Low #3
"As low as you are, there is only room to rise"
Writer: Rick Remender
Artist: Greg Tocchini
Publisher: Image
Wow. Just, wow.
As a child, and even now, my favorite thing to do was to visit the aquarium. The peacefulness of the exhibits, the calming come and go of the tide, the silent motions of the beautiful and colorful fish as they glided effortlessly through a world seperated from me by only glass. It was a healing process for me. A moment of serenity I could only reach there, looking into a world that was both my own and was totally foreign. Reading Low is exactly like that: healing, moving, quiet, effortless.
For all of the preaching about the woes of man, the parrallels between greece and this aquatic and doomed world that Marik and Stel Caine live in, there is still beauty in little things. There is beauty in Stel's optimism. There is beauty in the way that Marik sees the world differently but still loves his mother. There is beauty in the way that people have survived as they have even if the end of it all is in sight. Little moments, little pushes that slowly and together are shifting the tide.
Remender's writing brings a genuine hopefulness to this doomed place. Stel, and now Marik against the world and, against eachother. The in-fighting between both the people of the dome and between Stel and Marik themselves is fitting and beautifully juxtaposed by Stel's ability to see those beautiful little moments. Those moments, propelling her and her son on this mission where danger is real, failure is a wave away and literally nobody is rooting for them. They may be humanity's last hope and nobody but them cares. This story, moving at its own pace towards something, something beautiful possibly but also possibly something dark and awful. Remender's point, it seems, is that it's all about how people see it.
Tocchini, still, again, forever, compliments that beautiful dichotomy perfectly. His art, loose and tight at the same time. Colorful and monochromatic all at once. The world written by Remender's hand is brought to life fully by Tocchini's. The end of this issue, that beautiful moment between mother and son that I won't say anything more about is simply stunning, moving, healing. For a world that's dying, it all feels so alive.
Low in elevation but not low in spirits, Stel and Marik are setting out on their journey for real now. How long will it take them? I have no way of knowing. But, I'm here for the whole ride.
Writer: Rick Remender
Artist: Greg Tocchini
Publisher: Image
Wow. Just, wow.
As a child, and even now, my favorite thing to do was to visit the aquarium. The peacefulness of the exhibits, the calming come and go of the tide, the silent motions of the beautiful and colorful fish as they glided effortlessly through a world seperated from me by only glass. It was a healing process for me. A moment of serenity I could only reach there, looking into a world that was both my own and was totally foreign. Reading Low is exactly like that: healing, moving, quiet, effortless.
For all of the preaching about the woes of man, the parrallels between greece and this aquatic and doomed world that Marik and Stel Caine live in, there is still beauty in little things. There is beauty in Stel's optimism. There is beauty in the way that Marik sees the world differently but still loves his mother. There is beauty in the way that people have survived as they have even if the end of it all is in sight. Little moments, little pushes that slowly and together are shifting the tide.
Remender's writing brings a genuine hopefulness to this doomed place. Stel, and now Marik against the world and, against eachother. The in-fighting between both the people of the dome and between Stel and Marik themselves is fitting and beautifully juxtaposed by Stel's ability to see those beautiful little moments. Those moments, propelling her and her son on this mission where danger is real, failure is a wave away and literally nobody is rooting for them. They may be humanity's last hope and nobody but them cares. This story, moving at its own pace towards something, something beautiful possibly but also possibly something dark and awful. Remender's point, it seems, is that it's all about how people see it.
Tocchini, still, again, forever, compliments that beautiful dichotomy perfectly. His art, loose and tight at the same time. Colorful and monochromatic all at once. The world written by Remender's hand is brought to life fully by Tocchini's. The end of this issue, that beautiful moment between mother and son that I won't say anything more about is simply stunning, moving, healing. For a world that's dying, it all feels so alive.
Low in elevation but not low in spirits, Stel and Marik are setting out on their journey for real now. How long will it take them? I have no way of knowing. But, I'm here for the whole ride.
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