Low. Volume 1, The delirium of hope

Format:

Book

Title:

Low. Volume 1, The delirium of hope

Other title(s):

Delirium of hope

Author:

Remender, Rick author

ISBN:

9781632151940

Publication:

Berkeley, CA : Image Comics, [2015]

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.

Number in series:

VOLUME 1

General Note:

"Originally published in single magazine form as LOW #1-6."

Summary:

Millennia ago, mankind fled the earth's surface into the bottomless depths of the darkest oceans. Shielded from a merciless sun's scorching radiation, the human race tried to stave off certain extinction by sending robotic probes far into the galaxy to search for a new home among the stars. Generations later, one family is about to be torn apart in a conflict that will usher in the final race to save humanity from a world beyond hope.

Reading Level:

Rated M / Mature.

Subject(s):

Undersea colonies -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Voyages and travels -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Genre:

Fantasy comic books, strips, etc.

Comics (Graphic works)

Fantasy comics.

Graphic novels.

Science fiction comics.

Science fiction comic books, strips, etc.

Added Author:

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" One of the top books of theyear..." -- Kirkus

Millennia ago, mankindfled the earth's surface into the bottomless depths of the darkest oceans.Shielded from a merciless sun's scorching radiation, the human race tried tostave off certain extinction by sending robotic probes far into the galaxy tosearch for a new home among the stars. Generations later, one family is about tobe torn apart in a conflict that will usher in the final race to save humanityfrom a world beyond hope.

Dive into anaquatic fantasy like none you've ever seen before, as writer Rick Remender( Fear Agent , Uncanny Avengers ) and artist Greg Tocchini ( LastDays of American Crime ) bring you a tale mankind's final hour in the cold,deathly dark of the sea.

Collects Low #1-6.

Author Notes

Rick Remender is the writer and co-creator of comics such as Fear Agent, Low, Deadly Class, Tokyo Ghost, Death or Glory, The Last Days of American Crime, Black Science, Crawl Space, A Righteous Thirst for Vengeance, Night Mary, The Sacrificers, The Scumbag, Seven to Eternity, Last Christmas, The Holy Roller, Napalm Lullaby, Grommets, and more. For Marvel he has written titles such as Uncanny Avengers, Captain America, Uncanny X-Force , and Venom . He's written video games such as Bulletstorm and Dead Space , and worked on films such as The Iron Giant , Anastasia , and Titan A.E . He and his wife reside in Los Angeles raising two beautiful human monkeys.

Reviews (1)

Library Journal Review

Millennia in the future, with the sun expanding and dying, the last humans reside at the bottom of the ocean. With their life-sustaining technology finally failing, their leaders have given in to drugs, debauchery, and despair. Then, Stel Caine receives a message from a returning, malfunctioning space probe that has discovered another inhabitable world-but to retrieve that planet's location, someone must ascend to the Earth's uninhabitable surface and find the probe. So Stel lifts herself out of a decade-long grief caused by the splintering of her family and begins a quest that everyone else considers hopeless. Stel believes in the "law of attraction"-that reality is directly shaped by human consciousness-giving the story an unusual inspirational (though not overtly religious) philosophical underpinning. -Tocchini's art is sketchlike and occasionally awkward, but his coloring is wonderful; appropriately muted in tone while at the same time lush and expressionistic, whether depicting amazing technological and natural undersea vistas or highly charged scenes of drama and violence. -VERDICT A larger-than-life epic quest, adult in its portrayal of sex and nudity; absorbing and recommended.-S.R. © Copyright 2015. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.