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by: Kurt Busiek, Brent E. Anderson, Alex Ross
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781563895517
ISBN: 156389551X
Label: Wildstorm
Manufacturer: Wildstorm
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: June 23, 1999
Publisher: Wildstorm
Release Date: June 23, 1999
Sales Rank: 180211
Studio: Wildstorm
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Product Description:
This first Astro City volume looks at a day in the life of the Samaritan, the worlds busiest super-hero; an invasion of underground dwellers that is thwarted by the super-team the Honor Guard; a small-time criminals growing paranoia as he comes to believe that the colourful hero called the Jack-in-the-Box is after him; plus stories introducing the First Family, the Hanged Man, Winged Victory, and many others.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Uhhh....It was okay.
Let me start with this: I am not a big comics fanatic. I read some of these bigger collections from time to time for entertainment, but I've never been to a comic book shop, I don't own a Green Lantern shirt and there's no Superman sticker on my car.
But, I do know what I like and, for me, Astro City was an "okay" collection of new superheroes. This collections includes 5 stories, 2 of which I found tedious. In the intro, Busiek claims to want to get back to basics and stop the "deconstruction" ... Read More
Rating:  - Excellent start to a brilliant series
If you like your superhero stories told with a realistic approach and you haven't read Astro City yet, you're in for a treat. The stories range from good to great. I have yet to read one that's complete garbage and I don't expect I ever will. This volume collects the first six issues.
The standout stories being "The Scoop", a greatest story never told, "Reconnaissance", the story of Cracker Jack, the world's luckiest super hero and whether or not Earth is worth sparing, and "Dinner at Eight" ... Read More
Rating:  - Graphic SF Reader
Kurt Busiek's Astro City is told from a slightly different viewpoint, some of the time. Often we are looking through the eyes of a normal denizen of the City rather than one of the heroes. This book introduces some of the important super characters though, and although homages to Superman, Wonder Woman, the Fantastic Four and others, they do stand on their own.
Rating: - Simply awesome super-hero comics
All you really need to know about Astro City is that these are some of the most enjoyable superhero comics being written today.
Kurt Busiek has an exceptional talent for combining imaginative stories with believeable characters and intelligent writing, resulting in one of the most original and enjoyable re-imaginings of superheroes since "The Dark Knight Returns" and "Watchmen" -- and without a hint of the predictible (and predictably excessive) camp, irony, "grit" or grimness that characterize ... Read More
Rating: - A fun read...!!
A DC-reading friend of mine has been after me for years to check this title out... So I *finally* did, and it's great fun. Kurt Busiek, who brought the Marvel heroes down to earth in the acclaimed "Marvels" series, again looks at the capes through the eyes of the regular citizenry, but this time it's in the fabled streets of Astro City, a place with more superbeings per square mile than anyplace ever seen before. Busiek revels in the giddy, kitschy, high-flying storytelling style of the classic comicbooks of ... Read More
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