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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781563895524
ISBN: 1563895528
Label: Wildstorm
Manufacturer: Wildstorm
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: June 23, 1999
Publisher: Wildstorm
Release Date: June 23, 1999
Sales Rank: 421956
Studio: Wildstorm
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99% of the people who see the cover of Astro City Family Album think (like I did before I read the comics; I came to it all very late) that the clown on this cover is as evil a villain as Stephen King's It. But he's not; he's arguably Busiek's & Crew's greatest creation: Jack-in-the-Box. His story is the most memorable part of this collection. He's a man who's coming to terms with very scary elements of himself that have somehow preceded him into the future and come back now to visit, and they ... Read More
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The third of Kurt Busiek's Astro City collections is a little quieter. This focus is basically as the title suggest, on the family moments of some of the heroes of Astro City. This includes one of the First Family, and also Jack In The Box, as he decides which way that he wants to go with his life after an incident one night that shakes him up.
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After all the dark and depressing stories by the big two (Marvel and DC)finally comics that stir the childhood wonder again. Of course these are very well written by adults.
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This book contains the first story arch of Astro City. In the previous issues, it was literally issue to issue, no to be continued endings, but this has it. The first arch shows the life of a 10 year old girl who is a super hero and struggles to cope with how she is different from normal girls. The second is of Jack In The Box (the dude on the cover) and how his pregnant wife will have a child who might grow up hating his father for dying when he meets 3 people from potential futures. 2 of which were ... Read More
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Astro City is a city filled with superpowered beings. You can't walk from street to street without noticing at least one meta-human, if you're an inhabitant of the city. But not so like most 'superhero-titles' the focus here isn't only on the heroes and their deeds, but on the regular people who live (and try to cope with all the supernatural activities around them) there as well. It tells about their personal lives as well as about the events they all witness.
This Trade-Paperback is the first Astro ... Read More
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