The Kurt Busiek Universe Comes To Image

[ripclaw]

That's the plan, yes.

It'll take 6 volumes to collect everything up to the Vertigo issue 52.

Hopefully, there'll be more volumes after that, once we've produced enough new material to fill them up.


kdb

Dear Mr Busiek

Will there be any plans to collect the Metrobooks into Deluxe oversized HC's? Thanks.

[Kurt Busiek]

Will there be any plans to collect the Metrobooks into Deluxe oversized HC's? Thanks.

We're planning to do oversized shmancy hardcovers, but not of the MetroBooks.

kdb

[ripclaw]

We're planning to do oversized shmancy hardcovers, but not of the MetroBooks.

kdb

Thank you! Looking forward to it.

[jwatson]

Has any of this been released yet? Going to need some stuff to read tomorrow after gardening.

[MRP]

Has any of this been released yet? Going to need some stuff to read tomorrow after gardening.

the first Metrobook collection of Astro city is out, as is the Astro City Special. The first 2 or 3 issues of Arrowsmith are out as well.

-M

[jwatson]

the first Metrobook collection of Astro city is out, as is the Astro City Special. The first 2 or 3 issues of Arrowsmith are out as well.

-M

Thanks appreciate it. If I don't check it out tomorrow definitely will Thursday. Kind of excited.

[Thundershot]

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!

[Kurt Busiek]

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!

Glad you're liking it!

kdb

[Kirby101]

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.

[dornwolf]

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!

Picked up a copy. Read the whole thing in a day. Felt so wonderfully lived in, like the characters had existed for years and this was just a revamp kind of project that worked out really well.

[Kirby101]

Picked up a copy. Read the whole thing in a day. Felt so wonderfully lived in, like the characters had existed for years and this was just a revamp kind of project that worked out really well.

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:

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.

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[Johnny Thunders!]

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.

[Kirby101]

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.

[gurkle]

We're planning to do oversized shmancy hardcovers, but not of the MetroBooks.

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.

[Cyberstrike]

One of my favorite stories was Astro City #1/2.

spoilers:

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.

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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.