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Co-created with artist Dustin Nguyen (Batman: Streets of Gotham), Image Comics' sci-fi graphic novel series Descender and sequel Ascender now have their television rights resting exclusively in the hands of Lark Productions The Canada-based member of NBCUniversal International Studios is developing and producing the series, with Lemire and Nguyen executive producing (Variety exclusive reporting) "The world[...]

Ascender #3 jumps from past to present as Mila, her father Andy, and robotic canine unit Bandit race to find a way off the planet Sampson.  Andy's life has been spent running for more than a decade, this current expedition being merely an echo to ten years earlier when he and Mila's mother Effie attempted[...]

The second installment of Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen's Ascender picks up immediately where issue #1 left off, with Mila finding her father's long lost robotic dog named Bandit.  In the previous issue, Mila resents her nomadic life and plays with the idea of giving in to the religious heretics of the anti-technology fanatic Mother. [...]

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[...]