{"id":5272,"date":"2013-04-30T06:33:42","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T13:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arc-zone.com\/blog\/joewelder\/?p=5272"},"modified":"2014-01-31T09:12:18","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T17:12:18","slug":"the-underwater-welder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.arc-zone.com\/joewelder\/2013\/04\/30\/the-underwater-welder\/","title":{"rendered":"The Underwater Welder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.arc-zone.com\/joewelder\/wp-content\/new_ups\/underwaterwelder_lg.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5273 alignright\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" alt=\"underwaterwelder_lg\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.arc-zone.com\/joewelder\/wp-content\/new_ups\/underwaterwelder_lg.jpg\" width=\"292\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We had the opportunity to read, and review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topshelfcomix.com\/catalog\/the-underwater-welder\/731\"><strong><em>The Underwater Welder<\/em><\/strong> by Canadian comics artist Jeff Lemire<\/a>&#8230;. \u00a0and the folks at Arc-Zone are giving this graphic novel \u00a0two thumbs up!<\/p>\n<p>* * * *<\/p>\n<p>Jack returns to Tigg&#8217;s Bay, the Canadian coastal town where he gew up, with a wife and baby on teh way. Since, as Jack puts it, &#8220;It&#8217;s hard to raise a family with an English degree,&#8221; he&#8217;s taken a job as an underwater welder for an oilrig off the coast of Nova Scotia.\u00a0 A job that keeps him away from his family for weeks at a time.<\/p>\n<p>As the anniversary of his father&#8217;s death and the birth of his son approaches, Jack is drawn more and more to his underwater workplace wehre he can &#8220;Just zero in on the weld itself&#8230;.[and] let everything else fade into the background.&#8221; But Jack doesn&#8217;t find the control he is looking for in the weld zone, instead he finds a doorway to his past, and to his future and he must decide:\u00a0 is he doomed to follow in his father&#8217;s footsteps?<\/p>\n<p>Lemire&#8217;s <em>Underwater Welder<\/em> dives into universal themes of loss, grief, love, and family with not only a compelling story, but with drawings that play with light and dark and add a layer of emotion that words alone cannot. In addition, it&#8217;s amazing what Lemire can convey with the simple line drawings of Jack&#8217;s eyes&#8211;even from behind the welder&#8217;s diving mask.<\/p>\n<p>* * * * *<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in taking the plunge, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aws.org\/education\/plunge.html\" target=\"_blank\">American Welding Society has a Guide to Starting an Underwater Welding Career <\/a>online.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re just interested in Welding Like a PRO, and getting the welding accessories you need for your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arc-zone.com\">TIG, MIG, and Plasma Arc Welding application, check out Arc-Zone.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had the opportunity to read, and review The Underwater Welder by Canadian comics artist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-welding-industry-news","entry","fw-tab-6 fw-tabr-4"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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