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.
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