Four J’s and a Comic Episode 010 Greetings from Astro City

  After discussing of Kurt Busiek's and Alex Ross' graphic novel Marvels on their last podcast, the four J's move on to Astro City. Thematically similar to Marvels, for Astro City Busiek added Brett Anderson as the series artist while Alex Ross stayed on to provide character designs and covers.  In this podcast, the four J's discuss the first volume of Astro City subtitled Life in the Big City which introduces readers to the world of Astro City with six short stories.  Reviewed next is volume 3, subtitled Confession.  Confession was the first Astro City novel and followed a young man's journey to become a hero in Astro City.  Rereading this book, it is uncanny how much of Marvel Comics Civil War and Secret Invasion events mirrored subplots in Confession.  Busiek won an Eisner award for best writer for his work on Astro City, and we higly recomend that you give these books a read.