Snow Angels Season Two #2
ComiXology Originals 2021
Written by Jeff Lemire
Illustrated Jock
Lettered by Steve Wands
Previously…..
Having left the Trench the girls have travelled until finding a Mech suit that was activated upon their arrival. While inside warming up and trying to understand what was going on the computer announced “Hostiles Detected.” So with new people approaching and the Snowman in his unrelenting pursuit the girls find themselves lost and at the mercy of strangers.
I am so enamoured with this book. It just keeps getting better and better and just when you thought that perhaps we’d seen it all or learned enough about how things are going to go they just laugh and say yeah right you ain’t seen nothin yet. Every step of the way the girls have found themselves learning that everything they thought they knew was wrong, from what their father said about their mother and uncle to learning that the Snowman is a human to finding this robot that they somehow managed to activate. You’d think by now they’d be prepared to be more open minded about new experiences and learning that what they’ve been taught their entire lives has been anything but the truth. This issue goes a long way in furthering that for them and us as we learn more about this world.
I am loving 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 character behave as well as how they act and react to the situations and circumstances which they encounter all do wonders in how they are portrayed as people. The pacing is superb and as it takes us through the pages revealing more and more of the story we’re almost in shock and disbelief in what we see.
I appreciate how we see this being structured and how the layers within the story continue to grow, evolve strengthen and emerge. The layers we see contain the characterisation, the plot twists and revelations and whether they work with the main arc or simply swirl around it they add depth, dimension and complexity to the story. How we see everything working together to create the story’s ebb & flow as well as how it moves the story forward is achieved exceptionally well.
The interiors here are really great to see. The linework is strong and how the varying weights and techniques are being utilised to create the detail work that we see is fantastic. That we don’t see a lot of backgrounds is normal for this kind of setting and yet the way we see the composition within the panels bring us depth perception, a sense of scale and the overall sense of size and scope to the story is rather magnificent. The utilisation of the page layouts and how we see the angles and perspective in the panels show a remarkably talented eye for storytelling. The colour work is brilliantly rendered. The various hues and tones within the colours being utilsied to create the shading, highlights and shadow work show such a great understanding of how colour works.
This is one of the more creative and different stories that I am having the pleasure to be reading at the moment. Nothing is what it appears to be and with every little thing the girls experiencing being so far removed from what it actually is is what makes the twists & turns have that much more of an impact on the reader. There is this innocence mixed in with some darker moments strewn throughout the story that makes this as gripping as it is delightful thanks to the superb writing and characterisation alongside these sensational interiors.
ComiXology Originals 2021
Written by Jeff Lemire
Illustrated Jock
Lettered by Steve Wands
Previously…..
Having left the Trench the girls have travelled until finding a Mech suit that was activated upon their arrival. While inside warming up and trying to understand what was going on the computer announced “Hostiles Detected.” So with new people approaching and the Snowman in his unrelenting pursuit the girls find themselves lost and at the mercy of strangers.
I am so enamoured with this book. It just keeps getting better and better and just when you thought that perhaps we’d seen it all or learned enough about how things are going to go they just laugh and say yeah right you ain’t seen nothin yet. Every step of the way the girls have found themselves learning that everything they thought they knew was wrong, from what their father said about their mother and uncle to learning that the Snowman is a human to finding this robot that they somehow managed to activate. You’d think by now they’d be prepared to be more open minded about new experiences and learning that what they’ve been taught their entire lives has been anything but the truth. This issue goes a long way in furthering that for them and us as we learn more about this world.
I am loving 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 character behave as well as how they act and react to the situations and circumstances which they encounter all do wonders in how they are portrayed as people. The pacing is superb and as it takes us through the pages revealing more and more of the story we’re almost in shock and disbelief in what we see.
I appreciate how we see this being structured and how the layers within the story continue to grow, evolve strengthen and emerge. The layers we see contain the characterisation, the plot twists and revelations and whether they work with the main arc or simply swirl around it they add depth, dimension and complexity to the story. How we see everything working together to create the story’s ebb & flow as well as how it moves the story forward is achieved exceptionally well.
The interiors here are really great to see. The linework is strong and how the varying weights and techniques are being utilised to create the detail work that we see is fantastic. That we don’t see a lot of backgrounds is normal for this kind of setting and yet the way we see the composition within the panels bring us depth perception, a sense of scale and the overall sense of size and scope to the story is rather magnificent. The utilisation of the page layouts and how we see the angles and perspective in the panels show a remarkably talented eye for storytelling. The colour work is brilliantly rendered. The various hues and tones within the colours being utilsied to create the shading, highlights and shadow work show such a great understanding of how colour works.
This is one of the more creative and different stories that I am having the pleasure to be reading at the moment. Nothing is what it appears to be and with every little thing the girls experiencing being so far removed from what it actually is is what makes the twists & turns have that much more of an impact on the reader. There is this innocence mixed in with some darker moments strewn throughout the story that makes this as gripping as it is delightful thanks to the superb writing and characterisation alongside these sensational interiors.
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