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

Curt Pires, renowned for captivating titles like Youth and Lost Falls within the Comixology Originals library, is making a thrilling return to Image Comics with his latest project, Lost Fantasy. This new series draws heavy inspiration from JRPG classics, notably Final Fantasy VII, promising an exciting blend of comic storytelling and video game aesthetics.

Get an exclusive glimpse into the world of Lost Fantasy #1 with our slideshow gallery below, showcasing interior art from the first issue and the process behind Jae Lee's stunning cover:

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Lost Fantasy sees Pires teaming up again with Money artist Luca Casalanguida. The debut issue will boast cover art by Casalanguida, Alex Diotto, Darick Robertson, and Jae Lee. Additionally, the series will feature a serialized backup story titled Indigo Children: Exodus, continuing the narrative from Pires' acclaimed sci-fi series Indigo Children.

Here's the official synopsis from Image Comics 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 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 adds, "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 is set to hit shelves on April 30, 2025.

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