LOW #1-26 (Rick Remender / Greg Tocchini)

[quote=« Le Doc »]C’est l’une de celles que j’ai le moins aimé. J’ai eu quelques problèmes avec ses compositions, ses décors, l’anatomie des ses personnages…c’est pas toujours super agréable pour mes mirettes…
En fait, je crois bien que j’ai préféré certains des ses anciens travaux, comme Thor : Son of Asgard par exemple…[/quote]

Ah c’était lui ? Je ne m’en souvenais plus.
Je l’ai découvert sur la mini-série Ion, et depuis lors, je suis fan. Je préfère quand il s’encre, car il a un trait d’une sensualité incroyable. Et j’adore sa manière de s’émanciper du dessin académique, alors qu’il a une parfaite maîtrise, pourtant.
Mais vraiment, lui, il m’impressionne. Plus qu’Opeña, Murphy, Scalera et toutes les vedettes graphiques récentes. Et quand en plus il s’amuse avec l’informatique pour créer des ambiances, là, ça me tue !

Jim

Premier épisode plutôt pas mal. Bon, la construction aurait pu être meilleure : la mise en place de l’univers est très calme (on échappe à la course-poursuite dont Remender a fait son mode d’écriture ces derniers temps), permettant d’étaler un dessin sublime et un design d’une grande richesse. Les dialogues sont pas trop mal (mais je conseille de lire la postface de Remender après l’épisode, pas avant : la lire avant gâchera la surprise et donnera aux dialogues une tonalité de thèse…).
La deuxième partie, qui rentre dans le vif du sujet, est plutôt bien, avec un suspense intéressant (et un zest de course-poursuite, il peut pas s’en empêcher). Mais les enjeux sont assez brutalement posés, et quand même, sérieux, première mission familiale, première mission ratée ! Ça va un peu vite.
Après, pour mille petites raisons, ce premier numéro fait un peu redite avec Black Science : même structure de groupe, enjeux voisins, péripéties semblables. À voir sur la longueur, comment Remender arrivera à différencier les deux intrigues.

L’élément fort, pour moi, c’est Tocchini. Un trait élégant, souple, aérien, des personnages magnifiques et expressifs, un style réaliste mais qui affiche une grande dimension suggestive. Il représente sans tout montrer. Étourdissant.
En regardant les planches, je me suis pris à comparer son boulot à celui de Poïvet. Le gestion des noirs, le naturel des gestes, les perspectives courbées, le réalisme esquissé, il y a une parenté évidente. C’est délié, souple, agréable, expressif.
Un régal pour les yeux. Pour les miens, en tout cas.

Jim

Un petit aperçu de Low #2:

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[quote=« Jim Lainé »]

L’élément fort, pour moi, c’est Tocchini. Un trait élégant, souple, aérien, des personnages magnifiques et expressifs, un style réaliste mais qui affiche une grande dimension suggestive. Il représente sans tout montrer. Étourdissant.
En regardant les planches, je me suis pris à comparer son boulot à celui de Poïvet. Le gestion des noirs, le naturel des gestes, les perspectives courbées, le réalisme esquissé, il y a une parenté évidente. C’est délié, souple, agréable, expressif.
Un régal pour les yeux. Pour les miens, en tout cas.

Jim[/quote]

En regardant les pages, ça me rappelle (à tort peut être) le Stuart Immonen des années 90 !

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[quote]Low #2
Story by Rick Remender
Art by Greg Tocchini
Cover by Greg Tocchini
Publisher Image Comics
Cover Price: $3.50
Release Date Wed, August 27th, 2014
MATURE READERS ONLY
The underwater city of Salus, humanity’s last refuge, is running out of air and time. Poverty, disease, and corruption are rampant, and the church of Optimolgy can offer no solace as powerful as hard cream, the strange drug that keeps the bleak realities at bay. Police Inspector Marik Cain has sunk so low into that haze; should an opportunity for hope present itself, can he rise again?[/quote]

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En regardant les pages, ça me rappelle (à tort peut être) le Stuart Immonen des années 90 ![/quote]

C’est pas faux. Avec des contorsions corporelles qui renvoient à un dessin académique plus ancien, mais y a quelque chose, de toute évidence.

Jim

Ci-dessous, quatre pages de Low #3:

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Voici quelques pages de Low #4 par Greg Tocchini:

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[quote]Low #3
Story by Rick Remender
Art by Greg Tocchini
Cover by Greg Tocchini
Publisher Image Comics
Cover Price: $3.50
Release Date Wed, September 24th, 2014
MATURE READERS
In an effort to save mankind, Stel Caine embarks to do what hasn’t been done in millennia: walk on the Earth’s surface. But before she can rise from the depths of the ocean, she must first help her son rise from the suffocating darkness in which he wallows.[/quote]

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[quote]Low #4
Story by Rick Remender
Art by Greg Tocchini
Cover by Greg Tocchini
Publisher Image Comics
Cover Price: $3.50
Release Date Wed, October 29th, 2014
On their journey to the Earth’s surface, Stel Kane and her son must travel through the Third City, a lost utopia, long abandoned and ruled by a tribe of villainous pirates. The very same pirates who killed Stel’s husband and stole her daughters many years ago.[/quote]

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[quote]Low #5
Story by Rick Remender
Art by Greg Tocchini
Cover by Greg Tocchini
Publisher Image Comics
Cover Price: $3.50
Release Date Wed, December 3rd, 2014
MATURE READERS
Stel infiltrates the Third City, ruled by the charismatically insane Pirate King Roln, only to find that Roln holds two things very dear to her: her late husband’s Helm suit…as well as the means to pilot it. Don’t miss the chilling conclusion of the first arc of RICK REMENDER & GREG TOCCHINI’s LOW.
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[quote]Low #6
Story by Rick Remender
Art by Greg Tocchini
Cover by Greg Tocchini
Publisher Image Comics
Cover Price: $3.50
Release Date Feb 25th, 2015
MATURE READERS
Tortured and humiliated at the hands of Roln, Pirate Lord of the Third City, Stel Caine has but a single chance to save what remains of her family and escape. How high is too high a price for tomorrow? Concluding the first arc of LOW, the seminal sci-fi epic from the minds of RICK REMENDER and GREG TOCCHINI.[/quote]

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[quote]Low #7
Story by Rick Remender
Art by Greg Tocchini
Cover by Rafael Albuquerque
Publisher Image Comics
Cover Price: $3.50
Release Date Jun 17th, 2015
MATURE READERS ONLY
The hit aquatic sci-fi series returns, to cast a pale light on the icy spires of the Second City, a frozen dystopia at the bottom of the ocean, where hoping for a better tomorrow is a crime punishable by death.[/quote]

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Quelques pages supplémentaires de Low #7 suivies de quatre planches de Low #8:

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[quote]There’s a theory that I find interesting where objects don’t take form until you look at them. I can barely wrap my head around that. According to the theory if you get a present inside a box, the reality you’re in is constantly changing like a roulette table until you open the box and put your eyes on what’s inside. Then the molecules form into the shape of the object, which means we are in some ways forming reality by looking at it.

So Stel is a member of a church called Quantumology. They believe if a lot of people get together and maintain an optimistic appraisal and envision a bright future that bright future will come to past. She is the last member of the church though. [Laughs][/quote]

[size=150]INTERVIEW DU SCÉNARISTE RICK REMENDER[/size]

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[quote]Low #9
Story by Rick Remender
Art by Greg Tocchini
Cover by Greg Tocchini
Publisher Image Comics
Cover Price: $3.50
Release Date Aug 26th, 2015
As the flame of hope sputters in the cold darkness of the sea, Della Cain roars forth with a vengeance to snuff it out completely. Hope is for the weak. And in this world, only the strong survive.[/quote]

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[quote]Low #10
Story by Rick Remender
Art by Greg Tocchini
Colors by Dave McCaig
Cover by Greg Tocchini, Dave McCaig
Publisher Image Comics
Cover Price $3.50
This is it: Stel Caine has risen from the depths to set foot on the surface of Earth, the first human in millennia to do so. But what she finds there will make her wish she never left the safe darkness of the deep sea.[/quote]

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[quote]Low #11

Story by
Rick Remender
Art by
Greg Tocchini
Colors by
Dave McCaig
Cover by
Greg Tocchini
Publisher
Image Comics

Cover Price:
$3.99
Release Date
Feb 10th, 2016

Sisters Tajo and Della Caine return to their family home haunted by ghosts of their past. Do they seek blood or redemption?[/quote]

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[quote]Low #12

Story by
Rick Remender
Art by
Greg Tocchini
Colors by
Dave McCaig
Cover by
Greg Tocchini, Dave McCaig
Publisher
Image Comics

Cover Price:
$3.99
Release Date
Mar 16th, 2016

“Shore of the Dying Light” Part 2 At last Stel Caine reaches the surface, but what she finds there isn’t what she imagined.[/quote]

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[quote]Low #13

Story by
Rick Remender
Art by
Greg Tocchini
Colors by
Dave McCaig
Cover by
Greg Tocchini
Publisher
Image Comics

Cover Price:
$3.99
Release Date
Apr 27th, 2016

“SHORE OF THE DYING LIGHT” Part Three

Stel faces the infinite horrors of the surface on her journey to find the probe.
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[quote]Low #14

Story by
Rick Remender
Art by
Greg Tocchini
Cover by
Greg Tocchini
Publisher
Image Comics

Cover Price:
$3.99
Release Date
Jun 15th, 2016

“SHORE OF THE DYING LIGHT,” Part Four The surface of Earth is home to strange new life, but there is something else, something familiar… something forgotten.
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