ASTRO CITY #28 was another great spotlight issue in the Mighty Busiek manner! I have a particular weakness for secret identities, Batman-and-Robin analogues, and plot twists, so this graphic novel is bliss.Pretty cool volume. Writer Kurt Busiek has written some excellent stories for some of comics most well known figures, such as the Avengers and Justice League. Used to collect Astro City when it first came out, so this wasn't a new discovery. I really liked the story of Confessor and Altar Boy.
Kurt Busiek is an American comic book writer. Please try again. Our fear. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. The art by Brent Anderson fits very well and his Confessor is brilliant. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Select your address DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore The members of the Crossbreeds have similarly clever nods to their namesakes: Daniel as a lion-like creature and Joshua with a sonic wail that could presumably bring downs walls, among others.The first long story in Astro City and it's great. Confession is a fantastic storyline that is almost too big at times but always comes back nicely to Brian Kinney, the Altar Boy. I finished it two days ago, and I'm still marveling at the fact that Busiek was able to combine vampirism, alien invasion, superhuman registration, serial killings and summer mob violence into a Batman analog. So far, everything that I'd read of Astro City had been, essentially, short stories. In 1995,writer Kurt Busiek,along with artists Brent Anderson and Alex Ross began "Astro City",a recurring anthology series centered around a major American city where superheroes and masked vigilantes,many of them variations on the archetypes created by the many superhero comic book publishers like DC and Marvel,serve and protect their city.Many of these stories are about the heroes … From DC & Neil Gaiman, The Sandman arises only on Audible. The first time I saw Francis Bacon's "Figure with Meat" at the Art Institute in Chicago. The series is an anthology that focuses on different characters living within Astro City and the stories are usually narrated from a first person perspective from the story's protagonist. I think this volume was more emotional and much darker than Life in the Big City.Kurt Busiek shifts gears, going from an anthology series to a long form story. This second book is actually even better, telling an entire contiguous story instead of a series of (excellent) shorter stories.I Confess, when flipping through the pages and seeing a Batman-like superhero named The Confessor who dresses like a sinister priest and has strange hypnotic powers and a resentful Robin-like sidekick named Altar Boy... the whole thing looked so goofy at first glance.
"Welcome to the Big City" in Volume 2 #1 was a top vote-getter for the Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Award for Favorite Comic-Book Story for 1997. My question, since I have one, is this: With all the vast quantities of great characters you’ve created for ASTRO CITY, why did you give us Triathlon and Silverclaw for the Avengers? Please try again Astro City is set in a world where superheroeshave existed since at least the 19th century: the first public hero, Air Ace, appeared soon after World War I. Busiek, Anderson and Ross have crafted a complex world with a huge cast of characters, many of whom have extensive backstories sketched out which are revealed as the series progresses. They’re baaaaaaack!
It isn't often that something comes along and immerses my entire being in it, so perfect that it feels like I am living it.