When Jeff Lemire ("Sweet Tooth") set out to create his new science fiction epic "Descender," he assumed that the story about the lonely robot boy TIM-21, pursued by bounty hunters across the galaxy, would take him to the farthest corners of space. Instead, he landed in Hollywood. As soon as he and artist Dustin Nguyen outlined their project publicly last summer, film studios began flocking to them. A film adaptation by Sony Pictures is already in the works. It's a moving story about the emotional duality of artificial intelligence, brought to life in atmospheric watercolor by Dustin Nguyen, with influences ranging from Miyazaki and Otomo to Stanley Kubrick ("2001"). It's already one of the best sci-fi comics of the year!.