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Talkin' Bout Busiek: Astro City #1 and #1/2
Screw It, We're Just Gonna Talk About Comics
English - July 20, 2022 07:00 - 53 minutes - 49.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 252 ratingsVisual Arts Arts comic comedy funny news culture interviews interview science business health Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
We saved (one of) the best for last: Astro City. This is Kurt's masterpiece. Along with artist Brent Anderson and cover artist/collaborator Alex Ross, Kurt created an entire superhero universe for Astro City. The characters are a combination of analogues of very popular superhero "types" (we see a Superman-ish person, a Spider-Man ish hero, a Justice League, a Fantastic Four), but also characters who don't fit cleanly into any box. What is true of every character in Astro City is they are: human, emotional, moving, surprising and impressively thought-through. Astro City is to superhero comics what Speilberg movies are to adventure serials: better, deeper more moving versions of the old tropes --- done with joy and love and excitement. We dig a bit into two issues: #1 ("Flying") and #1/2 ("The Nearness of You") which is one of the Milksops' favorite issues of comic book of ANY genre and series. Hope you like it!
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