Astronauts in Trouble: Live from the Moon

Larry Young’s Astronauts in Trouble: Live from the Moon, published by Gun Dog Comics from 1999, is a five-issue series that reimagines the space race as a grimy, media-saturated frontier. With artwork by Matt Smith and Charlie Adlard, it follows a down-on-its-luck lunar news crew covering the final, desperate mission of a bankrupt Moon base. A cult-classic blend of hardboiled journalism and retro-futurism, it matters for its gritty, human-scale take on space exploration, long before such themes became common in comics.