ThunderCats: Lost In Time #1 // Review
Ligon is waking-up in a strange place. That fact that he’s waking-up at al is a bit of a shock to him. So it the prosthetic arm. It’s not just artificial: it’s metal. It’s a cybernetic enhancement. And there are more where that came from. In order to save his life, they had to replace his heart and his lungs as well. Ligon finds himself in a completely new world in ThunderCats: Lost In Time #1. Writer Ed Brisson continues his ThunderCats saga with a transitional one-shot between series. The interstitial story comes to the page courtesy of the art team of Chris Campana, Alessandra Miracolo, Gerardo Gambone and Vincenzo Federici. Ellie Wright crafts the colors.
Ligon is not alone in being displaced. He’s there with the rest of the cats he’s fought alongside. Only they’re not on Third Earth. (Not exactly.) They’re on Sixth Earth. Ligon and his allies have been brought to this place to go back and stop a war from happening. It’s a war that will result in the. complete extinction of every last Thunderian. So there’s a tremendous amount of pressure on the cats to defeat those who would kill them all: the Silverhawks.
Brisson does an admirable job in fusing the two different properties. There's enough ambiguity around the edges of the worlds of both the ThunderCats and the SIlverhawks to create a shared universe that seems to hold quite a few possibilities. It might be more than a little bewildering for those not bearing at least the passing familiar at both franchisees. The dark space fantasy fusion is relatively entertaining so far. It's an amalgamation of a whole bunch of different tropes that have a littered the genre over the course of the past several decades. It's nothing terribly new but that doesn't mean that it's not fun.
The art team places things on the page in a shadowy, ink-heavy style that lacks precsion and poise. The overall layout feels impressively placed. Drama occasionally makes it through with fierce intensity. The strange fusion of worlds doesn’t quite manage to make the kind of impact that it could, though. This is a fusion of two distinctly different franchises. It should feel a bit more like a fusion of styles visually as well. The issue doesn’t quite accomplish that. This being said, the overall feel of the adventure feels quite respectably intense.
The center of the story that’s delivered here might not be terribly original, but the overall idea is more than enough fun to keep the pages turning from cover rto cover and it DOES serve as a fun introduction to the Road To War event that’s going to be coming-up in th near future. Really looking forwawrd to being able to get into that as things progress. The ThunderCats/Sliverhawks saga holds a lot of potential. It will be interesting to see where Brisson and company take the crossover into future issues. It could be a lot of fun.
