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A stunningly crafted horror space opera from Eisner Award-winners Jeff Lemire ( Black Hammer ) and Gabriel Walta ( The Vision ), now available in a deluxe collector's edition with bonus content.

WELCOME TO THE U.S.S. MONTGOMERY. When a separatist attack kills every adult on board a colony ship in deep space, it is up to VALARIE, the on-board A.I., to help the ship's children survive. But as they are pursued by dangerous forces, can Valerie become more than what she was programmed to be - a savior to these children?

TKO is proud to present the ultimate edition of Jeff Lemire and Gabriel Walta's instant sci-fi classic, and Eisner-Award nominee. This deluxe hardcover features over 70 pages of bonus material including never-before seen script excerpts, concept art, progress art, and much more.

248 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2019

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Jeff Lemire

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Jeff Lemire is a New York Times bestselling and award winning author, and creator of the acclaimed graphic novels Sweet Tooth, Essex County, The Underwater Welder, Trillium, Plutona, Black Hammer, Descender, Royal City, and Gideon Falls. His upcoming projects include a host of series and original graphic novels, including the fantasy series Ascender with Dustin Nguyen.

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Profile Image for Melissa ♥ Dog/Wolf Lover ♥ Martin.
3,633 reviews11.6k followers
February 16, 2021
Son of a shit!! That was damn good!!





I added it to my Amazon wish list - correction, my never ending Amazon wishlist for the paperback!!!! Gah!!! Grrr!! Well, thank you to my father for a $25 Amazon gift card for Valentine’s Day so I got one book off the big ole list!! Guess he felt sorry since I have no one to celebrate with and it’s always a good excuse for a gift card for more books, graphics, manga, movies and crap 🤣😂

This is a story of some kids and an AI that go through some shit when bad shit goes down. I’m ready for the next one!!

Happy Reading!
Mel 🖤🐶🐺🐾
Profile Image for Sam Quixote.
4,801 reviews13.4k followers
December 1, 2020
In da future, humans leave Earth to go lives on a space colony - woah, thas original maaan! On the space ship, bad people kills all the adults - but not the childrens! Now it’s up to the babies and the space ship compooter to make it to the colony. But more bad people is coming - wuh oh! Time to get astoopid, it’s a steaming pile of sci-fi pap slopped together by Chef Lemire!

Sentient isn’t the worst Jeff Lemire comic I’ve read but it’s a long way from his best. The problem with Lemire’s prodigious output is that there are often underdeveloped elements in his scripts or simply outright WTF moments - and there are plenty of those in Sentient mixed in amongst many boring scenes.

Let’s start with the premise: so ALL of the adults congregate in this one room (except the schoolteacher) - ALL of them? Not one adult was elsewhere on this giant spaceship? Ok, that’s dumb. And just because Valarie the AI’s mission protocols were turned off, that means she suddenly has the personality of a human mom?? Why would anyone develop an AI to be that way?

Also, Val can control the entire ship’s systems but when they reach a refueling station, she can’t stop Lil from going out to have a wander around inside - seriously, she can’t lock a door?? She does everything else onboard the ship, controls all the other elements, but she can’t lock a door? Ok. More dumb.

It comes down to crap writing. Lemire needs these things to happen regardless of whether or not it makes sense. We never get a strong idea of why there are separatists, what their goals are, or what and why they believe what they believe - they’re just framed simplistically as the trouble-making villains.

And when separatists attack and the kids need someone good at computers, here’s Isaac who suddenly demonstrates Franklin Richards-levels of genius - how convenient! Has Jeff Lemire never met a 10 year old before? They’re idiots! But this one is able to do all the usual sci-fi nonsense (override systems, etc.) effortlessly. Dumb dumb dumb writing.

There’s nothing terrible about Gabriel Walta’s art besides it being dull to look at. The spaceship designs, both exterior and interior, look generic (think Ridley Scott’s Alien movies-type aesthetic), the kids are just kids, and there’s no one scene that stands out as particularly memorable visually. It’s serviceable but not impressive art.

Despite being wholly contrived, Lil’s misadventure on board the refueling station wasn’t boring and the kids solemnly preparing the adults’ bodies for the space burial was quietly moving. Mostly though I didn’t find Sentient very interesting to read and thought the story was rushed and poorly put-together overall. Jeff Lemire and space continues to be a bad combo.
Profile Image for Chad.
10.3k reviews1,060 followers
August 24, 2020
Absolutely riveting. Lemire borrows from a lot of other science fiction stories to create his own killer sci-fi story. It has a lot of elements of Alien and 2001 in it, giving you that sense of isolation in space while traveling with a sentient A.I.

The basic premise is that the spaceship Montgomery is about to enter a radiation belt for a year that blocks out all communication while en route to a new colony. As soon as they enter it, things so desperately wrong. I think it's best not knowing any more than that going into it, but here's the rest if you can't help but spoil things for yourself.

Gabriel Walta's simple rustic art works well here. Both in the spaceship sci-fi setting and his great expressive work with the cast. A lot of this can be told just from the look on the characters' faces and that is due to Walta.
Profile Image for Alexander Peterhans.
Author 2 books297 followers
November 16, 2020
Lemire returns to what must be his favourite subject - families, and how they function (or rather, not function, and how to repair that disfunction).



A spaceship full of families, parents and their children, are travelling to a space colony. The parents are murdered, and now the ship's AI, Valary, has to take over parenting duties. Harrowing adventures ensue.

A book about losing loved ones, about trauma, about survival.



It all tootles along nicely, Lemire certainly knows how to tell a story (the first chapter alone is an impressive lesson in economical storytelling), and yet.. it didn't completely connect for me. Maybe because there's so much happening, everything is about surviving, with little room to let the story breathe.



The art is fantastic, full of attention to sci-fi design details. It's also great at bringing home the devastation the children experience (and who doesn't like that!).
Profile Image for Jon Nakapalau.
6,488 reviews1,022 followers
October 28, 2024
Amazing - elements of Lord of the Flies, Alien, 2001: A Space Odyssey and I, Robot are echoed here. When every adult member of a colony ship is killed by separatists the AI that interfaces with the ship (VAL) must train the children onboard to continue on there journey. Deep questions are raised (Asimov's Laws) as to the degree AI should be used and to what extent 'total autonomy' should be considered. One of the best GN I have read this year.
Profile Image for Dave Schaafsma.
Author 6 books32.1k followers
January 5, 2022
Another (such as Descender) Jeff Lemire sci-fi story about the (emotional) possibilities for AI. As almost always with Lemire, it is a story about parenting, the crucial necessity of healthy parent-child relations. The opening is dramatic and arresting, in that a woman on a space station who is described as a separatist decides to kill all the adults and take the care of the children in her own "capable" hands. Valarie is the ship's AI, and she needs to protect the children, and help them take back the ship. Like a parent, she has to teach these kids survival skills. She has to become their parent.

So that premise is interesting to me, reminding me of a covered wagon pioneer tv series in the sixties where the parents are killed or die, can't recall, and the kids must learn to survive on their own. Though they don't get the advantage of a robot. However, then Sentient turns generic sci-fi when they need to land on a planet to refuel and main girl character Lil (who is ten, a rebellious kid!) decides to disobey Val and leave the ship to see what the SOS communication is all about on this planet. Oops!

Only two kids in this story are named--Lil, in opposition to Isaac--our two main characters. None of the other kids stand out. And the villains and their group and their cause are generic. The ending comes rather abruptly, with a possible promise of more volumes?

The art by Gabriel Walta, as is sometimes the case with Lemire sci-fi series the last few years, is better than the story, but it's unnecessarily dark, cast in a brown (intended to be sepia, as in a long past story?) wash throughout. I liked it, over all, just fine--the surprisingly violent opening gets a point from me just for being so surprising (though it's true, children-in-peril is a common theme in Lemire) and maybe future volumes will flesh out the characters and political conflicts, but somehow I doubt it.
Profile Image for Richard.
1,062 reviews472 followers
June 11, 2020
This is my second book from the small but stalwart indie publisher TKO Studios and it's another five-star slam dunk! It's written by Jeff Lemire, one of the greatest comic book creators working right now and he once again tells a surprisingly simple but powerful story about a group of children who must learn to survive after the tragic deaths of their parents on a spaceship headed for a far-away planet colony, under the care of the ship's AI. Everything here is a success, from the efficient writing and Gabriel Walta's lovely watercolor art, to the surprising plot twists, and the look at what family and maternity mean. I loved everything about this book and it is definitely one of the best graphic novels I've read so far this year. Don't miss out.

Profile Image for James DeSantis.
Author 17 books1,205 followers
May 31, 2020
Jeff Lemire takes the atmosphere of Alien and puts it into the world of these kids trying to survive against both machine and humans.

That's what the story boils down to. Survival and taking care of one another. Similar themes and story beats from Descender, but that's okay, because that series was amazing. Lemire gets to tell a twisted story of redemption and courage while also dealing with loss. On top of that the art is solid as can be and really captures the atmosphere. The ending is slightly abrupt but the rest is great.
Profile Image for Bill.
1,163 reviews191 followers
March 6, 2021
Sentient is an excellent, fast pased science fiction adventure. It's a straightforward story about a spaceship carrying people from Earth to a new colony. Then the trouble begins when all the adults are killed, leaving only the children & an AI to continue the journey.
The artwork is extremely good, with plenty of decent sized panels to show it off. This is a great graphic novel, & one I would have missed if it hadn't been for a glowing review on Goodreads. Thanks, Mel!
Profile Image for Nancy.
1,703 reviews53 followers
November 22, 2025
The USS Montgomery is a spaceship, filled with families who are fleeing a dying Earth and headed to a space colony in 2105 (not too far off in our future!). But in the opening pages, a separatist kills all the adults on board, and the AI has to be quickly reprogrammed to eliminate the mutinous crew member and to keep the remaining twelve children alive. VAL is able to guide and teach the children what they need to do to survive, but at a fueling station, one of the older youth rebels and falls into trouble. The children need to use all the skills they have learned in their grief to fight off another separatist group that utilizes their own AI to take over the ship.

Despite the story being predictable, it pulled at my heartstrings and I really enjoyed it. I liked Walta's art and appreciated that he kept track of the details, as characters often disappear in group scenes, but the children were always represented correctly. While I assume this is a standalone story, the conclusion left enough threads open to continue, and I would be happy to revisit this plucky group of survivors. (Actual review 4.5/5)

This review can also be found on my blog: https://graphicnovelty2.com/2025/11/1...
Profile Image for Václav.
1,127 reviews44 followers
December 2, 2019
(4 of 5 for thrilling spaceship anxiety by Lemire)
There is next TKO batch and it's even less enticing than the first one (where Sara is the cream of the crop). But there is one miniseries which got my attention. Sentient by Lemire (but not drawn by him). It's just a few rather popular space sci-fi survival tropes skilfully put together, so do not expect something new, shocking or original. But it's well written, Lemire knows his trade. And another thing which Lemire know is how to write interpersonal dramas, even in space. And with kids.
I love the atmosphere. It's oppressive, claustrophobic - it got that Aliens thrill in almost 2/3 of the book. And a very fast pace.
I liked the characters, even I was afraid when Lemire used my hated "stupid self-centred stubborn kid/teenager" plot catalysator. But he was very gentle with that and somehow managed to make it less annoying for me. And that's something.
The art is alright, it fits the industrial space ship/station style, looks space cold and not welcoming, which supports the overall atmosphere. I can't complain here.
Profile Image for Rachel (TheShadesofOrange).
2,887 reviews4,799 followers
February 1, 2021
4.0 Stars
This was a solid graphic novel that I would recommend to fans of Lemire's popular scifi series, Descender. The entire story is contained in a single volume, yet it packs in a full of action and emotion. The graphic novel could have been extended into a full series because the ending felt a bit rushed. Otherwise, I really enjoyed this one and would definitely recommend it to scifi readers. 
Profile Image for Ivan.
511 reviews324 followers
July 17, 2020
After Descender Lemire takes on AI story one more time and as result is one of his best works. In terms on quality Descender Vol 1 and 2 are still the best but Lemire has trouble writing long stories and every multiple volume series has drop in quality after first few. Here is this, atmospheric, emotional, self-contained story we see all of Lemire's strengths and none of his weaknesses.
Profile Image for Luca Ambrosino.
276 reviews13.6k followers
June 19, 2024
ENGLISH (Sentient) / ITALIANO

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The Earth is near to collapse, and the search for a new planet to colonize is the only hope for the human race salvation. The USS Montgomery is a spaceship used for the carriage of terrestrial exiles towards a new planetary colony. However, despite the planetary crisis, humanity is still deeply divided, with factional struggles that would like to follow different plant to give a future to next generations. And the crew of USS Montgomery is about to find out soon...

The human nature doesn't seem being able to live without seeing enemies even in desperate situations. At the expense in this graphic novel is a handful of children, which has to deal with a tragic situation, playing the role of adults to survive. Interstellar travel searching for new worlds, Artificial Intelligence, the unknown of outer space... Lovers of sci-fi will get their money's worth.

Vote: 8

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La Terra è ormai prossima al collasso e la ricerca di un nuovo pianeta da colonizzare è l’unica speranza di salvezza per il genere umano. LA USS Montgomery è un’astronave adibita al trasporto di esuli terrestri verso una nuova colonia planetaria. Tuttavia, nonostante la crisi planetaria, l'umanità è ancora profondamente divisa, con lotte tra fazioni che vorrebbero seguire piani differenti per dare un futuro alle prossime generazioni. E l'equipaggio della USS Montgomery sta per scoprirlo presto...

L'indole umana non sembra poter fare a meno di vedere nemici anche in situazioni disperate. A farne le spese in questa graphic novel è un manipolo di bambini, che si trova a dover affrontare una situazione tragica e ad improvvisarsi adulti per poter sopravvivere. Viaggi interstellari alla ricerca di nuovi mondi, Intelligenza Artificiale, l'ignoto dello spazio profondo... Gli amanti della fantascienza troveranno pane per i loro denti.

Voto: 8

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Profile Image for Rory Wilding.
800 reviews29 followers
January 6, 2020
When it comes to Jeff Lemire, who has written and drawn a lot over the years, he often focuses on children that are put through the ringer, in order for the reader to feel depressed. There may be glimmers of hope here and there, but Lemire’s fictional children are all about stepping into the abyss and in the case of Sentient, deep space.

As the spaceship U.S.S. Montgomery journeys across space in order to reach the Colony, the adult crew is killed by a separatist attack. With the responsibility passed onto the on-board A.I. Valarie, she has to maintain the survival of the dead crew’s children, who now have to take control of the ship, whilst facing obstacles on the way to their new home.

What's impressive from its initial issue, is how it establishes the children and their parents, in particular Lil and Isaac, each raised by a different way of parenting from their respected mothers. This establishment works so well that when things do go horrifically bad, you feel for the children who not only lose their parents, but how at that very moment, facing sudden death. After this tragic ordeal, Valarie essentially becomes a mother to these children, who suddenly have to follow their parents’ footsteps.

One could possibly suspect this story going in a Lord of the Flies scenario, as the central drama is the rocky relationship between Lil and Isaac. With his separatist mother killing the other crew members, the only friendship Isaac has been with the A.I., who tries to protect the youngsters, much to the reluctance from Lil, who aims to be more than what her age suggests and rejects the motherhood from Valaria. At the heart of the story, is an unlikely family that may have issues within, but how they are resolved from the encounter of outside forces.

Although some of the ideas are well-worn in the realm of sci-fi, it is credited to both Lemire and Walta who make their story feel unique. Certainly, making the faceless A.I. as a protagonist could’ve proven difficult, with her motherly personality along with the relationship with the children, leads to some emotional beats.

As for Gabriel Walta, he is known for his gritty and down-to-earth art-style that applies really well with the U.S.S. Montgomery looks a lot like the Nostromo from Ridley Scott’s Alien. With a large number of pages with minimal dialogue, the storytelling is told solely through the art, which blends a haunting atmosphere and the expressive nature of the youthful characters.

Given that it’s a space adventure, there is a minimalist quality to Sentient that works in its favour with a tone that is both light and darkness in telling a compelling story about family and survival.
Profile Image for Jeff.
84 reviews2 followers
November 22, 2019
Really enjoyed this 6 part series. Jeff Lemire just continues to lay out good stories with interesting characters and subtle statements about life. If you have not started binge reading everything he's produced, you are missing out. Sentient was a great sci-fi tale. It was fresh and new and not a rehashed telling of someone's story. Kudos.
Profile Image for Ignacio.
1,440 reviews304 followers
January 19, 2020
A estas alturas de mi vida lectora le pondría 5 estrellas a cualquier tebeo ilustrado por Walta. La textura que da a sus dibujos me atrae tanto que puedo pasar por encima de que en Sentient parece entregar el borrador currado de un storyboard para una posible adaptación televisiva. Una sensación acentuada por el guión de Lemire, con una construcción episódica con un cliffhanger al final de cada "grapa" que termina de manera chusca en el último número; una elipsis de esas que no te dejan a cuadros pero puede despertar suspicacias (lo cierro aquí como podía haberlo cerrado 27 números después). Por lo demás, el contenido de ciencia ficción funciona con las ganas de entrega del lector, con un grupo de niños cuidados por una IA enfrentados a su posible deriva hacia El señor de las moscas y enemigos externos que tienen que mantener a raya. Un continuo salto del tiburón en lo que a suspensión de la incredulidad se refiere, atenuado por lo que comentaba al principio: está tan bien dibujado...
Profile Image for Rod Brown.
7,347 reviews281 followers
October 6, 2021
A stellar opening chapter is squandered as what could be powerful drama gives way to cliched sci fi action and cheap thrills. The characters are so thin many of them don't even get names until late in the book.
Profile Image for David.
Author 20 books403 followers
January 4, 2021
Lil in space

I will always have a soft spot for YA SF, especially "kids in space" stories that remind me of old Heinlein juveniles. There aren't many new ones — YA SF is usually about dystopias and identity and shipping drama and whatever the young'uns are interested in nowadays. So when I saw the blurb for Sentient, which, ahem, happens to have a somewhat similar premise to my own story, I had to read it.

With allowances made for the fact that it's told in graphic novel form, Sentient was pretty good. I enjoyed it, even if the science is soft at times (AIs that don't really act like believable AIs are one of my pet peeves.)

The USS Montgomery is a colony ship carrying families, including a bunch of kids, to a colony on another planet. Earth is on the brink of environmental collapse, and there are also separatist terrorists on the colony itself. The details are never really explained, as they aren't that important to the story.

One of the members of the crew - who's also the mother of one of the kids - turns out to be a separatist. She kills all the other adults, apparently planning to bring all the children to her separatist comrades when they get to their destination. There is a brief but graphic bloodbath at the end of which all the adults, including the separatist, are dead. The only survivors aboard the ship are a bunch of children, the oldest one being 10 years old, and Valarie, the ship's AI.

The crew

Valarie has to teach the kids to perform ship's duties while bringing them to their destination. The kids are mostly responsible for their ages, but they are kids, and Valarie wasn't programmed to be a parent. But she learns.

Much of the story is about Valarie evolving, and the kids struggling to cope after having watched the bloody corpses of their parents get ejected into space.

Corpsicle

The main characters (aside from Val) are the two oldest, Lil and Isaac. Lil is smart and capable, but also angry and rebellious. She is stuck being the leader, and hates it, and argues with Valarie constantly.

Isaac carries the heaviest burden: his mother is the one who killed everyone else's parents. He's the most mature and responsible, but nobody trusts him.

Lil and Isaac

As science fiction, it is a comic book: Valarie is a little too "emotional" for an AI, and there are times when the computer seems unable to do things that a ship's computer could easily do (like paying attention to two things at once) because it's convenient to the plot. The "hacking" scenes are very Hollywood, and the reasons for the ship making stops to refuel, and the plausibility of "space pirates" and so on is handwaved, so just accept that it's a YA adventure about kids in peril

If kids in space is your kind of thing, I highly recommend Sentient. The art is very classic SF, and the artist captures kids' faces in a way a lot of comic artists can't, and when bad things happen, it actually feels like the children are experiencing it the way children do.
Profile Image for L. McCoy.
742 reviews8 followers
January 26, 2021
SUPER FAST REVIEW:
This book isn’t bad but not Lemire’s best. It’s no Descender, that’s for sure.
So the story itself is actually pretty great! There’s also some fantastic art and piles of bad-ass sci-fi action!
I didn’t care much about the characters, they weren’t interesting or well written (they’re meant to be kids but often sound like small adults except they keep saying they’re kids). It’s also very predictable.
Overall, it’s a very enjoyable read but nothing particularly mind-blowing. It’s okay in the end!

3/5
Profile Image for Diz.
1,860 reviews138 followers
February 2, 2021
While the idea of robots or A.I. taking care of children is not a new idea, I found myself uncertain of how the story would go, especially in the last third of the book, which helped me to enjoy this book more than I probably would have otherwise. I also felt that the art style fit with the story well. It has a roughness to it that expresses the situation of the children well, but at the same time it has some softness to it that makes the children seem more childlike. It's hard to explain, but it works.
Profile Image for Jirka Navrátil.
211 reviews14 followers
December 7, 2019
"Moje první Lumírovina"
Mám rád vesmírné cokoliv, takže pro mě další objednávka z TKO byla jasná a ještě do toho Lumča, kterého kromě všech začly hajpovat i moje kočky a manželka.

Začátek je opravdu pořádný rozjezd a děje se tam šíleně všeho moc. Tam ti umřou, tam ti přežijou a tam to tomu šéfuje. Hlavní postavy jsou dvě a A.I., které jsou dobře napsané, akorát mě ta malá holka srala celý komiks (ale co by jste taky chtěli po holce v pubertě). Často se mi stává, že když čtu nějaký komiks, prostě vím co se asi stane na dalších pár stránkách a nejsem z toho příběhu moc překvapený, tady je to naopak, hltal jsem každou stránku a chtěl vědět co bude dál....

Dávám tomu 4,5*, protože první Lumírovina (a to jsem si myslel, že jeho komiksy mě nebudou bavit) a je to skvělá Lumírovina, je to skvěle nakreslené, formát slipcase je boží, TKO si dalo mojí fotku s komiksem na instastories a Valerie je krásné jméno.
Profile Image for Petr Nakasharal Fabián.
251 reviews2 followers
December 1, 2019
Je to hybrid všech klišé scifi filmů. Jestli jste jich pár viděli, tak vás nepřekvapí vůbec nic. Není tam jedinej nápad nebo twist, kterej by to posunul aspoň malinko mimo univerzální šablonu gritty scifáren.
Zároveň člověku čtení rychle uteče a komiks si drží napětí. Přestože mám dojem, že měl tohle Lemire tak nějak u prdele a prostě jenom něco splácal dohromady, tak umí pracovat s médiem. Hlavně s tempem, takže jsem se nenudil a nic mě vyloženě neštvalo ale zároveň jsem neměl ani chvilku, kdy bych se řekl “tyjo tohle je dobrý!”. Pocit všeobecný průměrnosti tak nějak podtrhuje nijakej art.

Za mě jsou to solidní tři hvězdy a za tejden nebudu vědět, že jsem to někdy četl.
Profile Image for Jakub Kvíz.
345 reviews40 followers
December 2, 2019
Podzim je na Lemirovi novinky plodnej a po jeho solovce Frogcatchers a dlouho odkladane ongoing serii Family Tree je tu vesmirny drama Sentient od TKO.

USS Montgomery prevazi “novou varku” lidi do vesmirny kolonie (protoze Zeme pujde brzo do kopru), ale po sabotazi ze strany separatistu zustanou na palube jen deti, o ktery se stara lodni AI Val. Vyvoj pribehu je od prvni stranky po vetsinu citelnej, ale i tak je zabavnej a dobre odsejpa.

Kresba je spis prumerna a krom ustredniho dua mi prislo, ze jsou vsichni stejny, ale vzhledem k tomu, ze hrajou druhy housle, tak to neni zase takovej problem.

Zvetsenej format TKO paperbacku je paradni a celkove zpracovani maj zmaknuty na jednicku.
Profile Image for Craig.
2,884 reviews30 followers
April 22, 2020
This is a beautiful-looking graphic novel, courtesy of Gabriel Walta. The story by Jeff Lemire is a bit on the simple side and the characters aren't very well-developed, but things look great, and I'm willing to overlook the faults. Basically, a giant colonizing spaceship runs into trouble, leaving only the children of the crew alive and running things, with the assistance of the ship's AI. There's so much more that could have been done with this, including running the series past 6 issues. But I guess I'll take what I can get, especially when it looks like this--the volume is oversize and printed on heavy paper, but the graphics and the coloring all work like gangbusters.
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575 reviews75 followers
March 19, 2021
Sentient is a standalone science fiction graphic novel by the acclaimed team of Jeff Lemire and Gabriel Walta. I love it when I can find a comic book that is a single story in a single trade paperback. Not part of an ongoing series that may never be completed, but a solid story all by itself.

Sentient grabs the reader immediately with an intense opening. It's better to leave more unsaid on this one. But due to some exciting spoilers there is a group of children left alone on a space craft traveling through a stretch of the universe unreachable by any communications.

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Author 1 book103 followers
June 13, 2020
Woah. If this doesn't win the Eisner it was nominated for, the committee will evidently have lost their minds. This is a well crafted, thought provoking book that deserves all the awards and a wide readership. Hats off to TKO Studios for making this happen and (hopefully) revolutionizing the industry for the better. Very much looking forward to the next batch of titles.
Profile Image for Liam Mcguire.
58 reviews3 followers
November 25, 2019
A heartwrenching Sci-Fi story about survival and family. It might be the best work either creator has done, which is saying quite a bit. I can't recommend it enough.
Profile Image for RG.
3,084 reviews
April 26, 2020
Lemire writes yet another amazing story. Coming of age story mixed with AI...awesome stuff here. One of my fave reads of 2020
Profile Image for Jesus Flores.
2,568 reviews66 followers
November 2, 2021
Sentient

En una nave que viaja de la tierra hacia un planeta colonia, de repente pasa algo y solo quedan los niños, la nave y los niños ¿podrán sobrevivir y llegar?.
Con esa premisa logran una historia, si bien corta, bastante interesante. Me gusto la interacción con la IA. Si solo se desarrollan mínimamente 3 personajes, Isaac, Lilly, y Val (la IA), el resto es simple fondo. Pero para un solo tomo pues pasa, y cumple con contar la historia. Entretenida, y buen dibujo.

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