![]() The book feels like you’re visiting an actual living place, with its own history and people and events that happen in between the stories you get to see. One of the things I loved about Astro City back then and continue to love today is how easy it is to go in and out of the world (there’s even a sign at the end of every arc, letting you know you are now leaving Astro City, a touch I’ve long appreciated). ![]() I think I ended up with like Astro City #1, 3, and 4 out of the first six issues, and I read them over and over and over, taking in the mostly stand-alone stories until I had them almost memorized. And while the ideas and feelings were mature, the book ignored the edgy mature aesthetics that dominated the time. Astro City was in some ways also a perfect comic for a young reader, one who didn’t have steady income or money to buy comics every month. ![]() They moved through perspectives and neighborhoods and eras of time. ![]() The stories felt fully-realized in ways I’d never seen and couldn’t articulate back then. Astro City was one of the first comics that expanded my understanding of the medium past the X-Men and Spider-Man, Batman and Superman, etc. By Zack Quaintance - I’m going to go ahead and date myself by revealing that I’ve been reading Astro City comics for more than 20 years, going all the way back to when I was a young-ish kid, certainly before I could drive. ![]()
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