré les graphismes, à la fois colorés, expressifs et pétillants — un véritable plaisir pour les yeux !

[Travis Duke · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars as it has a slow start. I love how eclectic Remender is, and his creativity is always noteworthy. Season is a fantasy world with 4 sisters who are the seasons. There is some mysterious past elements and a good plot. I liked the characters but it is a really slow start with too many pages devoted to Spring chasing a letter, wasted space to me. Anyways I like it, I look forward to vol 2.
Art is good but not amazing to me.

[Venus Maneater · Rating 3 out of 5]

Feels like a big, fat and overflowing love letter to Eurocomics. A fantasy world in which adventurous and talented parents breed adventurous and talanted children. Nepo heroism

The art is colorful, dynamic, beautiful. The characters are gimmick-ey and cute, but flat. Then again, they never really went deep into the personals of Tintin, either.

The story moves very slow and there are only so many beautiful pages to keep my attention.

[Craig · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hard to know how to rate this. Not much happens in these first four issues and the plucky young Spring Seasons is very annoying after awhile. The art is topnotch and the coloring is excellent. But other than some ominous warnings that something bad is about to happen, that's about it. I'll be here for the next volume, but I hope it gets better...