Man's Best #1

by Pornsak Pichetshote, Jesse Lonergan (artist)

Homeward Bound on an alien planet, Man’s Best follows three emotional support pets living on the Starship Horizon – a spacecraft searching for a new planet to house a humanity compromised by bad decisions and corporate corruption.
But after the ship crashes and their crew is captured, these loyal pets are their owners’ only hope. Outfitted in outrageous mech suits, these three best friends must traverse a hostile world to rescue their owners – leaving them the only hope for a humanity that might not be worth saving, in an adventure threatening to tear their friendship apart.
Pornsak Pichetshote, writer of the Eisner and Harvey Award-winning The Good Asian, soon to be adapted by director James Wan, in his first collaboration with Eisner Award-nominated rising star artist Jesse Lonergan (Hedra, Miss Truesdale and the Fall of Hyperborea) provide an action-packed sci-fi romp with something to say in a tale that spans the furthest reaches of space to tug at readers’ hearts.

Genres: Comics, Science Fiction, Graphic Novels, Animals

35 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 20, 2024

About the author

Pornsak Pichetshote was a Thai-American rising star editor at DC’s Vertigo imprint where he worked on such comics perennials as The Sandman and Swamp Thing. His books have been nominated for dozens of Eisner awards—be it the award-winning Daytripper, the New York Times bestseller The Unwritten, or critical darlings like Sweet Tooth and Unknown Soldier. He left Vertigo to become an executive in DC Entertainment’s media team, where he started and oversaw DC TV’s department. Infidel marks his first major comics work as a writer.

Reviews

[Lizzy DeMarco · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interesting concept. Love its about ESA saving their owners.

[Shaun Stanley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Man’s Best #1 is a Boom Studios comic written by Pornsak Pichetshote and illustrated and colored by Jesse Lonergan.

A group of emotional support animals on a space ship searching for a new habitable planet crash lands on an unknown planet. Not knowing what has happened, the animals use their experimental tech to find and save their human loved ones.

Man’s Best #1 is Homeward Bound meets original series Star Trek. I love the innocence of the animals and the mystery of this uncharted planet. The art has this great cartoon-like aspect to it which sucks you into this world. I’m really excited to see where this story goes!

[Thaddeus Tuffentsamer · Rating 5 out of 5]

When three service animals have been trained as soldiers and find themselves on a spaceship, where their humans have been abducted, they seek out to find them.

That is the basis of the first issue, it was well written, and has a beautiful art style. This is going to be a fun series to follow.

[Colin Post · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is so full of joy, hope, and wonder - it’s infectious. Some of the story themes are delivered a bit directly, which put me off slightly at first, but it’s totally the vibe of this book. As Pichetshote describes in the essay at the end of the issue, this (thanks in no small part to Lonergan’s gorgeous illustrations) is a Pixar movie in comic book form. This is going to be some adventure.

[Chris Bromley · Rating 5 out of 5]

This issue was so sweet and lovely (like Lovely himself). It also went a slightly different way to how I thought it was going to. Really looking forward to the next issue now

[Sara Zia · Rating 4 out of 5]

CUTE. Homeward Bound is space is about right. I’m interested enough to check out issue 2 when it releases to see where it goes.

[Aron · Rating 4 out of 5]

Solid first issue, Pornsak does a great job of laying the foundation for the series. Don't know where this headed Definitely gonna pick up issue #2.

[Kay ☾ · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was initially drawn to the first issue of Man's Best because of its captivating cover art. Instead of reading it issue by issue, I'll wait until the first volume is released to dive in all at once.

[Barbie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Porque no lo encontré entero🥲 solo es la primera parte