Snow Angels Season Two #3

Snow Angels Season Two #3

ComiXology Originals 2021

Written by Jeff Lemire

Illustrated by Jock

Lettered by Steve Wands

I have to say that this is one of the most interesting, intriguing and uniquely told stories in comics right now. We don’t see a whole lot of words and yet the story is able to come across in ways that are superbly easy to follow along to. The girls found human survivors and yet these folks have betrayed them while the man in the suit has once again found them, is trying to kill them and retrieve the disk that their father gave them.

I don’t know where all the bullets this dude is using are coming from but he’s got a great wrist launching gun and he’s also got an exceptional amount of gadgetry in that suit as well. With so few humans that we’ve seen you’d think they’d have been a lot nice to the girls and welcome them to their community but these aren’t good people so when we see what happens to them here I am definitely not in the least bit bothered. The old woman in particular is a real piece of work and whatever she has coming to her she most assuredly deserves.

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 presented exceptionally well. The character development that we see through the dialogue, the character interaction, how they behave as well as how they act and react to the situations and circumstances which they encounter do wondrous things for making them into people we know or can relate to, empathise with as well. The pacing is superb and as it takes through the pages revealing more and more of the story we are frozen in place as the story moves through the pages.

I am a huge fan of the way that we see this being structured and how the layers within the story continue to emerge, grow, evolve and strengthen. I love the layers within the story that we see here and how they manage to add so much wonderful depth, dimension and complexity to the story. As the girls stumble their way through all the things their father told them about you can almost feel the hope swell up within them. How everything works together to create the story's ebb & flow as well as how it moves the story forward is impeccably achieved.

The interiors here are so completely and utterly fabulous to behold. The linework we see is fantastic and how the varying weights and techniques we see being utilised to create the detail work throughout the book does a marvellous job in bringing the story to life. While this is a frozen tundra and there aren’t really any buildings, how Jock manages to use the snow and various shades of blues and whites to create a wintery look is phenomenal. How we see the composition of the panels being utilised to bring out the depth perception, sense of scale and the overall sense of size and scope to the story is great to see. The utilisation of the page layouts and how we see the angles and perspective in the panels show a remarkably talented eye for storytelling. I love that Jock is able to illustrate and colour the work himself. The various hues and tones within the colours being utilised to create the shading, highlights and shadow work is gorgeously rendered.

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It is books like this that showcase just how far we’ve come in the industry. This is a digital content series and it’s exclusive to ComiXology and it showcases why you can have the best of physical and digital and enjoy both just as equally. Here’s hoping that this is going to be collected as a trade at some point though because it’s just too damn good not to be. There is some of the strongest writing and interesting characterization alongside these stupendous interiors which bring to life one hell of a story.