Descender #27 Review

Writer: Jeff Lemire / Artist: Dustin Nguyen / Image Comics Pay attention, kids. Grab your notebooks, a #2 pencil, and write everything I say down. I cannot stress this enough: This will be on the test. Descender is back from its 3-month hiatus and it’s here to give you some much-needed context. Lemire doesn’t care that he left you with a cliffhanger to chew on for 90 days, wondering day in and day out what Tim-21 and Tesla just got themselves into. Lemire was like “3-month break? Let’s hit em with a history lesson to make sure they’re paying attention.” That’s because Lemire is a master storyteller. He answers questions we aren’t asking, which positions us in a better place to figure out the lingering questions on our own. That way it’ll hit a hell of a lot harder when those things become clearer. This issue has the presence of a strong internal monologue. At first, it seems like we are just dropped into the unknown with characters we don’t know and places we haven’t seen. But then as the issue progresses, recognizable things begin to pop up and our gray areas begin to fill in with familiarity. It was interesting to see an entire issue take place in a flashback. Usually, Lemire weaves it into an issue to inform the perspective of whatever character the story is focusing on that time around. But placing the entirety in a past we were unfamiliar with was a refreshing aspect that I didn’t know I was looking for.

Since this is my first time reviewing Descender, I need to talk ab…