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Snow Angels #1

ComiXology Originals

By Steven LeitmanPublished 3 years ago 3 min read
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Snow Angels #1

ComiXology Originals 2021

Written by Jeff Lemire

Illustrated by Jock

Lettered by Steve Wands

Milliken and Mae have never left The Trench -- it's all they've ever known. They were born in The Trench, and they'll die there, just like all their people do. The two girls, eight and eleven, are a part of The Trenchfolk, a sprawling settlement of people living inside the massive ice walls of a vast, seemingly endless frozen trench carved into the surface of an otherwise icy wasteland. The Trenchfolk survive in this hostile world by following The Three Testaments of The Trench -- golden rules repeated like a mantra from birth to death...

1. YOU MUST NEVER LEAVE THE TRENCH.

2. THE TRENCH PROVIDES.

3. THE TRENCH IS ENDLESS.

Okay so WOW, uhm wow this almost leaves me speechless and that’s hard to do. This is an amazing story that for me comes out of nowhere and delivers such a gut wrenching tale of love, loss and the human nature in man to survive. The fact that we enter into this story the way that we do is brilliantly handled and honestly I think we know enough about the Trench and there’s no real reason to tell us how this happened or why, it just is so we’ve got the right mindset as the characters in the story. Putting the reader on the same level field as the characters engages the readers’ minds and imaginations and I have to say it’s so much more effective in getting invested and involved in the story.

I am a huge fan of the way that this is being told. The story & plot development that we see through how the sequence of events unfold as well as how the reader learns information is impeccably mastered. This issue has three characters and I’ll be damned if the character development here isn’t above and beyond what is expected, and that’s something considering Jeff is one of today’s premiere and most prolific writers. I feel like I know them to the point of being a part of the family. The pacing is superb and as it takes us through the pages revealing what we need to know we are caught up in the white wintery landscape.

Hugely impressed with the way that this is being structured and how the layers within the story have begun to emerge. I think I know why this happened but I’ll wait for confirmation but I’m interested to see how Mae Mae handles this moving forward. The way that everything works together to create the story’s ebb & flow is absolutely marvellous.

Oh sweet child o’ mine the work Jock does is absolutely mind numbingly sensational. The way he’s able to bring out the emotions and feelings through the work is admirable in ways I’d never have imagined. The faces and facial expressions that we see really help to flesh these characters out even further. While this trench is snowy white he still manages to work backgrounds into the picture which is bloody impressive. How we see depth perception, a sense of scale and the overall sense of size and scope of the story brilliantly done as well. The utilisation of the page layouts and how we see the angles and perspective in the panels show such a masterful eye for storytelling. The colour work is divine. How we see the various hues and tones within colours being utilised to create the shading, highlights and shadow work is stunning. The whites, blues and gray’s that we see in the ice and snow brings out some heavy emotions and feelings of wanting to skate and ski.

These gentlemen are premiere storytellers and this is one of the most incredible stories that i’ve read. It literally hits you like a bitch-slap around the earhole and you absolutely don’t mind that it does. This is why ComiXology Originals leads the way in digital comics.

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Steven Leitman

Just me talking about the comics I enjoy reading, ones that you might not know exist and spotlighting the indie creators that excite me.

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