Enjoyed reading Bryan Lee O’Malley’s “Seconds” over the course of a day. April owns the physical copy which is immaculate in publication quality, and we share a bit of a bond over reading Scott Pilgrim together. “Seconds” follows Katie, a chef who helped establish the titular restaurant, who was struggling to get her own restaurant “Lucky’s” off the ground and had resorted to walking around while tripping on red mushrooms that had the ability to remedy any one specific issue within Seconds. Katie was able to see house spirits, like Liz, but she often ignored their demands.
“They change things, Hazel.”
Bryan Lee O’Malley’s writing and art style formed a whimsical setting that tackled challenging and dark adult themes. Katie learned to deal with moving on from a past success that was owned by someone else, with wanting to fast track her next project, with giving up control while allowing others to handle her worries and desires. At its core, “Seconds” is about dealing with one’s problems instead of wishing them away.
“Don’t you want to try?”
Consequences become worse every time Katie takes a mushroom to redo an issue she has with Seconds, where the effects are incurred by the book’s side cast including Seconds waitress Hazel, Katie’s ex-boyfriend Max, Seconds manager Raymond, Lucky’s business partner Arthur, and Katie’s current-fling Andrew, among other background characters, where Katie’s reactions to these effects act as the catalysts for the plot’s constant forward motion.
Other-Katies were abandoning their worlds in the same manner that Katie was changing hers. The witch was, spoiler alert, another house spirit taken from Lucky’s who mirrored Katie’s story; consuming others' worlds in place of their own. Liz and the house spirits symbolize how one must take care of their house, how ignoring one house was unable to substitute another and how using substances of any kind to ignore one’s issues affects those in one’s life.
Thank you for reading.
Until next time,
Allen W. McLean
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