Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen's Image Comics series Descender will travel back to the past for its next story arc. Issue 27 kicks off "Old Worlds," which peels back the curtain on the secret history of the Harvesters, and Nguyen's cover for the comic's February-arriving chapter offers a glimpse at Tim-21's creation at the hands of Dr. Jin Quon.
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Along with the new story arc finally revealing secrets introduced in the first issue, each issue will have a "Little Robot" variant cover by Nguyen.
DESCENDER #27 - NEW STORY ARC
- STORY: JEFF LEMIRE
- ART / COVER A / COVER B (LITTLE ROBOT VARIANT): DUSTIN NGUYEN
- FEBRUARY 21 / 24 PAGES / FC / T / $3.99
- BRAND-NEW STORYLINE—“OLD WORLDS,†Part One!
- The origins of the Harvesters are finally revealed as we jump back thousands of years to see the dawn of the robotkind and the the secrets of the Ancient Robot and how it connects to Tim-21 in the present.
The Image Comics series is about a young robot’s struggle to stay alive in a universe where all androids have been outlawed and bounty hunters lurk on every planet looking for anything with artificial intelligence. TIM-21 is the most-wanted robot in the universe because the incredibly life-like artificial boy may hold the secret to the mass death and destruction unleashed by giant robots ten years before the story of the comic begins.
Descender #27, from writer Jeff Lemire and artist Dustin Nguyen, goes on sale Feb. 21.