'90s Rock Legend Announces Major New Project
Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready has announced Farewellto Seasons, a project he's been working on for 20 years. The project is a graphic novel complete with an accompanying soundtrack, which he's referring to as a "rock opera," presenting a fictionalized dramatization of Seattle's '80s music scene and how it changed after grunge went mainstream in the early '90s.
"Farewell to Seasons unflinchingly shows the brutal cost it had for so many artists and musicians as it captures the lived experience of that seminal era," reads the description on its website. "The glory and the heartbreak as it asks the unanswerable question… was it worth it?"
According to the press release (via Rolling Stone), “The story externalizes the characters’ inner struggles and moments of triumphs, rendering an almost luminous manifestation in the moments where the music empowers the characters to feel that almost anything is possible, as well as the stark depiction of an oily darkness that threatens to drag them down when they are possessed by self-doubt and fear.”
How to Pre-Order 'Farewell to Seasons'
Farewell to Seasons, co-written by McCready and Mark Sable, and illustrated by Sebastián Piriz, is available for pre-order from Z2 Comics in three editions before its official release on Oct. 6.
The standard edition, which is just a hardcover copy of the graphic novel, is available for $34.99.
The deluxe edition, which includes a larger 12x12 edition of the graphic novel in addition to a vinyl LP of the accompanying soundtrack, is available for $89.99. If pre-ordered before March 25, it will also come with a collector's edition Shadow concert ticket.
For the biggest fans, the signed platinum edition is available for $149.99. It includes a signed copy of the large-edition graphic novel, a vinyl LP of the accompanying soundtrack (in translucent green!), five show poster prints, and a set of enamel pins. If pre-ordered before March 25, it will also come with the collector's edition Shadow concert ticket.