Red Mosquito

bada wrote:This sounds really cool!

IGN: You have your new series, which is Low. Go ahead and pitch it to me.

Remender: Sure. Low, the elevator pitch on it is that it's in the distant future, and the sun has begun its inevitable expansion to consume our solar system. Mankind has not found an inhabitable planet to move to, so while they're stalling out, while probes are searching the galaxy for another inhabitable home for mankind, humanity moves into giant, blast-shielded cities at the very, very depths of the ocean. Tens of thousands of years pass, and no probes come back with answers, and the cities begin to crumble. Mankind begins to fall into war, and things begin to go sideways. The end result is enough time passes that there's only two cities left -- a lot of pirates floating around from the remnants of the fallen cities -- but there are only these two cities left. Hope is pretty low. There's crime and drug abuse in the cities. The city where we start our story is sort of capitalistic run amok -- you know, bartering humans and things; it's gotten pretty ugly. This one woman there, Estelle, the mother of the family that we follow -- a family of hunters responsible for gathering food for the city -- she remains incredibly optimistic and spends every morning searching for probes with information. She's the last person doing it. Everybody else has resigned to the idea that we're done.

So what ends up happening is, one of these probes returns with a broken communicator and crashes on the surface with the location of an inhabitable world. But nobody's been on the surface of Earth in 30- or 40,000 years, and nobody has any idea what's up there. Even probes you send up to go to the top of the ocean get destroyed by any number of mutated life or pirates -- there's a lot of crazy shit up there. We've done a map of the levels of the ocean, and the first 25 issues are just getting through the layers of the ocean and what exists. It's so much fun to build that stuff. Then when you get to the surface itself, we've got all these f***ing nutty ideas about what's up there, mutated, and what life exists. So it's a story about one woman's optimism in the face of inevitable and true doom that we are looking at as a species, because eventually this will happen, albeit many millions of years from now. Her journey to find a new home for the remaining population of mankind who are mired in war and hopelessness.

VinylGuy wrote:yeah me too...already looking for Low...lets discuss some weird books...anyone read Black Hole, from Charles Burns?

bada wrote:HardTI I'm checking out Peter Panzerfaust this weekend. You and Kaius are getting me into all these weird books!

bada wrote:Will be curious if you find Battle Of The Atom and tedious as I did. Sometimes I wonder if I even like the X-Men anymore. Thinking about jumping into some Ultimate comics after Cataclysm.