Low #25 Review

Writer: Rick Remender / Artist: Greg Tocchini / Image My sense of time has been very much untethered for the majority of 2020, and one of the things that is certainly not helping this fact is that Low #25 is the penultimate issue of the series coupled with the fact Low #1 was one of the first comic books I ever got in single issues when I became a comic book reader in 2014. The imaginative world of undersea living as brought to life by Tocchini’s magnificent artwork, and Remender’s writing was one of the few non-Big Two series I opted to read when I was first getting my metaphoric sea legs. It’s safe to say that I’m a little nostalgic for the series. But to be fair, the series has earned its place in my heart.

It certainly does help that the themes of family, hope, and trying to find a better home in the ruins of a crumbling self-destructive society that faces another world-ending event has somehow managed become aggressively more timely as the years have passed, and it feels like Low manages to balance the bleakness of survival with a gritted optimism. Stel’s journey has taken her across the desolate wastelands and uncovered several truths about the world at large, and still, she manages to look forward. She manages to show a stalwart level of determination to save the remnants of humanity despite the great personal tolls she has had to pay. And she and Della find themselves in one final fray, things aren’t looking great. But as Stel’s narrates over the skirmish, Remender’s…