Happy New Comic Book Day! While we don’t have anything out this week, we thought it would be fun to bring you some cool before-and-after inks to color pages from IRWIN ALLEN’S LOST IN SPACE: THE LOST ADVENTURES #1 by Kostas Pantoulas and Patrick McEvoy. While Pantoulas’ inks are beautiful by themselves, McEvoy’s colors definitely help bring the tone of the television show to comics. Like the comics so far? Submit a letter to the letters column! We’ve been getting tons of great letters and pictures from LOST IN SPACE fans all over the globe, but we have a lot of issues and letter columns to fill! Send them to letters [at] americangothicpress [dot] com and make sure to include “Okay to print” somewhere in the email. In the meantime, enjoy the first two pages from the first issue!
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Okay to Print
Dear Holly Interlandi and Co.
Hello from the vast recesses of space! Once again, an amazing comic book company has taken to the pen and brush to publish a brand-new Lost in Space comic book! This momentous event has not occurred since the 1990’s, when Innovation Comics published an 18 issue series chronicling the further adventures of the Robinsons. But this time, AGP is directly using the source material— actual scripts written by an actual LIS writer! How cool is that?! The first issue was simply amazing. Carey Wilber really captures Lost in Space in his episodes, and you guys adapted it seamlessly into comic book form.
The story is unlike anything from Lost in Space that I have ever seen. It was certainly not like Season 2, but had that mysterious Season 1 feel, with Season 3’s pop colors. I got a “Lost Civilization” vibe with Don, John, Will and the Robot out on a mission. There was also a feel of “The Space Trader” or “Two Weeks in Space” or even “Kidnapped in Space” to it, with unknown aliens looking in on what the Robinsons were doing. For Lost in Space, there was a surprising bit of drama and untold dangers, the kind that had been absent for two seasons. I would have loved to see this on TV.
I am a relatively young LIS fan— 21 years old, but I still love and respect every bit of it. Thank you for bringing Lost in Space back to the medium. Oh, the pain! (By the way, where is that ol’ Dr. Smith? Will he and the Robinson women appear in later issues? And was the scene in which the Robot emitted a force field in the script? If so, that is so cool and why isn’t it in the show?)