The editor is NOT the secretary from Shadow Hill, she is NOT the paranoid lowlife who is NOT the spying old man. While there are similarities in narration that may be inevitable coming from the same writer, the editor's story is barely comparable to Phil's from 'Marvels'. I cannot recall EVER getting bored reading 'Astro City'. I suppose if Marvels is your bag, you'll love Astro City - if like me you didn't enjoy Marvels, you definitely won't like this one.Īstro City Life In The Big City TP New Ed (Kurt Busiek's Astro City) It's not that it's badly written, it's just a really dull read. It's exactly the same formula as Marvels minus the Alex Ross art, though Brent Anderson's art is a long way from impressive either. It doesn't help that the narrators are bland and uninteresting or that the superheroes are equally dull, but the stories feel decidedly one note - narrator tells you their ordinary life, a superhero saves them from a crime of some sort, the end.

The comparison to Marvels isn't immediately apparent as the first story is told from the perspective of the Superman analogue but from then on we get a string of ordinary people telling you their stories encountering superheroes in their everyday lives, one of whom - the newspaper editor - seemed exactly like the Marvels narrator. The city is full of Busiek-created superheroes, all of them analogues of DC/Marvel characters (and forgettable to boot) and the chapters are told from the perspective of different narrators in the fictional town of Astro City. I got further than I did with Marvels but I also gave up on this one too - it's essentially Marvels with a different artist. More recently I read Superman: Secret Identity and finally saw why Busiek is praised, so I decided to try another of his books, the critically acclaimed Astro City from 1995. Terrible art - I don't like Ross' ultra-realistic painted style, the figures are too static - and boring characters telling unimpressive superhero stories made me drop the book long before the end. I got about a third of the way through before I gave up. It feels like superheroes could exist in our world! is the general sentiment around that book. |y .i55530734 |i 33029061457560 |l nntag |s - |k |u 56 |x 1 |w 0 |v 15 |t 0 |z 08-13-08 |o - |a GRAPHIC NOVEL Busiek, K.A couple of years ago I tried reading Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross' Marvels, a book I was assured was a superhero classic and an incredible comic. |a Science fiction comic books, strips, etc. |a 'Originally published as Kurt Busiek's astro city volume 2 #1-3 and #10-13'- T.p.

|a La Jolla, CA : |b Homage Comics, |c c1998. |a Kurt Busiek's Astro City : |p Family album / |c Kurt Busiek, writer Brent Eric Anderson, penciler Will Blyberg, inker Comicraft's John Roshell, lettering & design Alex Sinclair, color art Alex Ross, covers Busiek, Anderson & Ross, Chamber of Commerce.

Astro City, Vol. 1 by Kurt Busiek