Low #7 Review

writer: Rick Remender / artist: Greg Tocchini / Image Comics Welcome back! I was starting to wonder when Low was coming back and lo and behold — here it is! It’s certainly been a while, the series finally collected into its first (and hopefully many more to come) trade paperback and I’ve been so hyped to get back into reading this gem of a comic. If you need to, read up on past reviews of older issues here before you jump into the newest one. I opened the first pages of Low #7 to a a jarring start, looking for familiar faces and finding none. Instead we find new ones, a new location but the same mindset of hope being squashed out and people being at the complete mercy at others and finding none. Welcome to the Second city, one of the last underwater cities remaining on Earth. It is named Voldin and it’s a frozen world that is going through its own similar slide downward, as did the city that Stel and her family called home once upon a time. We are also introduced to one Della Caine. Della, who is featured on the cover (What a cover! I’ve missed Tocchini’s art and I’m glad to know others have been stunned by it as well — read the fan letters in the back), is crouched high up on an impressive robotic bear that she uses as transportation (and hunting criminals?). She is lithe and deadly. Volatile without an ounce of grace.

And while she’s not Stel, she’s made a hell of an impression on me this first issue out. Our first story arc has ended with Marik dead, Tahjo deserting her…