Review

Descender Vol. 1

By: Jeff Lemire

Plot: 

This book is a space chase at its finest! Mystery and intrigue lace the pages along with the most amazing artwork I have ever seen in a graphic novel!

General Thoughts:

• The plot of this graphic novel is riveting and very fun to read!
• Graphics in this book are stunning watercolors that will make you envious of the illustrator, Dustin Nguyen has.
• The characters are funny and quirky to say the least.
• Each character has a distinct voice and style of speaking in this book which I thought was a good point of this because I am not always able to distinguish the voices of characters in a graphic work. 

Characters: 

• Unique, quirky and cool. 
• Distinct voices paired with kitchy and cool ways to move the plot line forward. 
• This being the first volume of hopefully many I can see that this is a great set up and introduction to all of the characters in the story.
• The scavengers are despicable and gross even in the best of light. 
• The Bots are fun and cool, in particular the destroyer bot who wants to kill all humans. 
• Tim-21 is something that I can see being developed in the future for society so that the elderly would never actually be alone. 
• If I am able to live to that age I would love to see these technologies brought into our world, although the ideas are unique and slightly ethically wrong when you are talking about giving robots a sentient state of mind.

Art Work: 

• This artwork is very fluid and unique.
• I have been unable to find a graphic novel  illustrated with such a large amount of detail. 
• STUNNING! Case and Point!

 Rating: 5/5
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