Descender, Volume 1: Tin Stars

by Jeff Lemire, Dustin Nguyen (Illustrator)

Overview

Newsweek's Best Comic Books of 2018
2018, 2017, 2016
YALSA's Great Graphic Novels for
Teens
2015 NPR's
Best Books of the
Year

"Your new sci-fi obsession is here, and its name is Descender." -Entertainment Weekly


Young Robot boy
TIM-21 and his companions struggle to stay alive in a universe where all androids have been outlawed and bounty hunters lurk on every planet. Written by award-winning creator, Jeff Lemire, Descender is a rip-roaring and heart-felt cosmic odyssey. Lemire pits humanity against machine, and world against world,
to create a sprawling epic.


Collects Descender
issues #1-6 of the critically acclaimed, bestselling science fiction series into trade paperback.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781632154262
Publisher:	Image Comics
Publication date:	09/15/2015
Series:	Descender Series , #1
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	93,579
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	16 Years

Editorial Reviews

★ 12/07/2015
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.)

Publishers Weekly

Nothing short of beautiful.” —Paste
Magazine



“Gorgeous.” —Vulture/NY Magazine



“Remarkable... a journey that’s so gripping, you’ll be begging for more.” —Bleeding Cool



“Beautiful.” —Nerdist



“Deft and delightful, running from warmth to chilling, gentle to brutal.” —Greg Rucka, Lazarus



“Incredible.” —The Village Voice's Topless
Robot

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