Low #8 Review

writer: Rick Remender / artist: Greg Tocchini / Image Comics Low is one of those titles from Image Comics that really makes me thankful that there’s comics outside the superhero genre that comics are known for. Not that I’m dissing superheroes because that’s initially want drew me into comics but every time I pick up an issue of Low, I am reminded of all the the infinite possibilities you can see through the medium that are graphic novels and comics. I’ve always considered this very book a sleeper hit because I don’t see too many people in my circles reading it but I wouldn’t say it is at all unpopular. In fact, I count it as a book that as gorgeously illustrated as it is realistically sure to depress you. Hah! You must be looking around asking just what type of review you’ve stumbled upon. I’m fan of this comic, let me assure you. I’m still a little stuck on describing in words just what it is that pulls you. That lures you in. That drags you down into the story. Just what is it about this comic that brings you low–deep into the pages of the superb little story and keeps you attached to the characters and the plights they face? Do we see ourselves in Stel, a woman who previously, didn’t feel she had much to lose–who now feels like lost everything? Her sole purpose of igniting hope cause caused her to question her life’s path now that she feels she’s lost what little family she had left? Or do we see ourselves in Marik or Tajo, Redemption arcs fulfilled but at what cost? An…