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Snow Angels: Season One
Two of the most acclaimed creators of their generation—writer Jeff Lemire and artist Jock—together for the first time in Snow Angels. Season One collects the first four issues of the 10-part science fiction adventure story set in a brutal world like no other!
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.
Milli and Mae don't really know how their people came to live here. No one does, not even their wise and gentle Father. On Milliken's twelfth birthday, their father takes the two girls on an overnight skate down the trench—a coming-of-age ritual to teach them how to fish the frozen river, how to hunt the wild Trenchdogs that wander its frigid banks, and how to give proper thanks to their frozen Gods—The Colden Ones. It's the trip of a lifetime until the girls push beyond the borders of their humble land and awaken the Trench's deadly defender... The Snowman! What follows next is an action-packed story of survival, loss and redemption.
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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.
Milli and Mae don't really know how their people came to live here. No one does, not even their wise and gentle Father. On Milliken's twelfth birthday, their father takes the two girls on an overnight skate down the trench—a coming-of-age ritual to teach them how to fish the frozen river, how to hunt the wild Trenchdogs that wander its frigid banks, and how to give proper thanks to their frozen Gods—The Colden Ones. It's the trip of a lifetime until the girls push beyond the borders of their humble land and awaken the Trench's deadly defender... The Snowman! What follows next is an action-packed story of survival, loss and redemption.
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First published June 22, 2021
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Jeff Lemire is a New York Times bestselling and award winning author, and creator of the acclaimed graphic novels Sweet Tooth, Essex County, The Underwater Welder, Trillium, Plutona, Black Hammer, Descender, Royal City, and Gideon Falls. His upcoming projects include a host of series and original graphic novels, including the fantasy series Ascender with Dustin Nguyen.
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Jeff Lemire is a New York Times bestselling and award winning author, and creator of the acclaimed graphic novels Sweet Tooth, Essex County, The Underwater Welder, Trillium, Plutona, Black Hammer, Descender, Royal City, and Gideon Falls. His upcoming projects include a host of series and original graphic novels, including the fantasy series Ascender with Dustin Nguyen.
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July 1, 2021
Milliken lives with her pa and younger sister in the Trench, a deep ice valley that stretches on indefinitely. But when their settlement is massacred by death incarnate, the Snowman, they must break the one rule they’ve lived by their whole lives: to never leave the Trench. With the Snowman on their trail, will Milli and her family make it out alive - and what’s waiting for them beyond the only world they’ve ever known?
Comixology Originals is as close a label for comics there is for a biohazard symbol because every single book in this line is absolute dogshit, and, despite big names like Jeff Lemire and Jock attached to this one, Snow Angels is no exception.
The story is so basic - characters running from a baddie - while the characters are all forgettably stock templates. Milli is generic young teen, Pa is generic father character, Mae Mae is generic lil sis. It’s a visually uninteresting book too - it’s just an icy background all the time (ie. blank white), while the Trench is just a straight line across the ice.
The world-building is so unbelievably lazy. Dogs in the Trench are called trenchdogs; weed in this world is called scrapweed; the gods of this world are called the Colden Ones (like Olden Ones but cold because this is an iceworld). And “Snowman” - who came up with that name? Just because this is an iceworld doesn’t mean everything has to have a cutesy snow/ice reference.
Who makes up the rules, how do they know that the Snowman kills everyone who breaks them - how does this knowledge get passed down if everyone dies? Lemire’s writing here is sub-YA level and YA stories are as crap and dumb as they come.
The simplicity of the Trench itself and the people who live on it suggests it may be a metaphorical or dream story but Lemire’s treatment of it isn’t that complex - this is just a bland background to tell an even blander story.
An unimaginative, uninteresting, entirely unmemorable, and poorly conceived pseudo-dystopian story, Snow Angels, Season One is snow good at all.
Comixology Originals is as close a label for comics there is for a biohazard symbol because every single book in this line is absolute dogshit, and, despite big names like Jeff Lemire and Jock attached to this one, Snow Angels is no exception.
The story is so basic - characters running from a baddie - while the characters are all forgettably stock templates. Milli is generic young teen, Pa is generic father character, Mae Mae is generic lil sis. It’s a visually uninteresting book too - it’s just an icy background all the time (ie. blank white), while the Trench is just a straight line across the ice.
The world-building is so unbelievably lazy. Dogs in the Trench are called trenchdogs; weed in this world is called scrapweed; the gods of this world are called the Colden Ones (like Olden Ones but cold because this is an iceworld). And “Snowman” - who came up with that name? Just because this is an iceworld doesn’t mean everything has to have a cutesy snow/ice reference.
Who makes up the rules, how do they know that the Snowman kills everyone who breaks them - how does this knowledge get passed down if everyone dies? Lemire’s writing here is sub-YA level and YA stories are as crap and dumb as they come.
The simplicity of the Trench itself and the people who live on it suggests it may be a metaphorical or dream story but Lemire’s treatment of it isn’t that complex - this is just a bland background to tell an even blander story.
An unimaginative, uninteresting, entirely unmemorable, and poorly conceived pseudo-dystopian story, Snow Angels, Season One is snow good at all.
February 16, 2022
The world building here is almost nonexistent. People live in this trench on an ice world. A father and his two daughters are chased by the "Snowman" after the Snowman murders their village. That's pretty much it. Nothing is explained. The short story wrote before this does a better job of fleshing out this world than the comic. Even the art isn't great. Since it's a snow world, there are hardly any backgrounds. Yet, I still couldn't tell what some of Jock's panels were supposed to be.
June 14, 2022
A little surprised at all the negative reviews.
Like the science fiction work of Ursula K. LeGuin, I don’t think it’s possible that Jeff Lemire is going to write a book that I don’t like. That said, some of his books are better than others, true, but this one is not at all bad, I liked it.
Reminiscent of classic SF ice age stories – Poul Anderson’s Winter of the World and especially Robert Silverberg’s Time of the Great Freeze – Lemire’s world building is as simple as his world is stark, survivors living in the cold. The unique aspect of this world is that the children live in a Trench, running north and south and legend tells them that they must stay in the trench.
But what happens if this is not the full truth?
Add in a strange homicidal Snowman and we’ve got a very good graphic novel. The art by Jock was also noteworthy.
Perhaps not his best but not bad either, and I’m off to enjoy the second volume.
Like the science fiction work of Ursula K. LeGuin, I don’t think it’s possible that Jeff Lemire is going to write a book that I don’t like. That said, some of his books are better than others, true, but this one is not at all bad, I liked it.
Reminiscent of classic SF ice age stories – Poul Anderson’s Winter of the World and especially Robert Silverberg’s Time of the Great Freeze – Lemire’s world building is as simple as his world is stark, survivors living in the cold. The unique aspect of this world is that the children live in a Trench, running north and south and legend tells them that they must stay in the trench.
But what happens if this is not the full truth?
Add in a strange homicidal Snowman and we’ve got a very good graphic novel. The art by Jock was also noteworthy.
Perhaps not his best but not bad either, and I’m off to enjoy the second volume.
April 3, 2022
I see a lot of my friends think this is just ok or terrible, and I was unenthusiastic in reading the first couple issues when they initially came out, but hey, it's a first volume. Lemire does a lot of comics work, maybe just too much, and some of it feels rushed or bland as a result, but with Jock as artist here there's some interest, at least.
Lemire's main go-to theme is family, particularly father-son stories, so what's the twist here??!! Two daughters, no son, whoa! One aspect of the dystopian piece is only alluded to, which is that we are in some climate disaster. This family lives with others in The Trench, in what seems to be a world covered with ice. Dad has raised his daughters to survive, and boy, they'll need those skills as it is snowy there's little food, and then (for no obvious reason) there is some kind mechano-Snow Man out to kill them, the presumed "snow angels" of the cover. And then, Something Very Bad Happens, and we face a more intense set of challenges for volume 2.
It's true there is no world-building, and we don't really know any back story on the chracters (so far) yet, but maybe this becomes a coming-of-age story as we proceed? If you read the afterword you can see that the characters are First Nations people, so maybe that figures in. Very thin volume, with some kind of tribute maybe to Gary Paulson's (RIP) Hatchet series, and Cormac McCarthy's The Road, maybe? Okay, that's overstating things, I know, this is not nearly as good, of course--maybe it's just a pale echo of Lemire's own Sweet Tooth?--but hey, I'll try one more.
Lemire's main go-to theme is family, particularly father-son stories, so what's the twist here??!! Two daughters, no son, whoa! One aspect of the dystopian piece is only alluded to, which is that we are in some climate disaster. This family lives with others in The Trench, in what seems to be a world covered with ice. Dad has raised his daughters to survive, and boy, they'll need those skills as it is snowy there's little food, and then (for no obvious reason) there is some kind mechano-Snow Man out to kill them, the presumed "snow angels" of the cover. And then, Something Very Bad Happens, and we face a more intense set of challenges for volume 2.
It's true there is no world-building, and we don't really know any back story on the chracters (so far) yet, but maybe this becomes a coming-of-age story as we proceed? If you read the afterword you can see that the characters are First Nations people, so maybe that figures in. Very thin volume, with some kind of tribute maybe to Gary Paulson's (RIP) Hatchet series, and Cormac McCarthy's The Road, maybe? Okay, that's overstating things, I know, this is not nearly as good, of course--maybe it's just a pale echo of Lemire's own Sweet Tooth?--but hey, I'll try one more.
March 3, 2023
It's Lemire doing a lazy Lemire: father with daughters (mothers are always dead in the Lemireverse), some derivative sci fi elements. Calling the tiny bit that actually happens here a 'season' is frankly ridiculous.
It's an ice world, so the visuals are pretty monotone.
It's an ice world, so the visuals are pretty monotone.
December 11, 2024
Those was ok.
July 2, 2022
A Jeff Lemire series where the idea of him doing an independent comic set on a weird snowy planet with Jock sounds more interesting than the execution of said idea. I’m a massive Lemire fan and I’ll read mostly anything he writes and I loved Jock’s All-Star Batman issue where Batman goes to the arctic to fight Mr. Freeze, so I, like most fans of these creators, thought this would be a match made in heaven. I mean, Jock getting to draw his own indie series with Lemire, and on top of that, it's in an entirely snowy location. This should be fucking awesome, right? But it just isn’t. It’s just so weird to me that this isn’t able to come together as a cohesive package in the end for me because apparently, it has been in the works since Lemire was making Sweet Tooth, and he even pitched it to Vertigo back in 2014 before it was turned down. So how does a Lemire story that’s been marinating for years and is drawn by one of the best artists in comics today manage to feel so hollow? I really couldn’t tell you, and I guess there was a reason Vertigo never picked it up in the end. I was pretty shocked by the mostly negative reviews for this series when I initially saw them, but I completely get them all after reading these first four issues. I like both Lemire & Jock a good deal, but this is one of their more forgettable projects.
Milliken lives in this trench on some weird icy planet with her dad and sister Mae Mae. The trench has three rules: Never leave the trench, the trench provides, and the trench is endless; if you break any of these rules, some murderous dude named the Snowman comes to kill you. And that’s exactly what happens to this family’s fellow trench members. Now the trio must find a way to escape the trench and grasp of the Snowman before they discover firsthand what he wants from them...
There just isn’t all that much interesting that happens here storywise, and the worldbuilding is basically nowhere to be seen. The best part of this entire volume are the characters of Pa, Mae Mae, and Milliken, even if some of their dialogue can be a bit much at times. I genuinely liked them all, and the relationship between the two sisters was engaging and felt realistic. Reminded me of my sisters. The whole villain of the arc, the Snowman, is pretty silly though and feels like a villain from a schlocky slasher film, but I guess we’ll see how the rest of his story plays out in Season Two.
I also mentioned how the art was mostly good, and while I did love most of Jock’s work, as other reviewers like Chad and Alexander have mentioned in their fantastic reviews, there is a ton of visually empty whiteness here. There needed to be something more consistently eye-catching to the art in this one, and I felt like this was never able to reach the visual highs of that aforementioned All-Star Batman issue. Hopefully, the next 6 issues of this series can change that, but I won’t act like I wasn’t disappointed with Jock’s art here. I’m excited to see how the rest of this series plays out, but I am cautiously optimistic. Lemire is one of my favorite comic writers and Jock is a great artist I enjoy, but this just didn’t work for me on any level as is. Let’s hope Season Two can improve upon this shoddy foundation.
Milliken lives in this trench on some weird icy planet with her dad and sister Mae Mae. The trench has three rules: Never leave the trench, the trench provides, and the trench is endless; if you break any of these rules, some murderous dude named the Snowman comes to kill you. And that’s exactly what happens to this family’s fellow trench members. Now the trio must find a way to escape the trench and grasp of the Snowman before they discover firsthand what he wants from them...
There just isn’t all that much interesting that happens here storywise, and the worldbuilding is basically nowhere to be seen. The best part of this entire volume are the characters of Pa, Mae Mae, and Milliken, even if some of their dialogue can be a bit much at times. I genuinely liked them all, and the relationship between the two sisters was engaging and felt realistic. Reminded me of my sisters. The whole villain of the arc, the Snowman, is pretty silly though and feels like a villain from a schlocky slasher film, but I guess we’ll see how the rest of his story plays out in Season Two.
I also mentioned how the art was mostly good, and while I did love most of Jock’s work, as other reviewers like Chad and Alexander have mentioned in their fantastic reviews, there is a ton of visually empty whiteness here. There needed to be something more consistently eye-catching to the art in this one, and I felt like this was never able to reach the visual highs of that aforementioned All-Star Batman issue. Hopefully, the next 6 issues of this series can change that, but I won’t act like I wasn’t disappointed with Jock’s art here. I’m excited to see how the rest of this series plays out, but I am cautiously optimistic. Lemire is one of my favorite comic writers and Jock is a great artist I enjoy, but this just didn’t work for me on any level as is. Let’s hope Season Two can improve upon this shoddy foundation.
June 30, 2022
"Skate! . . . Now! Skate as fast as you can!"
"He's coming, Milli! The Snowman is coming!"
If reading B-movie dialogue like that will give you a chuckle, then I have the book for you.
If it might make your teeth grind as you read of a father and his two daughters skating away from the Snowman for an entire book filled with grungy art and macho cheese, then I suggest you skip this post-apocalyptic sno-cone.
"He's coming, Milli! The Snowman is coming!"
If reading B-movie dialogue like that will give you a chuckle, then I have the book for you.
If it might make your teeth grind as you read of a father and his two daughters skating away from the Snowman for an entire book filled with grungy art and macho cheese, then I suggest you skip this post-apocalyptic sno-cone.
March 3, 2023
Skipped this one earlier because it was released through comixology, had some weak reviews... and I'm just a bit sick of Lemire. I love him but boy does he release a lot of comics.
This is, as others have pointed out, one of his weaker books. It just feels like he made the story over a weekend. There's so little to it.
Jock's art is nice but underdeveloped. Lots of it is just white space.
I'll check out Season Two to see how this wraps up...
This is, as others have pointed out, one of his weaker books. It just feels like he made the story over a weekend. There's so little to it.
Jock's art is nice but underdeveloped. Lots of it is just white space.
I'll check out Season Two to see how this wraps up...
May 7, 2022
A family living in a trench believing it’s all there is until it isn’t
October 30, 2022
Frozen mysteries.
3.5
3.5
May 25, 2024
Read 05/14/24
For some reason I keep picking up Jeff Lemire’s work even tho I don’t particularly love it, but the name and the beautiful covers on the single editions drew me into this one. It’s the collector side of me rather than the reader side 😂
This was about a 2.5. The artwork was stunning, I love love LOVE all the line work in the faces. But the story was lacking. Yes I know this was the first installment in a 10 part series, I of course was expecting some set up, but for all the major events that happened in book one the story just fell flat for me. It’s not devoid of action, but somehow I just didn’t care. We lose an MC already, which I’m assuming is going to be the catalyst to a whole journey that’s to follow, which maybe it would have gotten better, but I’m not sticking around to find out 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
So far my first foray into the comixology originals catalog is not going so well, but I do plan to dabble & try a few more, see if the membership is worth having.
For some reason I keep picking up Jeff Lemire’s work even tho I don’t particularly love it, but the name and the beautiful covers on the single editions drew me into this one. It’s the collector side of me rather than the reader side 😂
This was about a 2.5. The artwork was stunning, I love love LOVE all the line work in the faces. But the story was lacking. Yes I know this was the first installment in a 10 part series, I of course was expecting some set up, but for all the major events that happened in book one the story just fell flat for me. It’s not devoid of action, but somehow I just didn’t care. We lose an MC already, which I’m assuming is going to be the catalyst to a whole journey that’s to follow, which maybe it would have gotten better, but I’m not sticking around to find out 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
So far my first foray into the comixology originals catalog is not going so well, but I do plan to dabble & try a few more, see if the membership is worth having.
January 15, 2022
*Thanks to Edelweiss and the publisher for providing me with an eARC in exchange for an honest review.*
Jeff Lemire has done it again! He’s managed to create a comic so mediocre that I found myself wondering what was the point of it the entire time. Thank goodness it was a short read.
The art was messy and I found it hard to differentiate between the two sisters because of it; I completely relied on dialogue in order to figure it out which of the characters were talking. The actual plot itself was a half-baked mess which didn’t resemble or continue the short story Snow Angels: A Short Story that I thought was a prequel but apparently is just a random story that replicated aspects of this comic in prose form to a much better effect.
Jeff Lemire has done it again! He’s managed to create a comic so mediocre that I found myself wondering what was the point of it the entire time. Thank goodness it was a short read.
The art was messy and I found it hard to differentiate between the two sisters because of it; I completely relied on dialogue in order to figure it out which of the characters were talking. The actual plot itself was a half-baked mess which didn’t resemble or continue the short story Snow Angels: A Short Story that I thought was a prequel but apparently is just a random story that replicated aspects of this comic in prose form to a much better effect.
June 13, 2022
A kind of underwhelming post-apocalyptic story set in a frozen trench in god knows where. Was it entertaining? Slightly.... Was the art good? It's mostly white... Not much to say. I can see tons of people lining up to read this just because Lemire wrote it.....oh and the fucking ice skates are stupid AF....yep I said it.
September 6, 2024
I gave this story a second chance after dropping it after the first issue, but still not impressed. It is not totally bad, it´s just missing something that would make me enjoy it. Like characters. Or the environment. Or the bad guy. Just anything. I will finish it though in hope that the second book will get better.
2,5/5
2,5/5
July 13, 2022
4,5/5. Great! Can’t wait for the next one! Solid story very intriguing, not that original because we seen stories like that quite a lot, but a good take on it. I love it!
February 9, 2022
Snow Angels is set in a somber, frozen wasteland. It’s a Sci-fi survival story. It’s narrator is Milliken’s. She is one of the survivors in this hostile world along with her father and sister. They live in a trench which is patrolled by a mysterious snowman. Their society is held together by the ‘three testaments of the trench’. Break any of these rules and the Snowman will come looking for you.
It’s a frigid barren landscape and on the face of it a simplistic story. But the artwork helps to breath some life into it. It’s a rough and rugged style with little use of colour relying on contrasts. This suits the story and the setting.
The story builds up slowly with little clues giving glimpses of a bigger story to come. The artwork and the characterisations are it’s strong points, the story is a bit to simplistic as I have said but at the end it reaches a bit of a climax and leaves you with something to entice you into reading more. The story will conclude in season two and hopefully it will improve a bit.
It’s a frigid barren landscape and on the face of it a simplistic story. But the artwork helps to breath some life into it. It’s a rough and rugged style with little use of colour relying on contrasts. This suits the story and the setting.
The story builds up slowly with little clues giving glimpses of a bigger story to come. The artwork and the characterisations are it’s strong points, the story is a bit to simplistic as I have said but at the end it reaches a bit of a climax and leaves you with something to entice you into reading more. The story will conclude in season two and hopefully it will improve a bit.
October 24, 2021
Jeff Lemire writes another book about being cold and snowy and having a difficult relationship with your father. It is a by-the-numbers Lemire book but also there's a vague twinge of horror, sort of. It's a post-apocalyptic sort of world that maybe was sort of based on horror. Jock's art can be real pretty but because everything is set in the snow it's all white and every page feels empty. Also Jock's art is continuously interrupted with Lemire's boring dialogue and narration. Nothing about this stands out to me, aside from the two or three splash pages by Jock.
December 9, 2022
Really enjoyed this Sci-Fi thriller. Lemire's writing is exciting and Jock's artwork perfectly compliments the harsh frozen setting of the story.
April 10, 2022
Pretty solid start. I always have liked a post apocalyptic, the world has moved on Gunslinger kind of setting. Trade in endless desert for endless snow and we have a small family that has survived on a base set of rules for generations. The art is quite sparse, but character models are great and as usual Lemire delivers an interesting hook. I'll have to check the next 'Season' out.
July 23, 2022
Pretty good start! I just saw Lemire won an eisner for this... I sort of get that. Is this as string as older Lemire stuff...I would say no BUT the premise starts good.
The problem I had for this book is the story feels thin for a vol. 1, it could of had more storytelling.
Art is good.
I will read on
The problem I had for this book is the story feels thin for a vol. 1, it could of had more storytelling.
Art is good.
I will read on
January 23, 2024
This was pretty appropriate to read while snowed in over the weekend. Some cool concepts and imagery, but has others have stated, SNOW ANGELS is another example of a grand-in-scale graphic novel that mostly doesn't bother to explain the world it plunges us into, its history, or its operation. I felt as if with more fleshing-out, this could have been a more engaging and gripping tale.
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October 3, 2021A tribe of hunter-gatherers eke out a sparse existence in a trench carved from the world-spanning ice. It is blatantly obvious from the off that this is either a post-apocalyptic Earth or a failed colony planet, and that the primitives are either the decayed remnants of or an experiment by a high-tech culture, as preserved in their mythology. This would be fine if one cared about the characters, but the father, the older sister, the younger sister who are pretty much the whole cast are all as generic as the folklore, the setting and the inciting incident. And yes, Jock can draw, but you know...it's ice. There's not much to look at, and the whole time you're just thinking 'This was time that could have gone to the next volume of Wytches'. Lemire writes some very good stuff sometimes, but only sometimes; combined with the consistent sense of underperforming will-this-do which has afflicted most Comixology Originals I've read, this was never likely to be gold, but I'm still surprised quite how dull it panned out.
February 24, 2022
This reads like a pre-credit teaser scene before a boring sci-fi show. A girl turns twelve, everything she knows and loves, aside from her sister, dies, and she learns that everything she knows about the world is a lie, and now she's going to go into the world ahead of them.
It's entirely possible that there's a really cool intriguing story starting with the next volume, but this first story does little to inspire hope in that possibility. The dialog is ok. The premise is pretty basic but could be interesting. the story, at least, moves quickly, but much like The Trench where it takes place, it seems stark, endless, and uninteresting.
I don't recommend it, and am unlikely to pick up volume two.
It's entirely possible that there's a really cool intriguing story starting with the next volume, but this first story does little to inspire hope in that possibility. The dialog is ok. The premise is pretty basic but could be interesting. the story, at least, moves quickly, but much like The Trench where it takes place, it seems stark, endless, and uninteresting.
I don't recommend it, and am unlikely to pick up volume two.
June 3, 2021
Full Disclosure: I've not read this exact volume, but I've read all the issues in the volume (and plan on buying the physical book, soon as i find it)
I love interesting post apocalyptic settings, especially ones with a mystery behind what happened, and doubly so for settings so far in the future, where new cultures and belief systems have developed.
It's like a while new world, and Jeff Lemire had never disappointed me with his world building.
Can't wait for more issues! I need to know what is being the Trench! Who are the Snowmen? And what did their father find when he was young?
I love interesting post apocalyptic settings, especially ones with a mystery behind what happened, and doubly so for settings so far in the future, where new cultures and belief systems have developed.
It's like a while new world, and Jeff Lemire had never disappointed me with his world building.
Can't wait for more issues! I need to know what is being the Trench! Who are the Snowmen? And what did their father find when he was young?
May 29, 2022
More like a 2.5/5, really. This is far from standout work from either Lemire or Jock, especially Lemire, who is definitely treading familiar ground, but it's a super quick read and I can't deny I have a soft spot for post-apocalyptic, snowy desolation. Will more than likely read the second season if it's just as much a breeze to get through.
April 3, 2023
I really enjoyed this one. Lemire takes a story and limits the movement physically to only a linear potential. The characters can only move forward or backward in the trench and the suspense and horror that he writes and Jock draws has me wanting to see more of this simple but mysterious world.
July 6, 2022
We've got a father and his two daughters, a trench on an ice-encrusted planet, and a mysterious killer robot. Jock's art is edgy, matching the story's pacing. Jeff Lemire does a nice job in a small space, even with generic worldbuilding and an unsurprising cliffhanger ending. Reads fast, hits the spot. A lot rests on the next volume, though.
May 16, 2022
2.5 possibly generous stars, but this graphic novel sure can go either way in the future.
These four first issues feel very introductory and prologue-like, and also quite stereotypical in the construction of characters and setting, though at least this last one seem to be pretty interesting (cold world, the mysterious trench, almost no remanent life).
The art fits the tone of the story, but, over all, not super impressed so far...
Might or might not read the next volume.
These four first issues feel very introductory and prologue-like, and also quite stereotypical in the construction of characters and setting, though at least this last one seem to be pretty interesting (cold world, the mysterious trench, almost no remanent life).
The art fits the tone of the story, but, over all, not super impressed so far...
Might or might not read the next volume.
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