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 prodigi...

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.

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.

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 fi...

4.0 StarsThis 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. 

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 oka...

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 s...

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 writ...

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!

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

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...

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 b...

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.

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 i...

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.

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 slightl...

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 traveli...

(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 interper...

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 p...

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 enjo...