Life in the Big City
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marycatelliAstro City Vol. 1: Life in the Big City by Kurt Busiek
A collection of the opening -- six stand-alone tales.
And while some are stories, some aren't really. Because what this volume is about is not so much the particular actions and characters involved in each issue, it's about what it would really be like to live in a world with superheroes. Not on a practical, nuts-and-bolts world-building level. But what would it feel like?
So we have points of view. A superhero or two, a reporter, a low-life crook, a bystander, and a -- something I won't tell you because it's spoilery.
Astro City is home to the usual miscellany of characters (and origins) that you find in a typical superhero-supporting universe. But the treatment he gives them is nothing like it. An intriguing collection.
A collection of the opening -- six stand-alone tales.
And while some are stories, some aren't really. Because what this volume is about is not so much the particular actions and characters involved in each issue, it's about what it would really be like to live in a world with superheroes. Not on a practical, nuts-and-bolts world-building level. But what would it feel like?
So we have points of view. A superhero or two, a reporter, a low-life crook, a bystander, and a -- something I won't tell you because it's spoilery.
Astro City is home to the usual miscellany of characters (and origins) that you find in a typical superhero-supporting universe. But the treatment he gives them is nothing like it. An intriguing collection.
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Date: 2014-02-11 06:01 am (UTC)...Is it all that predictable? The "tragic" twist was predicable if you simply assume the author isn't a total ass in his ripping off Captain America.
I may be a bit tainted by uttelry hating the 'twist' of "The heroes are just people doing what they can, and they weren't magical pony dust, so I'll ate them to the point of killing an innocent man who saved my life TWICE because he wasn't the magical guy I imagined. Even though he never claimed he was, and all the problems I attribute to them were basic lack of information, including the one where I fought hard to withhold information."
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Date: 2014-02-11 01:25 pm (UTC)Though that arc is indeed well named the "Dark Age".