Astro City, MetroBook 3
Creator(s): Kurt Busiek | Brent Anderson | Alex Ross |
Medium: book | comic |
Date Reviewed: 19 May 2023
Rating: ❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤
This is new Astro City material for me, even though it’s been around for a while. There’s still a lot of what makes Astro City great in the long “Dark Ages” story, but not enough to make it shine. I think I like Astro City best when it takes a quick dive into an interesting story, plays with some tropes, and just hints at a broader world and continuity. This tries to explain too much and be too connected, and in doing so, I think it loses a lot of the magic. I also felt nervous the whole time about a white creative team working with two black protagonists; it felt like it skirted the edge of stereotype sometimes.
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