Astro City Family Album TPB
by Kurt Busiek (Author), Brent Anderson (Artist), Alex Ross (Artist)
This one struck a powerful chord.
Although Astro City is an anthology series, so much of it is so easily accessible due to the use of fresh twists of familiar faces.
"Family Album" covers the second collection of the second volume of…
Astro City: Local Heroes TPB
by Kurt Busiek (Author), Brent E. Anderson (Illustrator)
The best part of Busiek, Ross and Anderson's Astro City is the fact that it gives a different perspective of superhero comics that upends how one reads them. Being an anthology series, it does not venture to create a coherent narrative between issues;…
Although the narrative is relatively simplistic - two factions caught in a game brought about by two gambling entities from opposing universes - Kurt Busiek and George Perez's JLA/Avengers four-issue miniseries delivers a crossover between the DC and Marvel universe in a way the actual DC versus Marvel failed to deliver.
While the latter was…
Aquaman is one of DC's pantheon that not only is massively underrated, but also has some wonderful runs that have largely flown under the radar for too long so much that sadly forced writers off these runs abandoning their project in mid flight.
When Kurt Busiek and Butch Guice undertook this title, DC was striving…