He is the author of titles including the essex county trilogy, sweet tooth, the nobody, and animal man. Descender is a comic book series where humans perform an ethnic cleansing of robots. 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. 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. Of course, a few more books as good as descender wouldnt hurt.
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. Jeff lemire born march 21, 1976 is a canadian cartoonist. Descender is jeff lemires creatorowned projet, illustrated by dustin nguyen, and is another ongoing series that image comics can proudly talk about. This is the current issue, and therefore no story information will be posted about this issue. 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. Sony nabs rights to scifi comic book series descender. 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. Browse issues from the comic book series, descender, from image comics. Imagine the universe of mass effect, bled dry of its small amounts of hope or optimism society is perfect for. Descender 2015 image 20 indie comic, comic book artists.
Read 3 descender volumes and the acsender one in a single day. Descender comic read descender comic online in high quality. Chum bets on boxes of comic books season 15 history pawn stars. Since 1992, the comic book companys eight founders and prominent creators todd mcfarlane, jim lee. Please check your local comic shop for copies of this issue. Jeff lemires descender series was so popular that sony actually bought film rights to it before it even released.
Chumlee puts a blind bet on seven boxes of vintage comic books. Feels like a story that asimov would have concocted. The story is a fantastic scifi tale of friendship and loyalty as a tim unit potentially holds the key to saving mankind. Sony buys movie rights to upcoming scifi comic book series descender. Descender is the best new comic book of 2015 descender prev 4 by on deviantart jeff lemires descender gets a movie descender. Descender is a comic you should read if you like mass effect. Until you earn points all your submissions need to be vetted by other comic vine users. Writer jeff lemire on moving from image comics descender to ascender.
Taking place ten years after the riproaring and heartfelt cosmic odyssey that was descender, ascender centers on a young girl, mila, stuck on the planet sampson, the former center of the united galactic council which is now cut off from the. Sony pictures said today that it has picked up feature film rights to descender, which debuts march 4 from image comics. This let the art and the imagination of the reader do the work to bring it to life. One young robots struggle to stay alive in a universe where all. Newsweeks best comic books of 2018 2018, 2017, 2016 yalsas great graphic novels for teens 2015. 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. 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. Image comics is known to set loose some very potential comic series. 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. Ascender is the notsocleverlytitled sequel to descender, jeff lemire and dustin nguyens criticallyacclaimed, eisner winning series. January 25, 2019 in the upcoming ascender, jeff lemire and dustin nguyen present the next chapter of the thrilling epic that began with descender. 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. Star citizen character poses character costumes character art character reference character ideas science fiction alex toth armor clothing. Exposition is normally a confounding element in comics storytelling.
Jeff lemire and dustin nguyen are true masters of storytelling, and boy oh boy, isnt the artwork just stellar. Powerhouse creative team jeff lemire and dustin nguyen launch an allnew sequel series to descender with the launch of ascender. Descender is a comic book that throws a lot at a reader in the first issue. His work in the 2010s includes allnew hawkeye, extraordinary xmen, moon knight and old man logan for marvel, descender and plutona for image comics. Writer jeff lemire and artist dustin nguyen present descender, a space epic that pits man against machine. This edit will also create new pages on comic vine for. Thankfully, their investment may pay off, as descender was one of the biggest and best comics of its year. While knowledge of descender will give you some background to the story.
One young robots struggle to stay alive in a universe where all androids have been outlawed and bounty hunters lurk on every planet. 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 every planet. Being a primarily visual medium, comic art can make or break a book. 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. The film adaptation of jeff lemire and dustin nguyens image comics series descender now has a screenwriter on board, jesse wigutow. I enjoyed how the book itself was structured, as the expository panels have little to no writing. Dates subject to change at the whims of the publisher or distributor. 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. This timeline shows the sheer scope of their scififantasy hybrid. Beware, you are proposing to add brand new pages to the wiki along with your edits. Along with rick remender and brian k vaughn, jeff lemire is now a part of my mustread comic book creators triplet.
The first time i ran across this collected edition of the series, i was intrigued by the cover art. Enormous robots appeared over several key planets one day, making no communications before unleashing devastating attacks. He has worked for dc comics and wildstorm since 2000. Books like saga, paper girls, descender, rat queens, and so many more have joined the roster of astounding comics released under images banner. 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. In a day, billions were killed and the ugc united galactic council, a speciesspanning government body, was left weakened. From trades hard or paperback editions that typically collect five or six issues of an ongoing series to original graphic novels to single monthly issues, the year was rife with magnificent, deep, multilayered storytelling that offered something to virtually everyone.
The series, which has already got hollywoods eye in spite of almost nobody having read it yet. Under the radars top 25 comic books and graphic novels of. This is a comic book series that will leave you dreaming and imagining yourself in this created world. Please see the diamond shipping lists for current information. Drawn with just enough abstract to allow your mind to fill in the gaps. Jeff lemire explains descender comic book sequel ascender.
The medium reads quickly and prioritizes images over text. Set ten years after the conclusion of descender s storyline, magic has taken the place of machinery and the rules are very. Image has made it so that anybody who has a good idea and the skills to pull it off can appeal to have their work published and receive that which is due to them for their art. I decided to put a complete 1st print collection of them together, including all variants. This process takes no more than a few hours and well send you an email once approved. All comics come with board and bag to keep it protected. In 2015, he jumped ship from dc to marvel for multiple assignments and also started writing two creatorowned series at image comics, descender drawn by dustin nguyen and plutona drawn by emi.
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