Astro City #18

Astro City has been on a roll but with issue 18, writer Kurt Busiek has begun a journey that has a new depth. Anderson's art is spot on as usually but it is the subject matter that puts this storyline into a new light. Everyone comes to a point in their life when life stops giving you things and starts taking them away. Busiek's story takes us to that very edge when life starts taking back. We've all seen super-heroes retire, grow old, die. But I really can't recall seeing a story when I got to see the process begin specially in detail. Old familiar haunts don't feel or smell right to us anymore. Sometimes those people, places, things are not even there anymore. You find yourself too young to quit or retire but not old enough to keep up anymore with the world around you. This has all he elements of a real gut wrenching tear-jerker that should definitely be on some list for an award in the comics field.