Art was great. Premise was intriguing. At about the halfway point, the story got kinda messy.

It’s the end of the world and grey aliens are secretly among us collecting seeds of our doomed species or something dumb like that. A journalist unearths a human/alien romance and ponders whether to tell everyone because THAT’S what people apparently care about when facing oblivion, huh?? Doesn’t make sense - sounds like complete nonsense? Yeah it’s an Ann Nocenti-scripted comic alright! So my choice in picking up The Seeds is probably going to be most people’s choice: do you love David Aja’s ar...

Well, that took forever to finally be published... I’ve had the first issue since 1st August 2018 and the TPB that replaced issues three and four just came out today: 13th January 2021... which is incredibly annoying BUT was it ultimately worth the wait?Eh, kind of.The artwork, as you’d expect from David Aja, is gorgeous; beautifully composed, expertly delineated, all that jazz; as well it bloody should be after taking over two years to produce just four issues. As a freelance artist myself, I h...

David Aja's art is brilliant but it can't save this cobbled together mess of a story. Grey Aliens are on Earth gathering "seeds" to sell once Earth finally goes caput. It's a dystopian Children of Men type world apparently with 90's era technology. One of the Greys falls in love with a human and knocks her up. That's when a journalist for a tabloid picks up their story. There is also some thread with dying bees and mechanical bees to replace them. And in one scene the impregnated woman is naked

The story was a bit dull but the art by Aja was perfect.

Nocenti and Aja are outstanding talents, and their pairing here should be absolute magic. But The Seeds is a mad jumble of ideas and tone that is so fragmented that it never comes together in a way that makes a lot of sense or provides a compelling narrative. The plot holes in this one are huge and numerous, the tone and direction seem almost indulgently cynical, and the long time it took for this one to come together suggests that maybe it would have been better left on the discard pile.

David Aja's work in this is enough of an incentive to pick this up. Masterfully drawn.

Well worth the wait! I’d read the first couple of issues of Seeds and then got this collection to finish the read. The end result was imaginative and thought-provoking. The plot concerns aliens sent to a dying earth to make a buck by collecting seeds, who end up going native in banal, disturbing, and bizarre (and human) ways; a forbidden romance; a woman with an empathic connection to bees; a journalist caught between telling the truth and selling content; conflicting scientists, and people tryi...

Giving this 3 stars hurts so much. The Seeds has a lot to say and doesn’t really develop much of what it sets out to do. This book should’ve been more focused on one or two of the multiple main ideas throughout. It’s a bit too scattered for me. I do however, love the art, presentation and construction of the story. The duo tone art in the traditional base 9 panel grid gives the book a perfect visual style. David Aja really is a master, there are several pages that stopped me in my tracks. The bo...

Cautionary and post-apocalyptic in a way, yes, but also with a buzz of hope that runs throughout. I am relectuant to tell you anything other this: The Seeds is funny, bleak & melancholy in all the best ways, and Aja's art complements Nocenti's tale for this exact moment in the real world in a perfect dance of storytelling. A deeply satisfying read.

THIS BOOK IS WARPED It is somewhere in left field: on Mars! The ins and outs; the ups and downs make you dizzy. I honestly can't tell you if I like this or not. I think I did. But I am not sure. It is convoluted and straight forward. The subject is simple: humans + technology + life = one messed up and dying world. Add in some interesting "farmers," gas masks, and lack of technology over the wall and you have yourself a... thing. Something called a graphic novel. Something called a book. Somethi...

After being reminded by the TV Hawkeye credits (for which he wasn't even credited) what a good eye David Aja has, I had a renewed interest in checking this out, but in places I wondered if it was one of those times when an artist decides to deliberately play to their weaknesses by way of training. Which can be a commendable exercise, but isn't necessarily a lot of fun for the audience. Yeah, the setting for his Hawkeye work could be scuzzy, but it was alive, filled with humour and verve. Here, t...

The Seeds is a graphic novel in search of a purpose. It's a jumble of ideas, that never really coalesce into anything recognisable.It's the near future, and wouldn't you know it, it's gone all dystopian (not unlike our real dystopia). The Earth is dying from pollution and humanity's abuse. The bees have had it, and are leaving. People in the city need to wear gasmasks when they venture outside of their homes. Some kind of militarised police walk the streets. A significant group of people have ha...

As the world crumbles and humanity gets more dependent on tech, some people forsake technology and form their own community. When Astra stumbles upon the story of the century, she finds there's more to the Luddites than meets the eye...I've been a fan of Ann Nocenti since her Daredevil and Kid Eternity runs and David Aja knocked me for a loop with his art on Hawkeye but I had no idea what they'd cook up together. It was a little late but I finally picked this up when the trade dropped.The Seeds

I saw this on a "Best of" list a couple of years ago (I think it was) now and thought, "Wow, that looks good." Unfortunately, first impressions and all that. This really is a bit of a mess. A bunch of cobbled-together, ecologically-based storylines that don't really connect. In one, a group of extraterrestrials right out of Close Encounters (the big-eyed, skinny variety) are mining the Earth for seeds, which will become worth much more when things finally go belly-up, as they are threatening to

This comic is under 200 pages and yet so much happens that other books spend a hundred issues to achieve. The story compression here works well because the writing and art respect the reader. They know how much info fits in a panel narratively and visually. This might be one of the best comics about journalism and cli-fi. I wanted more issues, but the ending works so well that nothing else needs to be said on the themes of resilience, decay, and grief the book handles with care and craft.

This was a surprisingly deep graphic novel about climate change.

The world is dying, aliens have come in secret to harvest the last bits of humanity, and one tabloid reporter is spending the last days of humanity writing gossip about aliens and humans sleeping together. Remember that line from the Matrix films about how humanity is a parasite? Yeah, imagine that, but mixed with Children of Men and you get some sort of environmentalist alien apocalypse story that mixes up some dry dark humour as the world tears itself apart trying to find an answer.The best ti...

I think the themes and concepts for this book were there but to me, it felt like there were 200 pages missing from the entire thing. There is little to no explanation of what is happening so I was left so confused by everything beginning to end. I wish too there was more character development as well as more developed relationships. We saw that certain people were close and cared about each other but it just left me wondering why because we had hardly seen them interact during the novel.Sometime...

"They make you the thing, you might as well be the thing."A dying Earth is the battleground for a war between nature and science. Outside the city wall is 'the Zone' which has been claimed by Neo-Luddites, an area in which no technology is allowed and people try to live a traditional, rustic existence. They believe that over-reliance on our gadgets has led to ruin. In the city gas masks are a common accessory due to the toxic air. Society is fractured, sickness and poverty all around.Then came t...