*2022 Eisner Award Winner – Best Digital Comic*Two of the most acclaimed comics creators of their generationwriter Jeff Lemire and artist Jocktogether for the first timein this 10-part science fiction saga set in a brutal world like no other!Season Two begins! The final 6 issues of the 10-part science fiction adventure story set in a brutal world like no other starts here!Milliken and Mae have never left The Trenchits all theyve ever known. They were born in The Trench, and theyll 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 Trenchgolden rules repeated like a mantra from birth to death1. YOU MUST NEVER LEAVE THE TRENCH.2. THE TRENCH PROVIDES.3. THE TRENCH IS ENDLESS.Milli and Mae dont really know how their people came to live here. No one does, not even their wise and gentle Father. On Millikens twelfth birthday, their father takes the two girls on an overnight skate down the trencha 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 GodsThe Colden Ones. Its the trip of a lifetime until the girls push beyond the borders of their humble land and awaken the Trenchs deadly defenderThe Snowman! What follows next is an action-packed story of survival, loss and redemption.Collects issues #5-10 of Snow Angels.
About Artists & Writers:
New York Times bestselling author, Jeff Lemire, is the creator of the acclaimed graphic novels Sweet Tooth, Essex County, The Underwater Welder and Trillium. His upcoming projects include the original graphic novel Roughneck from Simon and Schuster, as well as the sci-fi series Descender for Image Comics (with Dustin Nguyen) and Black Hammer for Dark Horse Comics (with Dean Ormston). Jeff has also written Green Arrow, Justice League and Animal Man for DC Comics and Hawkeye for Marvel Comics. In 2008 and in 2013 Jeff won the Schuster Award for Best Canadian Cartoonist. He has also received The Doug Wright Award for Best Emerging Talent and the American Library Association’s prestigious Alex Award, recognizing books for adults with specific teen appeal. He has also been nominated for 8 Eisner awards, 7 Harvey Awards and 8 Shuster Awards. In 2010 Essex County was named as one of the five Essential Canadian Novels of the Decade. He currently lives and works in Toronto with his wife and son.