Astro City Vol. 1: Life in the Big City
Volumes 1-6 of "Kurt Busiek's Astro City" are collected in this volume that also includes a sketchbook showing the development of Astro City a cover gallery of cover paintings.
Volumes 1-6 of "Kurt Busiek's Astro City" are collected in this volume that also includes a sketchbook showing the development of Astro City a cover gallery of cover paintings.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781563895517 (156389551X)
Publish date: June 23rd 1999
Publisher: Wildstorm
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
Series: Astro City (#1)
Astro City captures the sort of awe this superhero fiction lover has felt since being a young kid and watching shows and movies about superheroes. I grew up in the 80s and we had the Christopher Reeve Superman movies, which were huge for that time period. I watched them again a couple of months ag...
I love [b:Marvels|16982|Marvels|Kurt Busiek|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1300165177s/16982.jpg|265304]. It's one of the few graphic novels that I've read over and over, and loved every time. So it's hardly surprising that I also loved Astro City.I think the best and easiest way of desc...
i have a favorite fantasy, although it is more of a fantasy world or even a fantasy way of how a big city could look and feel. it is a version of 1940s/50s/early 60s america, but minus the stifling straight whiteness of it all, minus the prejudice and racism and sexism, and definitely minus the atro...
So, this finally concludes my borrowed pile of graphic novels. As a result I have become a fan of Kurt Busiek's graphic novel work. His work on [b:Marvels|16982|Marvels|Kurt Busiek|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1300165177s/16982.jpg|265304] is unparalleled in the Marvel Comicverse and his work here i...
Not nearly as entertaining as it should have been...