This volume isn’t quite as good as the last (mostly because of the filler material that it concludes with), and it has some of the same problems with trying to do diversity but sometime undermining itself. However, I still think the best superhero stories are the ones that pick at and play with tropes, and I haven’t seen anyone do that better than this series.

• Astro City
• comics
• Alex Ross
• Kurt Busiek
• Brent Anderson
• tropes
• superheroes