Descender: The Deluxe Edition Volume 2 Hardcover – 3 Dec. 2019

as is the normal with Jeff Lemire, a great story volume one & two are great and i can't wait for ascender to be released on hardcover,also the artwork is a watercolour feast for the eyes, great work from Dustin Nguyen.

The atmosphere, the universe, the characters... All of this contains a nice blend of impeding doom, which is familiar yet nice feeling. The style of the art is really nice too. Though watch out for the ending.

“Descender Deluxe volume 2” collects issues #17-32 of this science fiction comic-book.I call it ‘science fiction’ because it is a space-adventure story with aliens and humans (and robots) but no superheroics. I call it ‘adventure’, because, like Star Wars and so much other science fiction in comics and on TV, the science is rather wobbly.Setting aside the faster than light travel of which there are TWO versions available, and the fact that few writers have a grasp of astronomical distances, energy requirements or simple economics, and therefore just scale up Earth cultures and economic models, this is an entertaining story with superb artwork, which may come as a shock to anyone who isn’t familiar with Mr Nguyen’s work, but it adds a level of ‘difference’ that any science fiction series needs in order to stand out from the run of the mill comic book look.The story and characterisation is well-handled, though several of the characters are SF/comic book stereotypes, and some of the plot elements will be familiar, though the mix of these ingredients is different enough for the book to stand on its own.When I read the first two paperback collections, which took the story up to issue #11, I gave them 4-star reviews, but rereading those issues when I got the third volume, I have revised my reviews to a 5, and this, the second half of the story maintained that level of quality..This is a fun read, and the artwork really does give it an extra dimension that suits the characters and the type/style of the story that even an ultra-realistic artist – such as the ones who make Marvel’s latest Star Wars series so good – would not do justice to.This is what comic-books are really about – a fusion of art and story that makes the finished product something more.