Personally, ive gotten a little tired of iceman being nothing more than comic relief. In a competitive bidding war, sony has picked up the movie rights to descender, an upcoming scifi. January 20 every living creature on earth has been devolved the evolutionary clock turned back, reverting all life to odd mutations and prehistoric incarnations. 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. You know by now that the art in descender is fantastic, but the writing in this issue was a little slow for me. May 24, 2017 personally, ive gotten a little tired of iceman being nothing more than comic relief.
Well, if you want to get technical, last saturday was september 1 st. The administrator of this site cannot be held responsible for what its users post, or any other actions of its users. We see the raw strength of a wookiee, which is pretty cool. Sony picks up jeff lemire comic descender exclusive. He is the author of titles including the essex county trilogy, sweet tooth, the nobody, and animal man. This timeline shows the sheer scope of their scififantasy hybrid. Jan 30, 2015 lemire is writing the comic with dustin nguyen doing the art. Major spoilers dungeons and dragons roundup major spoilers.
Mar 04, 2015 descender is the best new comic book of 2015. Alana and klara, markos mom, try to protect hazel from their new enemies and old ones too. 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. The most important thing from this issue is that it is very likely that. King injects this issue with unexpected humor in the beginning before getting very dark. Drawn with just enough abstract to allow your mind to fill in the gaps. The descender movie is coming, so read the comics now. In a sense, descender is another sign that comicbook creators and. 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. 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. 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. Black panther 2016 a new era for the black panther starts here. Young robot boy tim21 and his companions struggle to stay ali. 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.
In a sense, descender is another sign that comic book creators and the comic book audience arent monolithic. 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. 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. Top 15 scifi comics of 2015 becky cloonan, kelly sue. A writing fool, stephen has freelanced for scifi channels technology. Browse issues from the comic book series, descender, from image comics. 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. This year, he moves up the list with the highconcept space epic descender. In a competitive bidding war, sony has picked up the movie rights to descender, an upcoming scifi comic written by jeff lemire and. Lemire is writing the comic with dustin nguyen doing the art. 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.
Imagine the universe of mass effect, bled dry of its small amounts of hope or optimism. Image comics is known to set loose some very potential comic series. The dark horse book hearkens back to the 1950s pre code horror comic books and reintroduces mag the. Descender is a comic book series where humans perform an ethnic cleansing of robots. He then moved on to consumer technology, and began the coolness roundup podcast.
Criticallyacclaimed, bestselling descender is back with singularities, its next exciting arc. Theres so much more to bobby, in particular regarding his sexuality. 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. It features plenty of allusions to popular spy series, cartoons and video games. Marko and prince robot iv team up to find their kids since they are both taken by the same person. Hes independently publishing the fantastic scifi comic book descender with artist dustin nguyen, at marvel. Star wars roundup january 2016 comic book blog talking comics. Not going to lie, the chewbacca comic has been my least favorite of the star wars line. 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. Lazarus is still one of the best books on the shelves. It further solidifies its place as one of the years best comic book series with science fiction that is exciting, absorbing and emotionally resonant.
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. Overall, though, still a fairly good comic, and i still have very high hopes for issue 9, to be expected january, 2016. Part 1 5 last updated by tony gman guerrero on mar 4, 2015 14. 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. A surprise appearance from bobby in his hulk iceman form redeems how the issue treats him just a little. With this summers secret wars event approaching, things are trucking along in the marvel universe. As far as im aware, this series is a reboot of a character from a british comic called action. 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. January 25, 2019 in the upcoming ascender, jeff lemire and dustin nguyen present the next chapter of the thrilling epic that began with descender. New ongoing series written and illustrated by jeff lemire descender, a. 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. Descender writer jeff lemire and artist dustin nguyen present descender, a space epic that pits man against machine.
Jeff lemire born march 21, 1976 is a canadian cartoonist. January 31, 2016 brand new year, and we mark the oneyear anniversary of marvels return to star wars comics. Brand new year, and we mark the oneyear anniversary of marvels return to star wars comics. And this is the first issue in a new story arc the right one to start. 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. 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. Recommendation whatre in your opinion the best nonsuperhero comic books. 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.
Descender is jeff lemires creatorowned projet, illustrated by dustin nguyen, and is another ongoing series that image comics can proudly talk about. Set ten years after the conclusion of descenders storyline, magic has taken the place of machinery and the rules are very different indeed. 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. Feels like a story that asimov would have concocted.
I love black hammer, descender, and after death ad. We had a lot of great issues and series last year, and im really looking forward to whats in store for 2016. 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. The series features ten comic books that will take you into a madcap world, one that is familiar yet offbeat. Weekly roundup august 6 12, 2018 the comics multiverse. 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. Star wars roundup january 2016 comic book blog talking. 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.
None of the files shown here are hosted or transmitted by this server. Recommendation whatre in your opinion the best non. His work in the 2010s includes allnew hawkeye, extraordinary xmen, moon knight and old man logan for marvel, descender and plutona for image comics, and bloodshot reborn for valiant. 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. This is a comic book series that will leave you dreaming and imagining yourself in this created world. A for those of you that want to experience our entire coverage, heres that list in order. Big glasgow comic page marco piva jun 15, 2016 even ignoring the amazing art, anyway, descender is a good series to get into.
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