It's heartening to learn that all the while he has been churning out work for hire for DC and Vertigo, Jeff Lemire was also simultaneously working on a personal work to follow his widely acclaimed Essex County trilogy.  Lemire is the sole creator (i.e. he scripted, pencilled, inked and lettered it) of this 220 page black and white work that has been published by Top Shelf in a French-flapped edition in the standard 7" x 10" format.  The Underwater Welder is another tale of Canadian blood, sweat and tears that is "equal parts blue-collar character study and mind-bending mystery... about fathers and sons, birth and death, memory and reality and the treasures we all bury deep below the surface."