September 13th, 1999 - when an atomic accident causes the Moon to be blown out of orbit and hurled into the unknown, the survivors of the lunar bar stationed there launch towards their destiny - and adventures - across the stars!
Set in the continuity of the original series, Space: 1999 - To Everything That Was fills in the gap between the first above second seasons as well as offering a glimpse beyond the gothic science fiction television series Space: 1999, offering an exciting narrative of events that occurred "between the scenes".
This collection is a celebration of the Space: 1999 comics of yesteryear, reprinting the best of the Charlton Comics series and the British Look-in issues along with remastered and unpublished works by comic book legends such as Gray Morrow (Man-Thing, Tarzan, Buck Rogers), John Byrne (Green Lantern, Superboy), and more.
This new edition includes material left out of the 2013 release and offers fans a first-ever look at the unproduced Space: 1999 Season 3 graphic novel series by BLAM! Ventures.
Space 1999 is a show from my childhood that I loved. A live action TV show from Gerry Anderson about the inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha following a nuclear explosion on the moon that tears it out of earth orbit and begins its journey through space where the Alphans meet all manner of alien life while they are looking for a new home. The show run for 2 seasons in the 1970s. This book brings together reprinting some of the Charlton and Look-in comic strips plus some unpublished strips. The artwork is amazing, and this large size volume gives us a great look at that artwork. The stories span across both seasons of the show plus more from what may have been series 3 if things had been different. My only gripe is the color choice for the personal logs in same stories make it really hard to read the text when a dark background color is used but this really is a minor gripe. A must have for fans of the show.
A pedantic approach to reprinted "Space 1999" comics (English and American) the serves mostly to add an extra layer of dullness to some very sub-par artwork. I'd give it one less star if it wasn't for the bright flashes produced by Mike Noble's lovely artwork that mostly shows the rest of the book up for what it might have been.