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 read the first issue online one young robot s struggle to stay alive in a universe where all androids have been outlawed and bounty hunters lurk on every planet. He is the author of titles including the essex county trilogy, sweet tooth, the nobody, and animal man. Enormous robots appeared over several key planets one day, making no communications before unleashing devastating attacks. Jeff lemire born march 21, 1976 is a canadian cartoonist. All of the abuse is unpleasant to witness, but it isnt even the worst thing weve seen in this.
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. One young robots struggle to stay alive in a universe where all androids have been outlawed and bounty hunters lurk on every planet. A young robot struggling to stay alive in a universe where all androids have been outlawed and bounty hunters lurk on every planet. Published september 24th 2015 by image comics first published march 4th 2015. Descender is a comic book series where humans perform an ethnic cleansing of robots. In a competitive bidding war, sony has picked up the movie rights to descender, an upcoming scifi comic written by jeff lemire and drawn by. Image comics is known to set loose some very potential comic series. Sony buys movie rights to upcoming scifi comic book series. Imagine the universe of mass effect, bled dry of its small amounts of hope or optimism. It tells the story of a robot who wakes up 10 years after a group of planetsized robots, the harvesters, have rampaged through the galaxy. Review of descender by jeff lemire and dustin nguyen. Descender comic read descender comic online in high quality. I dont recall ever reading a comic book done in this type of water color style before.
Tin stars is a new sciencefiction comic on image by jeff lemire and dustin nguyen the artist, not the karate guy from 21 jump street. In a day, billions were killed and the ugc united galactic council, a speciesspanning government body, was left weakened. Sony picks up jeff lemire comic descender exclusive. Descender, tome 2, descender, dustin nguyen, jeff lemire, urban comics. 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. In a sense, descender is another sign that comicbook creators and.
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