Mar 04, 2015 descender is the best new comic book of 2015. Enormous robots appeared over several key planets one day, making no communications before unleashing. One young robots struggle to stay alive in a universe where all androids have been outlawed and bounty hunters lurk on every planet. 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. Comic books with a number as its title are alphabetized by the way the name is pronounced. Descender graphic novel the seattle public library. Comic books from the atomic age scientific american. Heartstopper comic book millennium publications no. We also meet telsas father, general nagoki in the past before things on the machine this entire descender series is great. The mystery doesnt end with the core black hammer series though, as lemire expands his universe with spinoff titles sherlock frankenstein and the legion of evil, doctor star and the kingdom of lost tomorrows, and quantum age offering insightful takes on different eras and genres of realworld comic book history. Read 3 descender volumes and the acsender one in a single day. Bitch planet vol 1, saga vol 5 and descender vol 1, all pretty nifty sciencefiction titles from image comics. Image comics database is a fandom comics community.
Entertainment weekly young robot boy tim21 and his companions struggle to stay alive in a universe where all androids have been outlawed and bounty hunters lurk on. Writer jeff lemire and artist dustin nguyen present descender, a space epic that pits man against machine. Beware, you are proposing to add brand new pages to the wiki along with your edits. Weve been selling comics since 1961 our first sale. Using comic books to explore the issues and history of nuclear power. All comics come with board and bag to keep it protected. Descender is a comic book series where humans perform an ethnic cleansing of robots. Newsweeks best comic books of 2018 2018, 2017, 2016 yalsas great graphic novels for teens 2015. 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. The haunted galaxy, part three of five andy, his feisty daughter mila, and his faithful companion bandit flee the deadly militia and the tranquil life they tried to forge after the events of descender dodging froxes, giants, and killer vamps all the while. Powerhouse creative team jeff lemire and dustin nguyen launch an allnew sequel series to descender with the launch of ascender. Surely, a comic book this good couldnt have escaped the eyes of hollywood.
Giant robots called harvesters suddenly appear, taking over many of the essential functions of empire and leaving humanity struggling to find its place in a system in which automatons rule in all but name. He is currently the artist on his and jeff lemires creatorowned image comics series, descender, for which he won the 2016 eisner award for best paintermultimedia artist. A dark crystal sequel is finally coming, but itll be a comic book and not a movie. Recommendation whatre in your opinion the best non. Providing a large dump of information can wreck the flow of a story. On one hand, when filmmakers grab the adaptation rights to books and comics, its great news for the authors, who get more.
Thankfully, their investment may pay off, as descender was one of the biggest and best comics of its year. Exposition is normally a confounding element in comics storytelling. Descender volume 2 machine moon graphic novels reed comics. The comic book will debut on february 15, 2017, which will kick off plans for a celebration of the original. Image is a comics and graphic novels publisher formed in 1992 by 7 of the comics industrys bestselling artists, and is the 3rd largest comics publisher in the united states. But if you want to get on board from the ground up with one of the most intriguing superhero books around, weve got black. The series, which has already got hollywoods eye in. After selfpublishing the xeric awardwinning comic book lost dogs in 2005 via his ashtray press.
Newsweeks best comic books of 2018 2018, 2017, 2016 yalsas great graphic novels for teens 2015 nprs best books of the year your new scifi obsession is here, and its name is descender. The world of film optioning is exciting and depressing at the same time. Descender, by jeff lemire and dustin nguyen a great exercise in worldbuilding, descender takes place in the aftermath of the collapse of a great and shining human civilization. Descender comic read descender comic online in high quality. Descender 2015 2018 from image comics league of comic geeks. 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. To the contrary, i think its all to the book s credit.
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. Jan 30, 2015 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 dustin nguyen josh bratman will produce the film with. January 25, 2019 in the upcoming ascender, jeff lemire and dustin nguyen present the next chapter of the thrilling epic that began with descender. This edit will also create new pages on comic vine for. His work in the 2010s includes allnew hawkeye, extraordinary xmen, moon knight and old man logan for marvel, descender and plutona for image comics. This page lists all characters categorized with a template in the descender universe.
In march 2015, lemire launched descender, a creatorowned scifi series with art by dustin nguyen, from image comics. While the news was hardly a surprise to comic book store owners who had. 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. Nov 21, 2016 studios to release a 12issue comic book series entitled power of the dark crystal. Recommendation whatre in your opinion the best nonsuperhero comic books. Writer jeff lemire on moving from image comics descender to ascender. Feels like a story that asimov would have concocted. Jeff lemires descender series was so popular that sony actually bought film rights to it before it even released.
Please see the diamond shipping lists for current information. Dec 18, 2015 descender returns this month, and as much as i dug this issue like ive dug the whole series so far, this issue felt a little like ground retread, and felt a little bit on the short side. The story is a fantastic scifi tale of friendship and loyalty as a tim unit potentially holds the key to saving mankind. Orbital mechanicsdescender continues to be my 2nd favorite scifi comic after saga, vol.
The issue follows only andy and his bounty hunter pal, blugger, as they visit a haunted planet and make a darin. 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. Lemire veroffentlichte einen sciencefictioncomicstrip unter dem namen. Jeff lemire and dustin nguyen are true masters of storytelling, and boy oh boy, isnt the artwork just stellar.
Comic book artist dustin nguyen talks batman tales. Jeff lemire and dustin nguyen reimagine their scifi world from descender as a fantasy world in the new image comics series ascender. Set ten years after the conclusion of descenders storyline, magic has taken the place of machinery and the rules are very different indeed. He has worked for dc comics and wildstorm since 2000.
Jeff lemire born march 21, 1976 is a canadian cartoonist. I love drillers new friend mizerd and am scared for tesla and scared shitless of tim22. Its not often you find a first issue that establishes a baseline then completely changes it, establishing a new baseline in the same issue. Darksiders is a series of fantasy, hack and slash, actionadventure video games based in a fantasy setting. Drawn with just enough abstract to allow your mind to fill in the gaps. It feels relevant to the overall story, its story is interesting if a bit tedious in the beginning, we finally learn what exactly a descender is, and it features dustin nguyens stellar art. Sony picks up jeff lemire comic descender exclusive. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Of course, a few more books as good as descender wouldnt hurt. The descender movie is coming, so read the comics now inverse. The graphic adventure is the prequel comic to the first darksiders game it was released on december 1, 2009. Descender volume 1 tin stars graphic novels reed comics.
Singularities, the cover kind of gives away the sinister side of tim22 and effy and andy lose lots of friends. The new series, set 10 years after the conclusion of descender, wont launch until 2019 the final issue of descender is released digitally and in comic book stores wednesday but heat vision talked to writer lemire about the decision to continue. His work in the 2010s includes allnew hawkeye, extraordinary xmen, moon knight and old man logan. Young robot boy tim21 and his companions struggle to stay ali. W jeff lemire aca dustin nguyen rise of the robots, conclusion the falls big descender event concludes in explosive fashion as the ugc and the hardwire converge, and tim and. Today, the universe of jeff lemire and dean ormstons black hammer expands with sherlock frankenstein and the legion of evil, which delves into the past of the series villains. 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. Jeff lemire explains descender comic book sequel ascender. Rise of the robots, conclusion the falls big descender event concludes in explosive fashion as the ugc.
Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. The franchise has also spawned a novel and two comic books. Worldwide comics is very happy to have acquired this collection and bring it out to the comic collecting community, it is the most exciting group of comics we have acquired in the past 5 years. Along with rick remender and brian k vaughn, jeff lemire is now a part of my mustread comic book creators triplet. The medium reads quickly and prioritizes images over text. A riproaring and heartfelt cosmic odyssey that pits humanity against machine, and the world against world, to create a sprawling space opera from the creators of trillium, sweet tooth, and little gotham. Imagine the universe of mass effect, bled dry of its small amounts of hope or optimism. An enthralling space odyssey with lots of heart and.
This is a comic book series that will leave you dreaming and imagining yourself in this created world. 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. 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. Outside of the new 52, and the earth one series super hero comics, havent really gelled all that much with me, so whatre are some nonsuperhero comic books that you would recommend. A reddit for fans of comic books, graphic novels, and digital comics. All comic books for sale are listed alphabetically by the first letter of the comic book s name. He is the author of titles including the essex county trilogy, sweet tooth, the nobody, and animal man. So, the xmen comic books are listed under x and the outer limits is listed under o. Enormous robots appeared over several key planets one day, making no communications before unleashing devastating attacks. As the cost of paper gradually increased, the number of pages was reduced to 48, which accommodated up to 3 graphic stories, and then to 32, which usually meant a maximum of 2 stories. Get the best deals on marvel comic book collections when you shop the largest online selection at ebay. Dates subject to change at the whims of the publisher or distributor. Mar 04, 2015 descender is a comic book that throws a lot at a reader in the first issue. Comic book artist and writer jeff lemire came to our local library to talk about essex county and all the things hes working on.
Jun 24, 2009 the earliest comic books of the golden age contained 64 pages, enough to support 4 or 5 adventures within their covers. The watercolor artwork is beautiful as always and the story is fun. Browse issues from the comic book series, descender, from image comics. The series is set in a fantasy universe based around the four horsemen of the apocalypse from the christian bible. The story is just starting to get its hooks into you as the volume. Giant robots called harvesters suddenly appear, taking over many of the essential functions of empire and leaving humanity struggling to find its place in a system in which automatons rule. War arrives at the kingdom of man, as the apocalypse rages on. 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. The dark crystal sequel will be a comic book series. I have previously gushed about jim henson in the post for the first comic book of this series and if you would like to you can read it here, but as of now i think i will jump right into it. Home graphic novels d graphic novels descender graphic novels descender volume 2 machine moon graphic novel.
How canceling comiccon affects these southern california. Find the value of the image comic descender volume 1. This timeline shows the sheer scope of their scififantasy hybrid. Descender, and its sequel ascender, are the creatorowned scifi comic book series by artist dustin nguyen and writer jeff lemire. He has no care for this world, for the seven seals have been broken. Set ten years after the conclusion of descender s storyline, magic has taken the place of machinery and the rules. Descender is a comic you should read if you like mass effect. One young robots struggle to stay alive in a universe where all androids have been outlawed and bounty hunters lurk on every planet summary provided by publisher.
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