Space Ghost #1 (Dynamite, 2025)

Somehow it seems every week this show becomes me needing to try to get more people on the Space Ghost train and eventually I will run out of things to say about how perfect it is. 

SPACE GHOST #1, written by David Pepose, art by Jonathan Lau, colors by Andrew Dalhouse, and letters by Taylor Esposito.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome to First Issues now, the weekly show
posted daily ish about only the newest first issues released
by insert comic company. Here this week, I'll be looking
at the comics release for the week of August thirteenth,
twenty twenty five. So if you haven't heard any of
my praising of the Space Ghost series under Dave proposed,
then boy, howdy are you about to get some today?

(00:22):
This is technically to start of season two, so to
be clear, while this is a first issue, it's not
really the first issue of Space Ghost number one. Written
by David Popose, art by Jonathan Lyoe, colors by Andrew Dollhouse,
and letters by Taylor Esposito. The premise of this book
is that it is a direct ish follow up to
the events of the Space Coast Annuel that I covered

(00:44):
two weeks ago. I would probably say a month. I
don't know. Time is a flat circle for me at
this point. The general premise is the Space Ghost and
Blipper out fighting the Toy Maker while jan and Jays
are talking to their newly arrived grandfather who's now back
into their life and wants to be the legal guardian
of the twins. So I could get into how the
Space Ghoast fight with toy makers, all sorts of awesome,

(01:06):
reflecting who Space Ghost as a character is, his ideals
as a hero, and all the gray that he represents
while he saves these hostages. But honestly, that is just
the window dressing and the framework for the real meat
of this story, the familial and emotional aspects which make
up this book. The fact that there's a whole arc
of jan expressing why Dax or Space Ghost's real name

(01:29):
is their family more than this new random guy who
just comes in out of nowhere would be built on
what we've seen over the past thirteen issues of this series,
is why this is great. Two opine for a moment.
The reason that I praise Dave on Space Ghost is
because it is the hollow type for superhero comics. There

(01:50):
are spectacular fights, hard action, epic moments of sheer thrill,
but there is also the actual storytelling side of it. Yes,
you can tell a story in nothing but action. There's
a couple great comics that do so. But in long
term storytelling, it isn't the cool action that sticks around.
It's the human factor. It's Decks showing how he cares

(02:11):
for the kids, so that when a new storyline starts
and that gets called into question, Jan can be there
for five solid pages to tell what is arguably their
legal guardian why he can't just show up and have
the same gravitas as the person who's been there and
through his action shown that he is family. Yes, I'd
argue that that's also why many mainstream comics, if there

(02:34):
is even such a thing anymore, fail to hold an
audience after the first issue, and why, having now gotten
to fourteen issues into this story, Popose still has me invested.
So anyways, As for the art, it's still the toppest
of the top tiers. The action again is still hard hitting,
The inventiveness of the Toymaker's death traps and robot is

(02:55):
brilliant design and layout. Honestly, there's also a really sweet
panel the Toymaker or shuffling space ghosts in as playing
cards that I just kind of think is super freaking cool,
and yet it also shows the talent of these artists.
We can have the same art style feel just as
weighty and hard hitting in the talking scenes as it
does in the fighting scenes. God, I love this book

(03:17):
and you should too, So my verdict has been will
be and currently is. Collect it Collective means that it
should be on your pull list digitally as well as
on your pull list physically. You should have all the
issues up to this point, and you should get all
the variant covers or at least no dupes, although I
am trying to get all the virgin covers personally and honestly,
Propose has been knocking it out of the part everywhere,

(03:40):
So check out his other stuff, even if I can't
remember which company they're for sometimes and now, all I
just need is Dynamite to message me about getting my
Secret Squirrel relaunch off the ground. Contact me and my
business email The comic arkivis at gmail dot com. Is
this a joke? Who knows? But maybe I'm wrong. Let
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