He is the author of titles including the essex county trilogy, sweet tooth, the nobody, and animal man. As such, weve decided to highlight a few beloved, critically acclaimed graphic novel series that have multiple trade paperback collections currently in print and. I have read many comic books by both creators dustin nguyen artist and jeff. January 25, 2019 in the upcoming ascender, jeff lemire and dustin nguyen present the next chapter of the thrilling epic that began with descender. Sonys descender adaptation finds its writer exclusive. The comic book was created by acclaimed writer jeff lemire and artist dustin nguyen. Newsweeks best comic books of 2018 2018, 2017, 2016. This first book tells the story of tim21, a childlike android who wakes up.
Dustin nguyens watercolours help to make the world feel unique and set descender apart from the majority of comic book art, however at times it can seem more like concept sketches than the finished art. Drawn with just enough abstract to allow your mind to fill in the gaps. Written by awardwinning creator, jeff lemire, descender is a riproaring and. Mar 04, 2015 descender tells the story of a robot kid named tim21, his creator, and the crew that is sent to find him after he wakes up from a dormant 10year long sleep. Imagine the universe of mass effect, bled dry of its small amounts of hope or optimism. The comic book is beautiful to look at and if the story can continue to engage and surprise then this will be a big hit.
Ve mas ideas sobre marvel, personajes comic y comics. This first book tells the story of tim21, a childlike android who wakes up in a mining colony on the planet dirishu 6. One of those comic book adventures you hope never gets translated to screen, for fear of losing. Ve mas ideas sobre dibujos, dibujos marvel y marvel. Enormous robots appeared over several key planets one day, making no communications before unleashing devastating attacks. Mar 04, 2015 descender is a comic book that throws a lot at a reader in the first issue. Amid hollywoods call, new descender comic book is his big picture for new comic descender, lemire sets his sights on what he says is important.
Feb 04, 2016 descender, a space opera comic released by image, is so damn good that sony bought the rights to adapt it to film based on the first issue alone. Descender is a comic you should read if you like mass effect. A riproaring and heartfelt cosmic odyssey that pits humanity against. Descender writer jeff lemire and artist dustin nguyen present descender, a space epic that pits man against machine. A riproaring and heartfelt cosmic odyssey that pits humanity against machine, and world against world, to create a sprawling space opera from the creators of trillium, sweet tooth, and little gotham. In this world, robots have sort of been outlawed during tims sleep, since during those ten years, every planet of the galaxy was confronted by a giantplanet sizedrobot, who attacked and. Descender is a comic book series where humans perform an ethnic cleansing of robots. His work in the 2010s includes allnew hawkeye, extraordinary xmen, moon knight and old man logan for marvel, descender and plutona for image comics, and bloodshot reborn for valiant. Set ten years after the conclusion of descenders storyline, magic has taken the place of machinery and the rules are very different indeed mila, the daughter of andy and effie from descender, spends her days exploring the lonely wilds of the. Descender is the title of a new and original science fiction drama in the form of a graphic novel.
This is a comic book series that will leave you dreaming and imagining yourself in this created world. Descender is a comic book that throws a lot at a reader in the first issue. Review of descender by jeff lemire and dustin nguyen. The team of a great talent comprised on legends jack kirby, steve ditko and stan lee created comic book legend stan lee is no more with us. One of those comic book adventures you hope never gets translated to screen, for fear of losing something in that translation. Stan lee was one of the most famous comic book writes and publisher. One young robots struggle to stay alive in a universe where all androids have been outlawed and bounty hunters lurk on every planet. Descender is a space opera comic book about a young boy robot, tim21, who awakens from ten years of sleep mode to find a galaxy vastly changed. A young robot struggling to stay alive in a universe where all androids have been outlawed and bounty hunters lurk on every planet. Mar 04, 2015 descender stands out from the huge crowd of cosmic comic books thanks to the story that lemire and nguyen are bringing to life.
Although there arent oneiric images in this volume, some of them are. Its not often you find a first issue that establishes a baseline then completely changes it, establishing a new baseline in the same issue. The descender movie is coming, so read the comics now. Well, i have to say, this is the best comic book packaging. In a world where all androids have been outlawed, one young robot fights for his life as bounty hunters pursue him relentlessly one planet at a time. I mean im aware of what my varient looks like, contains, etc. Feels like a story that asimov would have concocted. Descender tells the story of a robot kid named tim21, his creator, and the crew that is sent to find him after he wakes up from a dormant 10year long sleep.
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