Particularly, Walta’s liberal use of dramatic shadows, and his refusal to draw a ship-set scene without a well-rendered background, make Sentient feel tense, claustrophobic, and real.
Jeff Lemire’s writing is superb as always, but Gabriel Walta’s textured, watercolored art is Sentient‘s real star. However, while Sentient‘s story is clever, compelling, and well-executed, it’s not the main reason I’d recommend it.
But space, it turns out, is a dangerous place – and there are others who think Valerie is not acting in the children’s best interest.
Valerie does her best to care for, teach, and protect the children. The high concept is this: After surviving a separatist attack on their colony ship, a group of children must navigate through space with only the help of the ship’s A.I., Valerie. When not working he spends time with his wife and sons in New Jersey.Jeff Lemire, Gabriel Walta, and co.’s Sentient feels like a gripping, one-off sci-fi movie in all the best ways. He’s the author of the STAY DEAD series, co-author of TRAIL OF BLOOD, and is a writer of short stories. He works on top titles at DC Comics, Vertigo, Image, and Random House. Steve Wands is a Comic Book Letterer, Artist, and Indie author. Many of his books are currently in development for film and television, including both Descender and A.D.: After Death at Sony Pictures, Essex County at the CBC, Underwater Welder and Plutona at Waypoint Entertainment and Gideon Falls with Hivemind Media. He has also written extensively for both Marvel and DC Comics. Jeff has won numerous awards including an Eisner Award and Juno Award in 2017.
He collaborated with celebrated musician Gord Downie on the graphic novel and album The Secret Path, which was made into an animated film in 2016. Jeff Lemire, writer of SENTIENT for TKO Studios, is the award-winning, New York Times best-selling author of such graphic novels as Essex County, Sweet Tooth, Underwater Welder and Roughneck as well as co-creator of Descender with Dustin Nguyen, Black Hammer with Dean Ormston, Plutona with Emi Lenox and A.D.: After Death with Scott Snyder.
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