Nguyen's watercolor artwork is marvelous, using the medium's transparency to create fluid and subtly lustrous pages. 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. Collecting issues 1-6 of Jeff Lemire (Sweet Tooth, Trillium) and Dustin Nguyens (Little Gotham) critically acclaimed, bestselling new. Written by award-winning creator, Jeff Lemire, Descender is a rip-roaring and heart-felt cosmic odyssey.
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