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A review by billyjepma
The Seasons Have Teeth by Dan Watters
adventurous
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
2.75
I was really into this at first, continued to be in when the writing kept reiterating the same message ad nauseam, and I would’ve been in until the end if it actually had an ending. Instead, the repetitious narration droned on about guilt and grief and then ends abruptly without resolving anything, without finding some conclusion to its thoughts on change and death—it just ends. And it doesn’t even feel like an intentional abruptness, either. It bummed me out because I was really enjoying what Watters was doing, as blunt as it was. Using the four seasons as a metaphor is a cool enough idea, but turning those metaphors into lumbering, terrifying behemoths that leave death and destruction in their wake is not only cool but interesting, too. Especially with the art from Cabrol and Jackson, which is steeped in moody atmospheres that contrast beautifully with the sharp, unsettling colors the Seasons bring to the page when they make their fateful appearances.
I was leaning toward a 4-star rating for this until the final pages, which took the wind out of the story’s sails so suddenly that it nearly sunk the whole thing. There’s still something here, though, and the art alone was enough to make me glad I spent the time reading it. But man, with a little more time to breathe, it could’ve been so much better than it is.
I was leaning toward a 4-star rating for this until the final pages, which took the wind out of the story’s sails so suddenly that it nearly sunk the whole thing. There’s still something here, though, and the art alone was enough to make me glad I spent the time reading it. But man, with a little more time to breathe, it could’ve been so much better than it is.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief
Moderate: Animal death, Cancer, Death, and Terminal illness
Minor: Fire/Fire injury