SPACE GHOST VOL. 1 #11
DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT
STORY: David Pepose
ART: Jonathan Lau
COLORS: Andrew Dalhouse
LETTERS: Taylor Esposito
EDITOR: Joseph Rybandt
COVER: Francesco Mattina
VARIANT COVER ARTISTS: Jae Lee with June Chung; Bjorn Barends; Anthony Marques
32pp, Color, $4.99 U.S. (March 2025)
Rated “Teen”
“Beware... The Council of Doom!”
Space Ghost is a superhero character created by the American animation studio and production company, Hanna-Barbera Productions. The character first appeared in the Saturday morning cartoon series, “Space Ghost,” which was originally broadcast on CBS from September 1966 to September 1967 for 20 episodes.
In his original incarnation, Space Ghost was a superhero whose base of operations was a small world known as “Ghost Planet.” He fought super-villains in outer space with his teen sidekicks, Jan and Jace, and their monkey, Blip. His main weapons were power bands he wore around his wrists and lower arms; the bands fired off multiple energy beam-based attacks, including heat, cold, and force, to name a few. Space Ghost could also fly, survive in space, and turn invisible (his “Inviso Power”). He also had a space ship known as “the Phantom Cruiser.”
Space Ghost sporadically appeared in various comic book publications over a fifty year period. Dynamite Entertainment has just launched a new Space Ghost comic book as part of its licensing agreement with Warner Bros. Entitled Space Ghost Volume 1, it is written by David Pepose; drawn by Jonathan Lau; colored by Andrew Dalhouse; and lettered by Taylor Esposito. In the new series, twins Jan and Jace Keplar and their pet monkey, Blip, meet that legendary cosmic vigilante known as “the Space Ghost.”
Space Ghost Volume One #11 (“Beware... The Council of Doom!”) opens on Planet Orkon, where a familiar foe is back in action. That works perfectly for Doctor Xander Ibal, the CEO OF Robo Corp. He placed a 5 million credits bounty on Space Ghost, and now he wants something that the vigilante hero has in his possession on Ghost Planet.
This time, however, Ibal does not want to hire just one super-villain that will likely fall before Space Ghost; he wants an entire gang of them. Enter the “Council of Doom.” Can Zorak, Moltar, General Metallus, the Creature King, the Widow, and Brak do together what they could not do separately?
Meanwhile, on the home front, Space Ghost has reached a crisis point, and Jan isn't taking it anymore. Will family drama be the thing that brings down the Space Ghost?
THE LOWDOWN: Since July 2021, Dynamite Entertainment's marketing department has been providing me with PDF review copies of some of their titles. Space Ghost #11, Volume One is a recent issue that I have received.
Oops, David Pepose did it again, but he's not that innocent. He knows how to hold his readers, thrill his readers, and kill his readers softly with his song. Having Space Ghost face his greatest adversaries, while facing his biggest domestic drama since the death of his family is a genius move that keeps this Space Ghost comic book in nova mode.
Artist Jonathan Lau, as always, turns Pepose's story into muscular comic book storytelling. This time Lau puts both the action and drama in full explosive mode. Lau has the knack to set the right tone for every scene and indeed, every panel. It is a winning formula for gripping storytelling. Andrew Dalhouse's lovely colors are still a raging inferno. He deserves some award notice for his work here. Letterer Taylor Esposito brings the sounds of battle and domestic disharmony to life with more of his strong lettering.
I'm having a blast reading Space Ghost Volume One, dear readers. I want you to enjoy this, too. Come on over; come on over, baby!
I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of Dynamite Entertainment's Warner Bros. comic book series will want to read Space Ghost Volume One.
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Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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