![]() ![]() ![]() Nguyen's watercolor artwork is marvelous, using the medium's transparency to create fluid and subtly lustrous pages. From the award-winning creative team of JEFF LEMIRE and DUSTIN NGUYEN, DESCENDER is a rip-roaring and heartfelt cosmic odyssey that pits humanity against machine, and world against world, to create a sprawling sci-fi epic. Lemire (Essex County) smoothly doles out information while amping up the tension, and the innocent, friendly character of TIM-21 creates real heart in the midst of extreme violence. He wanders through the silent ruins, encountering mummified human corpses, until he is pursued%E2%80%94first by a gang of monstrous "scrappers," and then by a team from the surviving, splintered Galactic Council that wants to analyze him because his codex is identical to that of the Harvesters. He is TIM-21, programmed to be the playmate and friend of one of the miners' sons. Now, 10 years later, a little humanoid robot regains consciousness in a distant, dead mining colony. The nine planets of the United Galactic Council were smugly allocating their resources until gigantic threatening robots called Harvesters appeared from nowhere and sparked an anti-robot pogrom. ![]() This smart and beautiful graphic novel is an extremely promising start for a science fiction series. ![]()
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