As is the trend with most of my posts, I read Astro City: Life in the Big City by Kurt Busiek for my Scripting for Comics class. It's definitely unique and a great read and I'm glad that I bought it because I'll look forward to loaning it to some people so they can read it.
The story is definitely not your comic for children as I think it brings about a whole bunch of themes that kids wouldn't understand or even interest them. The whole way that Busiek tells the story of the rest of the superhero world. It's all just as interesting as the pieces about the battles between the superheros and their villains. I keep thinking that it would have been REALLY interesting to have had City of Heroes based in this universe, with such a well thought out history and universe I think it could have really benefited the game greatly and added as well to the story of Astro City. Overall, it's a pretty quick read but with depth that will astound you and worth checking out. Oh and I commented on it in class, but the art is very well done and the colors are amazing.
In class we were asked what our favorite "scene" was and I wasn't able to answer because I hadn't finished it yet but I'd go with Safeguards. I'm not particularly sure why but something just resonated with me in that story. I also really liked the Reconnaissance story.
I also noticed that Astro City is published by the WildStorm branch of DC Comics which is the group that has been doing all the video game related comics.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Astro City: Life in the Big City
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