Written by Kurt Busiek
Art by Brent Anderson
Covers by Alex Ross
It's a big turning point for Astra Furst, the third-generation Super Hero of Astro City! Last we saw her, she was a 10-year-old girl playing hopscotch. Today she's graduating from college. It's a time of friends and family, new opportunities, new dangers, and changing relationships. Featuring the First Family, the creatures of Monstro City, a new hero team and more in a graduation night nobody's ever going to forget!
And in issue #2, while most people celebrate their college graduation by going to dinner, Astra and her boyfriend celebrate hers with a trip into The Gordian Knot, a cosmic caldera teeming with strange life and unusual encounters. It was meant to be a party, but for Astra, who has lived her whole life in the glare of the spotlight dealing with the bizarre and unexpected, it becomes much, much more!
Date Available: 09/30/2009
BONUS REVIEW by GARY OWENS
Busiek’s Astro City is back on schedule, with a short detour as it concentrates on First Family’s “kid” daughter Astra on her college graduation night. Busiek has his own style of handing out information, of setting the stage. Sometimes it works, though here, for a third of the issue, it doesn’t, feeling forced, like stuff is planted just because it needed to be told. Yet I like the downtime, the lack of shocking villainy, as the universe is admired, and character relations take center stage. Maybe not for everyone, but for me, it was a nice rest before the journey starts again.
