by Jeff Lemire (Author),
Dustin Nguyen (Artist)
Publisher: Image Comics;
Deluxe edition (December 19, 2017)
Hardcover, 400 pages
The
Deluxe volume one collects the first three softcover graphic
novels, or issues 1 - 16 of the science fiction series. Which is half of the 32
issue series. Not a bad get if you’re willing to pay. It was a Christmas
present for me, so I didn’t have to shell out. This has been followed up by the
sequel series, Ascender, which has lasted for fifteen issues so far. I have no
idea of it ends there because I have not read them. But I sure might, as the
story presented in Descender is
compelling and interesting. Recommended for lovers of the space opera
In a distant system, or
series of interconnected systems - the plot is nebulous about that - the human
race has abandoned Earth and created the United Galactic Council with various
other sentient species. Into this comes nine giant robots, dubbed the
Harvesters - think Voltron sized times a hundred- who appear out of apparently
nowhere and attack the major hubs of civilization. After causing untold damage
the robots vanish back to where they came from. This leads to a cull on
Artificial Intelligences and robot across the civilized world were hunted down
and destroyed. Some hid away, some banded together to make a resistance
movement called the Hardwired. All this happens in the first ten pages.
Ten years later, a small
boy companion robot, one designed for empathy and love (similar to the main
character in the underrated A.I.
film) comes back online. He was saved from the robot holocaust because the
mining colony he was stationed in suffered a catastrophic gas leak where most
of the crew was killed. It is determined by various hostile parties that, for
whatever reason, this model of robot has the same baseline codex - that is
initial code, similar to mechanical DNA I guess - as the Harvesters. Things go
off the rails following that.
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