Low #1 is an awesome issue. Its beautiful and stands out as one of the best independent comic series to have launched in recent days. It would behoove you to read it, especially if dystopian science fiction is your bag. Read Full Review

Hope is the reigning theme of this book and the team of Remender and Tocchini have submerged us into a book that makes us believe that the Caines and humanity, as promised earlier, will "rise again". This two-man team has gained the reader's trust with just one issue and one can only hope Remender continues his winning streak with Tocchini continuing to conjure stunning visuals right by his side. Read Full Review

This comic doesnt look like a lot of other comics on the market. Greg Tocchinis art is entirely unique, and his bold color choices (mostly green, orange, and red) really jump off the page. The whole issue is gorgeous, but the first few pages really stand out they are intimate, and the holographic galaxy that Stel is looking at creates a really cool effect in the way its drawn over their bodies. Read Full Review

Low is going places. Its first issue takes a multitude of exposition and character building and organically fits it into a tight, efficient single issue. It's too soon to tell, but Low could end up being Remender's best Image work yet. And considering the roll he's been on lately, that's no small statement. Read Full Review

Low is, simply put, a great book. Remender is telling what appears to be a great story that is heading plcaes and Tocchini's art on this title is simply amazing. Remender wins again. Read Full Review

Low showcases a glimmer of hope in a desperate world.  With humanity sitting on a ticking clock, some have found the means to enjoy life while they can.  Johl and Stel are about to lose those means.  Now we'll see the lengths they'll go to get them back. Read Full Review

Low is very different from other stories Remender has told (as he describes in his “must read” text page at the end of the issue). The combination of Remender's world-building and story are combined with Tocchini's art and made this issue thoroughly entertaining to me with the story standing out from every other comic that I'm reading. That's a really good thing, especially when you read as many comics as I do. It's visually and thematically unique and well worth checking out. Getting to experience a series like this is why I read comics. Read Full Review

As a pessimist myself, I have great hope and optimism for this book. An impressive and ambitious start! Read Full Review

This first issue is definitely an interesting read that gives a truly new concept. It is aimed at the mature reader as it has some graphic violence and some nudity for a vast array of pages. But this all contributes to the opening of a story that is filled with potential. One where kids may be the center of it all but it is definitely not one for kids to read. It will be interesting to see where this family goes to from here as they are so closely knit even in the face of adversity. Read Full Review

Despite being a sci-fi story that promises a lot of action, it's the characters that get you invested in Low. With the sun's radiation swallowing up civilization being a thing that could legitimately happen, and in the near future, Low is an unsettling depiction of what life would be like, yet you can't help wanting to read on. Read Full Review

Remender has yet again pulled it out the bag proving to be the creator owned writer to watch. Despite it's slow paceLow‘s underwater extravaganza kicks off in a sensational way with the character depth and action being truly captivating. Highly recommended. Read Full Review

Low #1 packs a lot of world building and character into one issue. Rick Remender tackles some similar family-in-crisis territory as his other recent work, but his focus on mother Stel Caine and her unyielding vision of hope against all odds (and the odds are daunting) is a fresh spin for the writer. Tocchini's line and color art is some of his best work to date, cleaner and more refined than his Uncanny X-Force issues yet still maintaining his uniquely sketchy, swirling style. Dense in written and visual drama, the world of Low is worth taking a plunge into. Read Full Review

Yet again, Remender launches a title that is rather impressive. With so much teased and a great cliffhanger ending it is going to be a long 30 days. Read Full Review

Low is a truly enthralling comic though. It captures its tone perfectly, juxtaposing light and darkness against one another in a surreal future. It is as much about the battling ideas of its characters as it is about surviving an inevitable apocalyptic scenario. Remender's world building and Tocchino's vision combine to deliver those ideas and the story in which they exist in a truly entertaining fashion. Low #1 is a beautiful, ambitious debut that sets high expectations for future installments. Read Full Review

The first issue contains a significant amount of exposition and dialogue but its Tocchinis artwork that really stuns you. You can see his homage to the fantasy forefathers such as Frank Franzetta in the character designs and the colouring pulls you down into the depths of Low. I found myself returning to specific panels frequently to ensure I didnt miss anything but also because theyre so goddam beautiful. You can get lost in this one, trust me. Willfully lost. Read Full Review

Im onboard for the next installment of the series, to say the least. The premise if promising and it will be interesting (and probably upsetting) to watch the journey unfold following the events of this issue. If I could break the book into two parts to rate, the second half is definitely superior to the first half. With slightly better pacing and a teensy bit more concrete art, this book will likely be on the pull lists of many. Its really up to the second issue to decide whether this relatively hard-sci-fi concept can survive the murky depths and surface gracefully. Read Full Review

Rick Remender has done it again. As if the latest issue of BLACK SCIENCE this week wasn't enough, Remender now has another new series at Image, on released on the same day. Remender takes on the sci-fi genre once again and shows us a world where the surface is uninhabitable. We're introduced to new characters and dangers that will definitely keep you on the edge of your seat. Greg Tocchini's art is glorious and as you read the issue, you'll find yourself eagerly looking forward to more. Read Full Review

So much world-building leaves little time once the story-proper kicks in, forcing shit to get real across only a handful of panels. Now that this world is established and the stakes painstakingly set, I'm hoping for an issue #2 that feels free to get straight to Remender's vicious, unstinting action drawn in Tocchini's graceful hand. Read Full Review

The first issue almost tries to do too much on its own, but once the first arc lays out, I'm hoping things will be clearer and expect the whole to be stronger than the individual parts. Read Full Review

Overall, Low is off to a good start and sets the stage for what could very well be a great series. All of the elements you need for an intriguing tale are in place because you have no idea what is going to happen next. Read Full Review

With an enthralling premise, an engaging cast of characters, some fabulous word building, and a thrilling plot, this debut issue certainly delivers the goods. Read Full Review

Given the sci-fi elements, love story and focus on family, one can't help but think of Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples's Saga, and the underwater setting, apocalyptic aspect and tech designs give rise to thoughts of Scott Snyder and Sean Gordon Murphy's The Wake. If you like those books, you'll likely have an affinity for Low, but there's also a chance you'll prefer those recent Eisner winners as well. Read Full Review

All in all, not the worst thing Ive had to review recently, and Im sure that future issues will hash out some of these issues. Id say pick it up if youre a fan of Mr. Remender; otherwise, if this is what to expect I dont think many others will stick with it to a second or third issue. Read Full Review

Towards the end of the issue we get some action, but it's heavily foreshadowed early on and already have an idea of how it's going to go. Again, sometimes that stuff works great. For me, it wasn't clicking. Perhaps some people will find it refreshing that the book takes it's time and let's itself breathe in the first issue, but it wasn't really working that way for me with this title. I can totally get into dry material, or slow paced material (and I often do. I read quite a bit of Golden Age and slice of life comics), but it has to be compelling in some way. Read Full Review

Beyond even art, the issue as a whole feels a little bit rushed into production. The things I'm describing are easy mistakes, and Tocchini and Remender should both be at the point in their careers to know better. I hold out hope for this series, because I like the concept of a nihilistic fact (the sun obliterating literally everything) being turned into a story of hope, but I also feel like the workload Remender has taken on this past year is enormous and he runs the risk of stretching too thin and letting things get through the cracks. With a little tightening, though, this could be my favorite thing Remender has ever done. I'll definitely be back for the next issue, and I'm holding my breath for next month (I wanted to make an underwater joke, and that was the best I had, cut me some slack). Read Full Review

Remender's story has potential, but Tocchini's art is so hard to follow that it significantly detracts from this comic's enjoyableness. Read Full Review

Low has promise but it hasn't been fully realized yet. Considering the larger than average size of this issue, it's unfortunate that we don't get a little more here. Remender has talked about how this book is a shift from his normal status quo, but so far the futility and negativity that exemplifies his past work is still on display - it's just been presented differently. Whereas past works have featured pessimistic protagonists, this book's pessimism is in its world. And maybe that's why we see such a focus placed on the world in this first issue. It's Creative Writing 101: "Write what you know." It'll be interesting to see how Remender cuts through that safety net with Stel, the proclaimed eternal optimist, in Issue #2, but this debut only hints at its potential. Read Full Review

Low is a comic book that gives action and adventure against the futuristic backdrop. Remender's letter in the back gives the reader an idea of how the characters came about, but it wasn't until I read the letter that I realized the wife was the chief protagonist and not the husband. There are a lot of pieces here to like but I'm not sure how everything fits just yet. This is worth checking out. Read Full Review

Certainly a single issue is not enough to say definitively whether there's something interesting, engaging or new to be found in "Low," but this first issue feels like a misstep. Remender and Tocchini are capable and experienced creators, so surely they can turn things around, but "Low" #1 is not as encouraging as one would expect from creators at this level. Read Full Review

It's a hateful little story that takes a demented glee in its own mean spiritedness, it's glad to make you feel awful for having read it with barely contained jubilance at punishing its main characters in a manner you don't usually find outside of Hostel. It's the kind of comic that makes you question why you read comics in general when one can be made with so little skill or meaning. I'm not against bleak things in comics or having bad things happen to good people in comics or nihilism in comics but it has to have a point, the whole point of Low is to try and make you as miserable as possible while reading it while saying exactly nothing; not recommended. Read Full Review

Let's get this out of the way — Greg Tocchini's art is both beautiful AND nearly impossible to understand what's going on. It's a strange thing, and it's hard to say that someone so talented shouldn't be telling stories with his artwork, but that feels like the case here.

Thank God for Rick Remender's words, because otherwise we would have been lost. Well, thank God for *half* of Remender's words ...

After a long (and nudity filled) opening that tries to quickly establish the characters and their world, 'Low' doesn't get going until the second half. But what a second half it is. The end leaves us looking forward to future issues, imagining where they might go, and hoping a new artist can come onboard to clarify these characters and their settings.

Together with his slightly superior 'Black Science', Rick Remender is churning out some of the best sci-fi work of his career.

Not sure that I'll buy #2

Art great. Story not.

If you have never read Black Science, you would think that Low was a fantastic book. However, I have read that incredible series, as well as Remender's other great Marvel works (Uncanny X-Force, Uncanny Avengers: Ragnaraok Now, Captain America: Planet Z), and this is very safe writing for him. Not great or spectacular by any means, just "eh".

Like Saga without the heart

The artwork is almost impressionistic, and you might just fall in love with it if the point weren't to tell a coherent story. Frankly it's only because of exposition in the dialog that I can follow anything about what's happening in this muddled story, and it is a shame because this is a very interesting and creative world to explore. There may be hope if Greg Tocchini were kept as a colourist and someone else handles the layout and pencils, but as it is I cannot honestly recommend this to anyone.