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    Low Vol. 1
    Low Vol. 1
    Low Vol. 1
    Ebook179 pages4 minutes

    Low Vol. 1

    By Rick Remender and Greg Tocchini

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    Millennia ago, mankind fled the earth 's surface into the bottomless depths of the darkest oceans. Shielded from a merciless sun 's scorching radiation, the human race tried to stave off certain extinction by sending robotic probes far into the galaxy, to search for a new home among the stars. Generations later, one family is about to be torn apart, in a conflict that will usher in the final race to save humanity from a world beyond hope. Dive into an aquatic fantasy like none you 've ever seen before, as writer RICK REMENDER (BLACK SCIENCE, Captain America) and artist GREG TOCCHINI (Last Days of American Crime) bring you a tale of mankind 's final hour in the cold, deathly dark of the sea. Collects LOW #1-6.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherImage Comics, Inc.
    Release dateMar 25, 2015
    ISBN9781632154231
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    • 3/5
      Graphic Novel Bookclub October:

      A really great story but with some really problematic art that constantly confounds the reader to what is actually being shown. I'd love to read more, but that would require me to put up with the art and I'm not sure I can do that. (I did it for Dark Knight Returns, etc, and that was hard enough.)
    • 3/5
      The story within Low is reasonably pedestrian. Humans in hiding from an impending disaster. Most have given in, only one has hope. We've seen this in many incarnations from Superman's beginnings on Krypton through to I Am Legend.

      And, to be honest, the writing can be a little heavy-handed. Count how many times the word "hope" is woven into the conversations.

      The art, however, is where I'm truly conflicted. It's gorgeous, it's liquid and flowing as it should. The women are beautiful, the villains are nasty, the creatures are interesting, the tech is wondrous.

      But the art--which reminds me of past greats like Frank Robbins, Howard Chaykin, Neal Adams, Mike Kaluta, and P. Craig Russell--is also complex, confusing, and hard to follow for a sequentially laid out story. Sort of how I used to describe a family member's handwriting: beautiful to look at, but impossible to read.

      For all that, I'm still along for the ride, at least for one more.
    • 4/5
      Gorgeous artwork depicting a far-future underwater society coupled with writing which sounds like therapy. A strange combination but it works. Solar radiation has forced mankind to cities at the bottom of the oceans. The sun is going to die and all in the city of Salus have given up hope except for Stel Caine, who thinks that an interstellar probe has returned which has information about a habitable world beyond the Solar System. Stel is married to Johl who pilots a hereditary mecha suit which he uses to hunt food for the city. Everyone thinks Stel is mad or even dangerous for persisting with her 'hope'. Events in this book test that hope at every turn.
    • 2/5
      This was just frustrating to read. The story got so confusing at times and it felt long winded and drawn out, but also very boring. Some of the speech patterns used by characters made it it difficult to understand and I had to re-read them a few times to figure it out.I didn’t care for the constant sex scenes, naked women, or mostly naked women through out the whole story. Men were covered up but all the women were pretty much naked all the time.Nothing ever really felt like it was explained, it took awhile for me to realize this was taking place underwater and not on some distant planet. (I didn’t read the synopsis beforehand, I was initially drawn in by the cover art.)The art, while the cover was beautiful, and if looking at each page as a standalone the art is gorgeous, but being used in a story it made it very rough to read. There was always so much going on that i couldn’t focus half the time and at some points I honestly couldn’t tell what was even happening in the frame.Overall it was just a low meh for me, not something I would jump to continue reading.
    • 2/5
      I don't think this is for me. There wasn't much I solidly liked.The world itself in this series has the potential to be exciting, but unfortunately, it's not developed or explored enough. I liked the coloring of the art throughout but had mixed feelings about everything else about the art. some pages I was like 'whoa this is beautiful' and other pages I was like 'is this good? I can't tell.'The story itself didn't do much for me. I didn't care for any of the characters, which made it hard for me to care about the plot. Gratuitous sex and violence don't generally bother me, but the amount of male-gaze happening and the objectification of women left me feeling kind of disgusted. Is it too much to ask for creators to not treat women as sexual objects? Yes, including sex workers. That whole thing is kind of where the book turned sharply south for me.I feel like a one-star is too harsh, but I had to force myself through the last issue and a half in this volume, so I will not be continuing this series.
    • 4/5
      Humanity is living in underwater cities to escape the radiation of the sun, but Stel Caine never gives up on finding other life-supporting planets or, after an attack, her family. This has great world building and engaging characters. The art, however, is, although artistic, not really to my liking as I find it hard to discern what is what and who is who. I am currently undecided whether or not to continue with the series.
    • 4/5
      I picked up Low because I am a fan of Rick Remender's Black Science. In Low, Remender continues to power through family dramas set in scifi worlds. In Low, the world is a future Earth where the sun has enlarged, the waters have risen, and humans have fled to a sub-sea level existence. The air is vanishing and civilization is falling into a decay reminiscent of the fall of Rome. But there is hope in the form of a probe returned from its thousand-year voyage with the possibility of a new world to be civilized.

      Rick Remender is the king of kinetic energy. Every panel has a sense of urgency and movement. And Greg Tocchini's artwork is like a modern Frank Frazetta, both sensual and strong. Like the story, though, the art is often lurid and clouded at the same time. Not everything is obvious. This is perhaps the comic's greatest fault for me as a reader. In a world where things don't always make sense, sometimes it is hard to pick up on the visual story. Each panel demands attention and interpretation. Individually, each panel is something you can stare at for hours. In a story, though, you need to move through the page quicker.

      Overall, though, Low highlights why Rick Remender is one of the best science fiction thriller writers in the comic book world, if not the best at what he does, which is keep you reading until the end and then wanting more.
    • 4/5
      Many years in the future humanity has retreated under the water to shelter from the sun's radiation. Now the cities under the sea have lost their hope, but one of the probes they sent has returned and someone should go to see if it has answers or hope. Stel Caine goes, still mourning her lost husband and children, with her son, hoping that this will make a future she can be proud of.It's an interesting, bleak read, very french in styling and art-work. Not bad but not something that I'd look for again.
    • 3/5
      I really liked the writing and the story here, but...the art was of the T&A variety that annoys me; plus it had this kind of hazy, incomplete quality that kind of drove me and my eyes nuts. I kept feeling like I was missing something in the action or the image, all in all a weird, annoying effect. The color work was fantastic.

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