Low: Before the Dawn Burns Us | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Review
- Michaela Raschilla
- May 1, 2020
- 2 min read
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Low: Before the Dawn Burns Us
Written by Rick Remender
Art by Greg Tocchini
Published November 2015 by Image Comics
My initial feelings?
*pained groan* THE ART IS SO GOOD. IT IS SO GOOD YOU GUYS. YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. I have said, again and again, if Tocchini sold prints I would buy them all. I need them.
Now I have a friend who has said that he doesn't trust comics whose art is outstanding because often the plots can be over shadowed by this. This may be true for some comics but I have always found that while this art is painfully gorgeous it only adds to the story being told. There have been few comics that I feel every brush stroke adds to the story. Figures in the background having their own plot, or doing things that would eventually show up in the main plot. The tiniest detail can have great importance. Some might find it distracting, but for me, it is so important.
As far as the plot goes, I don't want to spoil the first volume if you haven't read it. I have to say that watching the story unfold for characters we haven't seen for a while was interesting.
The first issue in this volume has one of the most heart breaking endings I have read in a while. It perfectly embodies what I feel Low does so well. It shows a post apocalyptic world as it could be in many different forms. Each of the cities have taken a different aspect of the horrible side of human nature and upon realizing the futility of it all and the mortality of their race have fallen into depravity. This new city has such an interesting way of going about it. Not only is it interesting world building but the world building has shaped the characters. These worlds are not without consequence. It isn't just Remender flaunting his imagination, as I feel is the case with Black Science, the world building is pertinent to the characters and how they live their lives, their beliefs, their morals, it all comes down to where they grew up.
Everything leads into something else.
If you aren't sold on the art, or perhaps are over sold, know that this story is so well crafted. Pieces of it are woven together in such a way that I can do nothing but applaud it. This comic has everything I could want and more. I am sure that it is my favorite comic of the year and I wish more people would read it. I have all of the issues and both of the volumes so that I can lend them to people. Please pick it up if you haven't already.
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