Rick Remender Adds "Aquatic Sci-Fi Fantasy" Low To His Image Comics Resume

Rick Remender's new Image Comics series Low will be "Mark my words, that's your new favorite book," said Image Comics Publisher Eric Stephenson today at the Image Expo. Illustrated by Greg Tocchini, who worked with Remender on Uncanny X-Force, the project has reportedly been in the works for more than three years. Debuting in July, Low is an ongoing, finite series, the story is set to unfold over 60 issues or so.

Remender said that the series is set the far future and is an aquatic sci-fi fantasy. "When all hope is lost and there are only a few cities left, a probe crash lands on the surface, potentially with the solution they're looking for -- an inhabitable world," he teased. "Low explores what happens to groups of humans who are holding out hope for a solution when one is quite unlikely. It's an examination of how quickly our ideals shift when we're forced to make pragmatic choices for survival," explained Remender. "But at its core is an examination of how one person's optimism in the face of all of this hopelessness can potentially change everything for the better." The concept for the art on Low was born out of one image. "When Rick Remender asked me what I wanted to do for our new project, I made a drawing of an astronaut removing her space suit in a curved setting. And that was it," said Tocchini. "Everything I wanted and the way I imagined it was in that drawing. And that was our first 'Big Bang'. The look of the whole Low universe came from that drawing." "Welcoming Rick back to Image Comics was one of my favorite moments of 2013," said Eric Stephenson, Publisher at Image Comics. "Black Science was an incredible return, and everyone here is excited for Deady Class, but I think it's a real testament to Rick's boundless imagination that he still has more new creator-owned work on the way. What he and Greg have planned for Low is nothing short of phenomenal, and we couldn't be more proud to help them bring their vision to life here at Image."