Low

Rick Remender and Greg Tocchini launched Low at Image Comics in 2014. In its distant future, solar radiation has driven humans into protected underwater cities. Probes search for another habitable world, and the return of one gives Stel Caine a reason to believe escape may still be possible.

Stel's optimism clashes with a decaying society and a family under strain. The series makes hope an active, often difficult choice rather than a simple mood.

The underwater setting turns a familiar last-survivors premise upside down: the surface is now alien territory. The characters inherit a world whose refuge has become another place of confinement.

The story's emotional engine is Stel's refusal to accept decline as destiny. Her belief can look naive beside corruption and loss, but it gives the comic a direction beyond endurance.

Radiation and enclosed cities make environment a governing force. The returned probe connects a local crisis to possible worlds beyond Earth, setting a search for renewal against immediate social collapse.

The sea shelters humanity while limiting it. That tension lets the comic ask when survival becomes stagnation and what risks a society must take to move again.

Tocchini's fluid figures and sweeping environments suit a story set in water. Forms can feel suspended or compressed by the surrounding depths.

His color and movement give the undersea world beauty without making it safe. The visual richness keeps Stel's hope credible even as the setting's pressure remains constant.