Writer: Kurt Busiek
Artist: Brent Anderson
First Publication: April 2014
Source: Comixology
Publisher: DC Comics
Collects issue #s 1-6
Graphic Novel Challenge #6
Great covers? Check (artist Alex Ross does fantastic covers). Great Writing? Check (Kurt Busiek is one the best-his run on Thunderbolts was amazing). Great Art? Check (I have been a big Brent Anderson fan over the years-some of the highlights were his work on X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills, Somerset Holmes, Ka-Zar the Savage, Strikeforce: Morituri, and many others). This creative team, along with inker Willie Blyberg, launched the Astro City series.
In the latest volume, Anderson began to ink himself. While the art is still excellent, I miss Blyberg’s inks. Busiek begins with a more metatextual story. The main character of the first story breaks the fourth wall to talk to the readers. The team turned in a great beginning to the latest volume. It’s a can’t miss for fans of character studies set in the world of super heroes.
Highly recommended.
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