ThunderCats: Lost #7 // Review
The cats have been captured by Hammerhand and his men. They’re on a ship bound for Hammarhand’s reward at their capture. It’s not a great situation for them, but it’s nothing that they can’t handle.in ThunderCats: Lost #7. Writer Ed Brisson and artist Rapha Lobosco continue their fantasy adventure with the aid of colorist Roshon Kurichiyanil. The issue briskly moves through multiple threeats as the heroes claw their way to survival on a very harsh planet. It’s a fun, sweeping adventure that engages the visual dynamically without overpowering the reader or shooting by so fast that it all feels rushed.
It might have been Pumyra’s plan. They’re captured on a ship at sea. So themost natural way to escape would invovlve getting OFF the ship. Makesperfect sense...except for the fact that the body of water that the ship is in might just be a hell of a lot more dangerous than the ship itself. So allthey have to do is break their fetters and get back ONTO the ship (assuming that they ccan avoid the giant sea monster that seems interested in killing them.) If they can do that much, they might be able to overpower Hammerhand and his men.
Brisson does a remarkable job of moving the action along without making it feel at all rushed. There’s a lot of clever adventure momenutm that moves on series from moment to moment as the group makes its way across Third Earth in search of survival. The progression of conflicts is woven together with a stylishly intrepid energy. It’s not often that an adventure fantasy series often manages a truly harrowing sense of adventure about it. It’s weird to think that so much sci-fi fantasy adventure work on the market today lacks so much of a sense of..adventure about it. Work like Brisson’s is a powerful reminder of the importance of the adventure in fantasy. All too often it’s bogged-down in world-building and detail...it’s not to see something that has more of a respect for the adventure itself.
The ThunderCats run into a couple of larger-than-life threats this issue. Lobasco and Kurichiyanil render a very vivid sense of scope with the huge threats that move their way across the page. The feeling of peril on the high seas isn’t quite given the kind of terror that it could have managed, but for the most part the adventure in Brisson’s script is delivered to the page with precisely the kind of punch that it needs to really lock-in the sense of danger that makes it so appea;ing. With energy like this, Thundercats: Lost could continue to find an appeal for many, many issues to come.
There is SO MUCH to explore in Third Earth that never really met the screen in the original animated series. It would be fun to see Brisson and company do a deep dive into the mystery of the world that the ThunderCats have come to fid themselves on. There’s a lot of potential in the history of the planet that Brisson could really dive into given the right amount of time.
