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Ascender #1 From Image Comics is Star Wars meets Lord of the Rings
Ascender is one of the newer releases from Image Comics this week, taking place in a society where technology has been wiped out by the magic of religious zealots. Set ten years after the conclusion of Descender, Jeff Lemire (Sweet Tooth, Animal Man) creates a world of Star Wars meets Lord of the Rings, setting us up for dictatorship who seeks to destroy all robots and tech in the universe while simultaneously referring to dragons as inorganic ships.
Mother, the head of this movement, utilizes the help of witchcraft, vampires, and necromancy to control the war in her favor. While she attempts to extract information from the corpse of the dead Lieutenant in the resistance effort, Lemire jumps across the universe to a little girl named Mila. On Mila's home planet inhabitants can exist outside of the Mother movement but any interaction with vendors or those who are "saved" is strictly forbidden, and the punishment is being sent to a vampire camp. Mila struggles with the boredom of existence on the outskirts with her father, who forbids her from swearing allegiance to Mother for the comforts of a life inside city limits. Despite her father's best intentions however, the distance between his past and Mila is going to quickly become much shorter…
The aesthetic of the artwork is soft. Thin linework only adds small details to the watercolors of artist Dustin Nguyen (Heart of Hush, Manifest Eternity). Instead of the muddy feeling that a similar medium radiates, Nguyen's mastery instead lends to the idea that in a universe where technology is illegal, stories would be hand drawn and illustrated. This first issue does well in its world building, and readers unfamiliar with Descender won't feel lost as Lemire does well to lay down the foundation of a new story independent from previous issues. Mila's father and his companion are the same, but Ascender will no doubt bring readers something new…
Ascender #2 releases May 29th.
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