Low #2 Review

Writer~ Rick RemenderArtist~ Greg Tocchini   Ahhhh. Issue number two.  I remembering looking the cover art to issue #1 and thinking, “Wow. That’s awfully pretty.” And then looking at the cover art for the next issue,  issue #2 and making a face similar to this:   [divider type=”space_thin”]But I digress. I told myself to go ahead and read the issue before making any judgement. So here we go: There was a time jump here, folks. ten years have passed since the events that took place in Issue #1. Ten years  since Shel and Johl, the parents of three children who live under the sea in the mega city and the tragic events that left them ambushed, the girls taken and Johl with serious injuries.

  Ten years and Shel is at their home, living in the past and still choosing to surround herself with her family–what it used to be. Flashbacks reveal to us that Shel and Johl stayed together after the attack the girls and that left Johl’s life hanging in the balance. He was heavily injured and their ship was just barely hanging together after being breached. This issue shows us that of Johl’s last moments with his wife and Shel telling promising that she would survive and find their girls. Ten years later, present time the only family that Shel has is her son Marik, who stays busy. Too busy nowadays as the version of the cop to take her calls on a regular basics and visit her.  She feels confident in telling him that she wants to go search for the girls, who Marik does decide …