There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!
Just finished Arrowsmith BEL, An excellent series. Sorry to hear about the health woes of Kurt and Carlos, hope them an quick recovery.
I suffer from migraines myself, but it is manageable with medication. I truly feel for Mr Busiek. As for Carlos, wow, that is some scary, serious shit he is going through. We can just wish them all the best and have patience with thier books.
There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!
Carlos Pacheco (R.I.P.)
Got Metrobook v3 yesterday. Now we’re entering into territory when I stopped reading comics for many years. It also warmed my heart to see v4 solicited for September! I’m going to treasure having the whole run in this format. I hope we have some new material on the horizon as well. Thanks to Kurt and the team for crafting these stories!
I just finally preordered v4 Metrobook, but it says it has v3 issues 1-10, 17, and 22-24. Why are issues being skipped? These are books I’ve never read before and I don’t want incomplete collections!
They'll be in the next volume.
11-16 are all one thing and belong in the same book. But if Metro 4 had that arc in it, it'd be markedly longer than other volumes, and a later book would be kinda short.
So we juggled the contents a little. We've done this kind of thing ever since the second AS collection, CONFESSION, which skipped vol 2 issues 1-3, and then they showed up in the third collection, FAMILY ALBUM.
[In METROBOOK 1, they appear in publication order, because it's a bigger book and they all fit fine. But we re-ordered the stuff in METROBOOK 3, moving the Samaritan, Beautie and Astra specials to METRO 4 so we could have all of THE DARK AGE plus the SILVER AGENT two-parter in one volume together.]
So METROBOOK 5 will start with v3 issues 11-16, 18-21 and 25-something-or-other.
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Shocked no one posted this: The Opus Edition! (an actual Omnibus for December)
https://www.amazon.com/Astro-City-Op...s%2C187&sr=8-3
I totally love Volume 4 of Metrobook and I can’t believe that the Opus edition is going to happen.
Any chance of an Amazon series ever happening? Animated or live action!
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I think it’s really great the layout of the Metrobook. The full color Alex Ross cover is on the left and it leads straight into the Brent Anderson page one of the story. Those covers feel more like part of the story.
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