Big glasgow comic page marco piva jun 15, 2016 even ignoring the amazing art, anyway, descender is a good series to get into. Mar 04, 2015 descender is the best new comic book of 2015. Diamond coronavirus coverage roundup as diamond, geppi family enterprises and vendors continue their efforts to help retailers operate their businesses while the coronaviruscovid19 pandemic unfolds, look to this page for links to related articles as they are added to diamond daily and diamonds retailer services website. Brand new year, and we mark the oneyear anniversary of marvels return to star wars comics. This is a comic book series that will leave you dreaming and imagining yourself in this created world. Star wars roundup january 2016 comic book blog talking. 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. Stephen schleicher began his career writing for the digital media online community of sites, including digital producer and creative mac covering all aspects of the digital content creation industry. King injects this issue with unexpected humor in the beginning before getting very dark. This year, he moves up the list with the highconcept space epic descender. Recommendation whatre in your opinion the best non.
One young robots struggle to stay alive in a universe where all androids have been outlawed and bounty hunters lurk on every planet. Feels like a story that asimov would have concocted. The dark horse book hearkens back to the 1950s pre code horror comic books and reintroduces mag the. Descender 2015 2018 from image comics league of comic geeks. The dark horse book hearkens back to the 1950s pre code horror comic books and reintroduces mag the hag and gurgy tate who narrate parts of the stories. This third collection of the bestselling series by jeff lemire and 2016 eisner award winning artist dustin nguyen dives deep into the secret histories of each cast member with revelations that will propel young robot tim21s scifi adventure into dangerous. Image comics is known to set loose some very potential comic series. The descender movie is coming, so read the comics now. Big glasgow comic page marco piva jul 18, 2016 to conclude, descender is a very fine series whose main strengths are the characters and the art. Not going to lie, the chewbacca comic has been my least favorite of the star wars line. Set ten years after the conclusion of descenders storyline, magic has taken the place of machinery and the rules are very different indeed.
If you love comics, you should be reading this book. Criticallyacclaimed, bestselling descender is back with singularities, its next exciting arc. Part 1 5 last updated by tony gman guerrero on mar 4, 2015 14. Sony picks up jeff lemire comic descender exclusive. Overall, though, still a fairly good comic, and i still have very high hopes for issue 9, to be expected january, 2016. Recommendation whatre in your opinion the best nonsuperhero comic books. He is the author of titles including the essex county trilogy, sweet tooth, the nobody, and animal man. The administrator of this site cannot be held responsible for what its users post, or any other actions of its users. This timeline shows the sheer scope of their scififantasy hybrid.
We had a lot of great issues and series last year, and im really looking forward to whats in store for 2016. Written by macarthur genius and national book award winner tanehisi coates between the world and me and illustrated by living legend brian stelfreeze, a nation under our feet is a story about dramatic upheaval in wakanda and the black panthers struggle to do right by his people as their ruler. Descender is emotion wrapped in wires, and its a great start to a space opera focused more on the existentialism of what makes something sentient. Top 15 scifi comics of 2015 becky cloonan, kelly sue. 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. January 25, 2019 in the upcoming ascender, jeff lemire and dustin nguyen present the next chapter of the thrilling epic that began with descender. A writing fool, stephen has freelanced for scifi channels technology. January 31, 2016 brand new year, and we mark the oneyear anniversary of marvels return to star wars comics. A surprise appearance from bobby in his hulk iceman form redeems how the issue treats him just a little. 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. 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. But dont fret, theres a lot of good stuff just on the horizon for comic book fans, after all, tomorrow marks the start of zero month here at dc. Jan 30, 2015 lemire is writing the comic with dustin nguyen doing the art. Comic bastards zeb larson sep 28, 2016 now, how he and effie are going to end up reunited with andy is kind of beyond me.
It further solidifies its place as one of the years best comic book series with science fiction that is exciting, absorbing and emotionally resonant. Jeff lemire born march 21, 1976 is a canadian cartoonist. By delivering the weekly list of new releases, along with news concerning current and future products available in local and online comic book shops, we enable consumers to meet their goals more effectively. The series features ten comic books that will take you into a madcap world, one that is familiar yet offbeat. War begins to take its toll on gotham and its protectors in the third installment of the war of jokes and riddles and king does not hold back in terms of whats shown and the brutal accounting of the events from batman. As far as im aware, this series is a reboot of a character from a british comic called action. Drawn with just enough abstract to allow your mind to fill in the gaps. You know by now that the art in descender is fantastic, but the writing in this issue was a little slow for me. Hes independently publishing the fantastic scifi comic book descender with artist dustin nguyen, at marvel. 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. Ten years after harvesters robots bigger than you can imagine have pretty much decimated eight fully populated planets, a robot named tim 21 awakes to find his mining colony in ruins, and his family missing.
Star wars roundup january 2016 comic book blog talking comics. I love black hammer, descender, and after death ad. Descender is a comic book series where humans perform an ethnic cleansing of robots. And this is the first issue in a new story arc the right one to start. Weekly roundup august 6 12, 2018 the comics multiverse. In a competitive bidding war, sony has picked up the movie rights to descender, an upcoming scifi comic written by jeff lemire and. 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.
We dont write many articles about comics here at sf signal. Descender is jeff lemires creatorowned projet, illustrated by dustin nguyen, and is another ongoing series that image comics can proudly talk about. It features plenty of allusions to popular spy series, cartoons and video games. Personally, ive gotten a little tired of iceman being nothing more than comic relief. He then moved on to consumer technology, and began the coolness roundup podcast. Alana and klara, markos mom, try to protect hazel from their new enemies and old ones too. New ongoing series written and illustrated by jeff lemire descender, a. Lazarus is still one of the best books on the shelves. 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. Admittedly this new issue doesnt exactly inject pace in the story at least until its final pages, but it helps us get to know better an already interesting character. In a competitive bidding war, sony has picked up the movie rights to descender, an upcoming scifi. Big comic page martin doyle jan 12, 2016 although light on action, issue nine is still a richly rewarding read, and lets face it, when a lower key issue of a book is this engrossing, you know youre onto a winner. Browse issues from the comic book series, descender, from image comics. In a sense, descender is another sign that comic book creators and the comic book audience arent monolithic.
Theres so much more to bobby, in particular regarding his sexuality. Black panther 2016 a new era for the black panther starts here. Well, if you want to get technical, last saturday was september 1 st. 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. May 24, 2017 personally, ive gotten a little tired of iceman being nothing more than comic relief.
Marko and prince robot iv team up to find their kids since they are both taken by the same person. None of the files shown here are hosted or transmitted by this server. 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. Imagine the universe of mass effect, bled dry of its small amounts of hope or optimism. In a sense, descender is another sign that comicbook creators and. Lemire is writing the comic with dustin nguyen doing the art. 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 for those of you that want to experience our entire coverage, heres that list in order. Jun 15, 2016 big glasgow comic page marco piva jun 15, 2016 even ignoring the amazing art, anyway, descender is a good series to get into. The most important thing from this issue is that it is very likely that.
Major spoilers dungeons and dragons roundup major spoilers. Descender writer jeff lemire and artist dustin nguyen present descender, a space epic that pits man against machine. Young robot boy tim21 and his companions struggle to stay ali. And then theres jon, the lovable hero not your average modern superhero.