Young Robot boy TIM-21 and his companions struggle tostay alive in a universe where all androids have been outlawed and bountyhunters lurk on every planet. Written by award-winning creator, Jeff Lemire,Descender is a rip-roaring and heart-felt cosmic odyssey. Lemire pits humanityagainst machine, and world against world, to create a sprawling epic. Collectingissues #1-6 of Jeff Lemire (Sweet Tooth, Trillium) and Dustin Nguyen's (LittleGotham) critically acclaimed, bestselling new science fiction series! "NewYork Times Bestselling author Jeff Lemire has built a unique career as both thewriter and artist of acclaimed literary graphic novels like Essex County, TheUnderwater Welder, Sweet Tooth and Trillium and also as one of the most popularwriters of mainstream superhero comics with acclaimed runs on such titles asGreen Arrow, Animal Man, Justice League and Hawkeye for Marvel and DCComics.
Current projects include the originalgraphic novel ROUGHNECK to be published by Simon and Schuster in 2016, as wellas the science fiction series DESCENDER with Dustin Nguyen and A.D. with ScottSnyder.
In 2008 and in 2013 Jeff won theSchuster Award for Best Canadian Cartoonist. He has also received The DougWright Award for Best Emerging Talent and the American Library Association'sprestigious Alex Award, recognizing books for adults with specific teen appeal.He has also been nominated for 8 Eisner awards, 7 Harvey Awards and 8 ShusterAwards.
In 2010 Essex County became the firstgraphic novel to be included in the prestigious Canada Reads contest making itto the final five and winning the people's choice vote as best Canadian novel ofthe decade.
He lives in Toronto with his wifeand son.
It's been such a long time since I read the first volume of this series, and I'm not sure why I never picked this one up because I remember loving the story. The art is fantastic and I love the steady world-building that is found throughout, the new characters are really intriguing, and I love the reveals.
I'm really curious as to where the story is going and just how things are going to end, so I will definitely be grabbing the third volume at some point. Hopefully a bit quicker than I did with this one.
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