"Lost Fantasy: Image Comics Unveils Final Fantasy-Inspired Series"

If you're a fan of engaging storytelling and dynamic artwork, you'll be thrilled to know that writer Curt Pires, renowned for his works like Youth and Lost Falls in the Comixology Originals library, is making a grand return to Image Comics with his latest project, Lost Fantasy. This new series draws heavy inspiration from the beloved JRPG classics, especially Final Fantasy VII, promising a thrilling blend of fantasy and action.

Get an exclusive sneak peek at Lost Fantasy #1 by exploring our slideshow gallery below, which showcases stunning interior art and detailed process art behind Jae Lee's captivating cover:

Lost Fantasy #1: Exclusive Preview Art Gallery

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Lost Fantasy brings together Pires and artist Luca Casalanguida, previously collaborated on Money. The debut issue features an impressive lineup of cover artists, including Casalanguida, Alex Diotto, Darick Robertson, and Jae Lee. Additionally, the series will include a serialized backup story titled Indigo Children: Exodus, continuing the saga from Pires' sci-fi series, Indigo Children.

Here's the official synopsis from Image Comics:

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 shares with 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 elaborates, "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."

Mark your calendars! Lost Fantasy #1 is set to hit the shelves on April 30, 2025.

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