Between books like Youth and Lost Falls, writer Curt Pires has long been one of the best reasons to check out the Comixology Originals library. Now Pires is returning to Image Comics to kick off Lost Fantasy, a comic heavily inspired by JRPG classics like Final Fantasy VII.
Check out the slideshow gallery below for an exclusive look at Lost Fantasy #1, including interior art from the first issue and process art for Jae Lee’s gorgeous cover image:
Lost Fantasy reunites Pires with Money artist Luca Casalanguida. The first issue features cover art by Casalanguida, Alex Diotto, Darick Robertson, and Jae Lee. The series will also include a serialized backup story called Indigo Children: Exodus, a followup to Pires’ sci-fi series Indigo Children.
Here’s Image’s official synopsis for Lost Fantasy:
In Lost Fantasy, a magical world lies beneath ours, and first contact was made over a hundred years ago between the two worlds due to a natural disaster, resulting in a schism that allowed monsters to break through. Since then, secret monster slayers, known as The Great Hunters, have been working with global leaders to police the border and to keep our world safe from the creatures that lurk in the shadows. But last night, something broke through, resulting in a mysterious mass killing in Montana, and causing things to shift in a way that will ripple through both worlds. Now it’s up to rookie monster hunter Henry Blackheart to stop it…
“I’m ecstatic to be back at Image Comics with Lost Fantasy—a series that merges my love of Western comics like East Of West and Something Is Killing The Children with the dense world-building and action of the JRPGs I grew up playing,” Pires tells IGN. “Games like the Final Fantasy series—with our lead character’s Snow White spikey hair and Giant Sword being a direct homage to Tetsuya Nomura’s amazing character design for Cloud.”
Pires continues, “The ‘Lost’ in the title is also a homage—albeit a more subtle one—to the great Hironobu Sakaguchi’s Lost Odyssey—which is his criminally underrated post-Final Fantasy masterpiece at Mistwalker. So the comic has a lot of JRPG love at its core.”
Lost Fantasy #1 will be released on April 30, 2025.
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