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Astro City, Vol. 1: Life in the Big City by Kurt Busiek

4.0

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There is a humanizing quality that operates on the superhero playing field, not the human one (unlike Top Ten). This is a wonderful breakdown of what it's like to be a superhero and a civilian in a city of heroes and villains. In a lot of ways, it's the narratives of those characters in the background, finally taking the spotlight. It seems like such an overdone meta theme, but it's so honest here without the dramatic interludes. It has all the absurdity, all the wackiness, all the sass, of actual comics. It's such a fun, fantastic read.