DESCENDER 1: TIN STARS

One young robot’s struggle to stay alive in a universe where all androids have been outlawed and bounty hunters lurk on every planet.

Ten years ago massive, planet-sized robots called “Harvesters” materialized without warning and invaded the orbits of all the United Galactic Council’s worlds, wiping out entire planets and civiliza- tions before disappearing again. In a fear-fueled response to this machine holocaust, the galaxy blamed millions of robotic companions, whom they suspected of somehow spawning the Harvest- ers. All robots and androids were immediately outlawed and ruthless bounty hunters called Scrap- pers were charged with scouring the universe for any surviving robots. An incredibly life-like artificial boy, TIM-21 may hold the secrets to the origin of the Harvesters deep in his machine DNA—and as a result is the most-wanted robot in the universe. With only his small pet-bot Bandit and the lumbering mining droid Driller at his side, TIM-21 goes on the run. Before long the entire galaxy is looking for this rag-tag group of unlikely companions, as they make their way from one exotic planet to the next with new foes advancing on them at every turn. Jeff Lemire is New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed monthly comic book series Sweet Tooth (DC/Vertigo) and Trillium (DC/Vertigo), New York Times bestseller The Underwater Welder (Top Shelf), and the award-winning graphic novel Essex County (Top Shelf)—one of the five Essential Ca- nadian Novels of the Decade. Dustin Nguyen is an American comic artist whose body of work, for the past 13 years, includes – Wildcats v3.o, The Authority Revolution, Batman, Superman/Batman, Detective Comics, Batgirl, and Batman: Streets of Gotham and his creator-owned project Manifest Eternity. His recent projects in- clude co-writing and illustrating Justice League Beyond and illustrating Vertigo’s American Vampire: Lord of Nightmares. Currently, he produces the art for DC’s all ages series- BATMAN: Lil Go- tham written by himself and Derek Fridolfs.