The Underwater Welder by Jeff Lemire.
Title: The Underwater Welder.
Author: Lois Duncan.
Artist: Jeff Lemire.
Genre: Fiction, graphic novel, ghost stories, science fiction, family, death.
Country: Canada.
Language: English.
Publication Date: August, 2012.
Summary: Pressure. As an underwater welder on an oil-rig off the coast of Nova Scotia, Jack Joseph is used to the immense pressures of deep-sea work. Nothing, however, could prepare him for the pressures of impending fatherhood. As Jack dives deeper and deeper, he seems to pull further and further away from his young wife and their unborn son. But then, something happens deep on the ocean floor. Jack has a strange and mind-bending encounter that will change the course of his life forever! Equal parts blue-collar character study and mind-bending science fiction epic, the novel explores fathers and sons, birth and death, memory and truth, and the treasures we all bury deep down inside
My rating: 7.5/10.
♥ I want to go home. There's no avoiding it anymore. No running from it. No escape. It's time. It's amazing how our brains can create all kinds of ways of avoiding the truth. Especially when there's something you just don't want to face about yourself, or someone you love. We never get tired of running from ourselves. Never get tired of making excuses...So it's time to do whatever it is that I'm supposed to do here, see whatever it is I need to see. There's no more running. No more lying to myself. I just need to focus, ignore the pressure... Let everything else fade into the background.