Descender

Descender

Jeff Lemire

Book - 2015

"Ten years after planet-sized robots called Harvesters appeared and wreaked havoc across the galaxy, a young android named TIM-21 wakes to find that all robots have been outlawed. But TIM may hold the secrets to the Harvesters in his machine DNA and he quickly becomes the most wanted robot in the universe. With bounty hunters and threats lurking at every turn, TIM embarks on a mind-blowing adventure through the stars along with his robot dog, Bandit, and the lumbering mining droid, Driller."--Back cover of Volume 1.

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vol. 3: 1 / 1 copies available
vol. 4: 1 / 1 copies available
vol. 5: 1 / 1 copies available
vol. 6: 1 / 1 copies available
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Subjects
Androids > Comic books, strips, etc.
Robots > Comic books, strips, etc.
Science fiction comic books, strips, etc.
Comic books, strips, etc.
Science fiction comics.
Comics (Graphic works)
Genres
Science fiction comics
Comics (Graphic works)
Published
Berkeley, CA : Image Comics [2015-]
Language
English
Main Author
Jeff Lemire (author)
Other Authors
Dustin Nguyen (illustrator), Steve Wands
Item Description
Collects: Descender #1-6 [volume 1] ; Descender #7-12 [volume 2] ; Descender #12-16 [volume 3] ; Descender #17-21 [volume 4] ; Descender #22-26 [volume 5] ; Descender 27-32 [volume 6]
Physical Description
volumes : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Audience
Rated M: Mature.
ISBN
9781632154262
9781632156761
9781632158789
9781534301931
9781534303454
9781534306905
  • v.1. Tin stars
  • v.2. Machine moon
  • v. 3. Singularities
  • v. 4. Orbital mechanics
  • v. 5. Rise of the robots
  • v. 6. The machine war
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

This smart and beautiful graphic novel is an extremely promising start for a science fiction series. 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. Now, 10 years later, a little humanoid robot regains consciousness in a distant, dead mining colony. He is TIM-21, programmed to be the playmate and friend of one of the miners' sons. He wanders through the silent ruins, encountering mummified human corpses, until he is pursued-first 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. 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. Nguyen's watercolor artwork is marvelous, using the medium's transparency to create fluid and subtly lustrous pages. (Sept.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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