by Kevin Gaussoin, Editor-in-Chief

“You were suffering. And I was searching for meaning in it. Meaning for me… And I found nothing.”

No matter what season of life you are living, The Seasons Have Teeth will clamp down and not let go of your deepest fears. Autumn is a warning to us all. The heat starts to leave us. Our days wane shorter. That what was only recently supple and full of life dries and grows brittle, vulnerable to a Fall.

Previously in The Seasons Have Teeth:
Andrew, a retired conflict photographer, lives a life steeped in regret, pain, and sorrow. With nothing left to lose, he risks his life to get in close enough to get close up photos of the living personifications of Spring, Summer, and now Autumn. 

Official Description:
While the Summer photos are a sensation, Autumn is a different beast altogether, and not just because the stationary lair of decay takes up the entirety of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, threatening another meltdown. It’s the time of guilt for Andrew, where his life started to wither as well, but can it do any more harm in the present than it has in the past? Readers will find out in the thrilling and timely penultimate issue before winter and the grand finale arrives!

Spring brings the horror of pollen, Summer the heat, Autumn the fall. This time, Andrew chases down Autumn, only to once again come face to face with the season personified.  How long can Andrew keep avoiding the Seasons’ teeth?

Creative Team:
Writer: Dan Watters
Artists: Sebastián Cabrol
Colorists: Dan Jackson
Letterer: Nate Piekos of Blambot
Cover: Quistinah Khalidah
Variant Covers: Sebastián Fiumara, Raúl Allén

Andrew seems to be driven by guilt to such an extreme degree that he ignores the fears that stop everyone else and chases the gargantuan horrors that are the manifestations of The Seasons to get close us photos. In The Seasons Have Teeth #3, Andrew follows Autumn into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone itself in order to collect his next photo. While stalking the Season, we learn more about Andrew’s loss and guilt. Once again Dan Watters bites right where it hurts and brings back all the guilt of our failures to have been there when we were needed. Cabrol and Jackson’s art continues to set the mood perfectly and manages to show us even more than the script seems to indicate. 

This series continues to be horrifying in simple real world human ways by telling a story set in a fantasy world where huge season monsters kill and destroy. The Seasons Have Teeth is perfectly horrifying and I simultaneously fear the end and can’t wait for the final season, like life. 

Rating:
ComicsOnline gives The Seasons Have Teeth #3 5 out of 5 bites of regret.

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