Comics Review: "SPACE GHOST Volume 2 #5" Has Somethin' Fishy

SPACE GHOST VOL. 2 #5

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; Michael Cho; Francesco Mattina

32pp, Color, $4.99 U.S. (November 2025)

Rated “Teen”

“Assault on Planet Glasstor!”

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.  Space Ghost shared his television series with a second feature, entitled “Dino Boy in the Lost Valley.”  Space Ghost was designed by cartoonist and comic book artist, Alex Toth (1928-2006), who created the character with Hanna-Barbera's founders, William Hanna (1910-2001) and Joseph Barbera (1911-2006).

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 2, it is written by David Pepose; drawn by Jonathan Lau; colored by Andrew Dalhouse; and lettered by Taylor Esposito.  In the new series, The Space Ghost and his surrogate children, the twins Jan and Jace Keplar, and their monkey, Blip, fight the forces of darkness across the vastness of space.

Space Ghost Volume 2 #5 (“Assault on Planet Glasstor!”) opens with the ongoing war between the Shard-People of the Crystalline Empire of Glasstor and the Kingdom of the Space Sharks from the blood-red waters of Planet Liquo now at its hottest heat.  The conflict was seemingly about to come to an end with a peace deal when an assassination attempt on the Space Sharks' King Remora reignited the war into a blood feud.

Jace has been blamed for being an ally of Emperor Glasstor and for being the assassin.  Now, King Remora plans to unleash his mysterious planet-killing weapon, “Neptune's Wrath” against Glasstor.  Space Ghost must convince Glasstor's Emperor to hold the peace, but the cosmic vigilante also has his other troubles.  Meanwhile, Jan has taken matters into her own hands – some very capable and pugnacious hands.

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 #5, Volume Two is one that I have received, but it is not the first Space Ghost comic book that I have read.

This fifth issue of the second volume of Space Ghost gives us the conclusion to the thrilling two-part story of interplanetary war between a water world and a world of crystal.  Last issue's cliffhanger was sure to bring readers back for more, and if those readers did return, their reward is more of writer David Pepose's space opera intensity.  Kudos to him for giving Jan the chance to let the thug out in the middle of this very busy chapter.

Series artist Jonathan Lau delivered a pot boiler in the first chapter, and this issue, he throws gasoline on fire.  Why boil the narrative pot when you can burn down the kitchen?  The result is that this issue seethes like an epic tale of war and betrayal should.  Andrew Dalhouse's colors are the perfect accompaniment to this tale of Space Ghost's gritty determination of the twins' fierce and fighting spirit.  As expected, Taylor Esposito's lettering creates  a sense of a thunderous soundtrack for this closing chapter of this excellent two-part tale.

I highly recommend Space Ghost Volume 2, dear readers.  If you want good, you want this.

I READS YOU RECOMMENDS:  Fans of Dynamite Entertainment's Warner Bros. comic book series will want to read Space Ghost Volume Two.

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Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"

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