Pursuing him are the inimitable Captain Telsa, daughter of the U.G.C.'s president and survivor of the harvester attacks, and Doctor Quon, the disgraced and secretive 'father of robotics'. Ten years after the carnage, a young android named TIM-21 wakes up to discover that he is not only one of the last robots in existence, but also the most wanted being in the universe. After the destruction caused by these the 'harvesters', as they are nicknamed by The United Galactic Council, anti-robot fanaticism spreads throughout the council's nine-core planets, resulting in the culling of all artificial intelligence and robotic life in the galaxy. They began to wreak havoc throughout the galaxy, demolishing entire worlds before suddenly disappearing as quickly as they arrived. Ten years in the past, planet-sized robots appeared out of nowhere. In June, 2020, Canada's Lark Productions, a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, announced that they had acquired the exclusive television rights to the series.

In January 2015, it was announced that Sony Pictures had acquired the film rights to the series with the intention of creating a feature film adaptation. The first issue was published on April 24, 2019, by Image Comics. A sequel series, titled Ascender, taking place ten years after the events of Descender was announced in 2018. Descender ran for a total of 32 issues, with the final issue of the series released on July 25, 2018. The first issue of the series was released on March 4, 2015, and received critical acclaim for Lemire's writing as well as for Nguyen's artwork, with the latter winning an Eisner Award for his artwork on the series. The story follows a young android, TIM-21, trying to survive endless bounty hunters in a universe that has outlawed all robotics and artificial intelligence. The series was published by Image Comics. Descender is a Science fiction/ Space opera comic book series written by Jeff Lemire and illustrated by Dustin Nguyen.

Descender, Vol. 2 by Jeff Lemire