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Astro City, Vol. 1: Life in the Big City
by Kurt Busiek
Simply amazing. I don’t believe comic books have to be about superheroes to be good, however Astro City Vol. 1 shows that the medium has a natural link with the genre.
Astro City uses the stories and tropes of the super hero genre to examine the super hero genre. It has this in common with Watchmen, where archetypes of super heroes are used and subverted to tell a whole new story of it’s own. However where Watchmen is a long and dark tale, Astro City is light and brief one.
This first volume tells six stand alone stories that only interlink on an thematic and world building level. Different stories show different parts of the city and different aspects of the super heroes that inhabit it.
Every 30 page story is a masterclass in short form story telling, using every page to it’s fullest extend. The art in this book is simply astounding, every page turn gives a new delicately painted canvas. Even fight scenes are drawn thoughtfully, which can only be created due to a true passion for the super hero genre.
Astro City uses the stories and tropes of the super hero genre to examine the super hero genre. It has this in common with Watchmen, where archetypes of super heroes are used and subverted to tell a whole new story of it’s own. However where Watchmen is a long and dark tale, Astro City is light and brief one.
This first volume tells six stand alone stories that only interlink on an thematic and world building level. Different stories show different parts of the city and different aspects of the super heroes that inhabit it.
Every 30 page story is a masterclass in short form story telling, using every page to it’s fullest extend. The art in this book is simply astounding, every page turn gives a new delicately painted canvas. Even fight scenes are drawn thoughtfully, which can only be created due to a true passion for the super hero genre.