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Issue #3 opens with Tim-21 in near-total system failure after sustaining a grievous injury from a group of scavengers who attempted to harvest him for parts.

Tim-21 wakes from lengthy stasis only to find himself alone, his family and the rest of his colony mysteriously dead, and he is completely unaware of the Harvesters and the destruction of the robots.

It is against this background that we are introduced to Tim-21, a robot boy with advanced AI who has been stranded on a colony on a remote world years. The resulting world is a bleak version of the prior utopia, that includes, maybe most aptly for the story, a severe backlash against the robot population of the planets: where robots, imbued with advanced AI, had previously been a part of daily life and, often, family members and companions, they were quickly culled. Lemire’s strengths have always best veered towards the strange and unusual, and typically manifest best in more traditional sci-fi one of his most under-appreciated works is his 2013 mini-series Trillium, which played with concepts of time travel and aliens.ĭescender feels much like a thematic extension of Trillium, as it utilizes traditional science fiction themes to craft a character-driven story aimed at forcing the reader to reflect upon himself and the world in which he exists in this way, the story is very much classic Bradbury or Asimov. The story takes place after an attack on the alliance of planets, known as United Galactic Council, by massive and mysterious robots – the Harvesters – that efficiently decimate the vast majority of each planet’s population. Over the past 10 years, Jeff Lemire has carved out a nice career for himself, both through his work through on DC’s more established characters and, maybe even more notably, through his independent and Vertigo titles such as Sweet Tooth.

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Kennedy takes a look at a couple of this week’s titles from Image, as well as Boom! Studios‘ new series Arcadia.

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