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Has any of this been released yet? Going to need some stuff to read tomorrow after gardening.
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So, I got my copy of the Metrobook the other day. I figured I would read one issue a night before I go to sleep. I forgot how much I LOVED this series. I know it’s over twenty five years late, but kudos to the entire creative team!
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Arrowsmith is just so damn good. Some of the best world building I have seen in a long time. And outstanding art and story to boot.
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!
That is what make Astro City so special to comic book fans. We know the tropes and Kurt gives us just enough to fill in the blanks while writing compelling characters and stories.
The latest issue is an example. spoilers:end of spoilers
We know the teen group didn't die, we know there is some interdimensional voodoo going on. So he doesn't keep the mystery from us, but gives us enough while making it about the characters.
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!
I just re-read “Everyday Life” from the Astro City Metrobook. I am excited to reread the whole series and catch up on the new books. I think Astro City belongs on the shelf next to Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing or Neil Gaimans Sandman. Since it’s still ongoing, maybe it’s more like Love and Rockets or Stray Bullets. Anyhow, a must read series.
Arrowsmith #5, another stellar issue. It is too bad much of fandom can't get past the infinite Batman titles to discover a first rate comic like this. It shows what the medium can do outside of superheroes.
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!
I hope you can get the reproduction issue with the first Metrobook fixed when these issues appear in hardcover. It's great to have the issues in one book and with the covers coming before the story instead of after, but they could look better and I'll happily get a hardcover version if they do.
One of my favorite stories was Astro City #1/2.
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Which was about a normal man who is having dreams of a beautiful woman that he's never met and a hero like the Hanged Man (I think that was the name of a character he's a Spectre/Phantom Stranger style hero) who tells him that the events of a Crisis on Infinite Earths style mega event has caused the heroes to reset the universe and the woman he's been dreaming of was his wife but because of the events of the cosmic/time war her parents never met and now she never existed and for various reasons the hero has to erase his memories of her because it could drive him insane or screw up the universe again. The man refuses because those dreams are all that remain of his wife and if he acts crazy or this becomes a threat the hero can then remove the memories and the hero agrees and leaves and the man now has pleasant dreams of a wife that no longer exists.
It reminded me of The Twilight Zone and I love the bittersweet ending and how it showed the aftermath of a cosmic event on normal human level.
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