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![]() Cover of Low #1 | |
Publication information | |
Publisher | Image Comics |
Schedule | Monthly; complete |
Format | Ongoing series |
Genre | |
Publication date | July 2014 – December 2020 |
No. of issues | 26 |
Creative team | |
Written by | Rick Remender |
Artist(s) | Greg Tocchini |
Colorist(s) | Greg Tocchini (#1–7) Dave McCaig (#8–26) |
Low is an American post-apocalyptic science fiction comics series written by Rick Remender and drawn by Greg Tocchini. Low was published from July 2014 to December 2020 by Image Comics, for a total of 26 issues.
The series is set billions of years in the future of the Earth after the start of the Sun's expansion into a red giant has made the surface uninhabitable. It follows the lives of the two million survivors in the underwater city of Salus; its helmsmen, the Caine family; and its pirate enemies. The protagonists of the first issues are Stel Caine, who searches for life-supporting planets with robotic probes, her husband Johl, and their children. Remender summarized the story as being about "one woman's optimism in the face of inevitable and true doom". [1]
The first issues of the series received critical praise. In Paste magazine, Robert Tutton wrote of the "primal, silent awe" inspired by Tocchini's "surreal" and "dazzling" art. [2] In IGN, Tres Dean noted the creators' "complex and intriguing worldbuilding and precise, emotional character work", as well as Tocchini's "impeccable and breathtaking" art. [3]
Title | Material collected | Publication date | ISBN |
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Vol. 1: The Delirium of Hope | Low #1–6 | March 2015 | 1632151944 |
Vol. 2: Before the Dawn Burns Us | Low #7–10 | November 2015 | 1632154692 |
Vol. 3: Shore Of The Dying Light | Low #11–15 | October 2016 | 163215708X |
Vol. 4: Outer Aspects of Inner Attitudes | Low #16–19 | September 2017 | 1534302298 |
Vol. 5: Light Brings Light | Low #20–26 | January 2021 | 1534305041 |
Low: Book One | Low #1–15 | October 2017 | 1534302433 |
Low: Book Two | Low #16–26 | August 2021 | 1534319202 Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: checksum |
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