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

Curt Pires, renowned for his contributions to the Comixology Originals with titles like Youth and Lost Falls, is making a much-anticipated return to Image Comics. This time, he's set to launch an exciting new series titled Lost Fantasy, which draws heavy inspiration from the beloved JRPG classics, particularly Final Fantasy VII.

Explore an exclusive sneak peek of Lost Fantasy #1 through our slideshow gallery below, featuring captivating interior art from the debut issue and the process behind Jae Lee's stunning cover:

Lost Fantasy #1: Exclusive Preview Art Gallery

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Lost Fantasy reunites Pires with artist Luca Casalanguida, previously known for their work on Money. The first issue will showcase cover art by Casalanguida, Alex Diotto, Darick Robertson, and Jae Lee. Additionally, the series will include a serialized backup story, Indigo Children: Exodus, continuing the narrative from Pires' 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…

Pires shares his enthusiasm with IGN, stating, "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. 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."

He further explains, "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."

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