A TEAM OF SOLDIERS IS TRAPPED BEHIND ENEMY LINES — BUT WHO IS THE ENEMY?
After being shot down in the middle of a war zone, five Thunderan warriors are fighting for their lives. Together they face a horde of heavily armored soldiers, and the team’s only hope is to somehow break through their lines to reach the wreckage of their ship.
Such overwhelming odds will strain their abilities to the absolute limit. But even if Pumyra, Lynx-O, Shen, Ligon, and their hammer-wielding commander Bengali make it out alive, will they still be able to complete their mission? And even more who is the mysterious antagonist who is hunting them — and what is his connection to the Book of Omens?
Author ED BRISSON and artist RAPHA LOBOSCO, the celebrated creative team behind Apex, present a never-before-seen side of the ThunderCats universe in Lost #1 — featuring extravagantly intriguing covers from an all-star roster of talent, including FELIPE MASSAFERA, CLAYTON HENRY, DECLAN SHALVEY, MARK BAGLEY, and JAE LEE & JUNE CHUNG!
Credits include: COMEBACK, SHELTERED, THE FIELD (Image Comics), SECRET AVENGERS (Marvel), ROBOCOP, SONS OF ANARCHY, HELLRAISER (BOOM!) and X-FILES/TMNT: CONSPIRACY (IDW). Plus, you know, a bunch of stuff I can’t talk about yet.
Reading Apex by the same creative team made me decide to start following the Thundercats: Lost series, as I generally like Rapha Lobosco's art (even though it's a bit uneven at times).
As for the story, some of it is familiar from the animated series of way back when, and some of it is reasonably reimagined. So in this instance, Bengali, Pumyra and Lynx-O (along with new additions Ligon and Neko) are not random Thunderians that the Thundercats could not save as they fled Thundera, but advance scouts sent years earlier than the flagship to try and discern whether Third Earth (in this version, a Thunderian penal colony for Mutants) could become the species' new home.
There are a few odd things going on, such as mentioning that Cats had not been seen on the planet for a thousand years, which is odd since Claudus had his soldiers lead the exiles there in Lion-O's lifetime, but this version of the Thundercats also has time travel involved so anything goes.
Other than that, this is a rather dark but well written installment.