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In the recent Astro City: That Was Then #1 Special, Kurt Busiek and Brent Anderson previewed their upcoming non-Astro City graphic novel The Gods On Sunday Morning, stating "while it's not set in the world of Astro City, it's still the kind of thing we think Astro City readers will like It takes a similar[...]

Kurt Busiek, Brent Anderson, Alex Ross, Alex Sinclair, and Comicraft bring back Astro City with a new one-shot scheduled from Image Comics in March 2022 with Astro City: That Was Then And a host of Image creators welcome the series back to Image—where it all began—with a lineup of variant covers by Erik Larsen, Marcelo[...]

Those properties include Astro City, Arrowsmith, Autumnlands, and more new projects This week, Image unveiled the plans for new work in the Kurt Busiek Universe in a press release so large it would have been frankly irresponsible for us to use it to write just one single article. First up, Busiek and superstar artist Carlos Pacheco[...]

Back in September last year, Bleeding Cool broke the news that DC Comics had pulled Kurt Busiek's Astro City from ComiXology digital comic publisher This was one of a number of similar moves, including DC pulling Brian Bendis' creator-owned books off ComiXology as well, as part of internal machinations at the publisher that filled headlines[...]

I remember this, the Alex Ross Astro City poster popping out of an issue of Wizard Magazine, featuring all the main characters from the series, as a promotional piece that really worked And the original pencils for that double splash of a poster page, are now up for auction as part of their 2021 January[...]

Recently, Kurt Busiek gave a number of PR-friendly interviews regarding the return of his superhero worldbuilding series with Brent Anderson, Astro City, as an original graphic novel Of late, Astro City has been published by DC Comics after they bought its former publisher, WildStorm But it has been through a few imprints and publishers –[...]

When you have to call in Myphisto to bail you out of your marriage — there's a problem. What if, with Spider-Gwen, what if Mary Jane met this mice German guy named Otto and became Doc Wat, and then went back to try to claim her Peter?" Brent talking about working with Strazynski on Astro City Brent spoke[...]

Credit: Vertigo FremantleMedia North America is going from flawed gods to all-too-human heroes, with the American Gods producer having acquired the rights to develop writer Kurt Busiek and artists Brent Anderson and Alex Ross's superhero comic book series Astro City as a live-action television series Busiek and Rick Alexander will pen the pilot; and executive produce[...]

The DC solicitations will be out soon, but writer Kurt Busiek gave fans a sneak peak when it comes to Astro City, his creator-owned Vertigo series with Brent Anderson and Alex Ross According to Busiek, April's Astro City #52 will be the final issue of Astro City as a monthly series Over a hundred issues of[...]

She also talked about how Jon Davis-Hunt's artwork changed her mind about swearing off redheads for a while. "Is this going to be amazing having a video game designer/artist, designing the clean room? The answer is yes." The question was asked – what if Kurt Busiek went into the clean room? What would come out? Busiek replied "cleanliness". Simone countered "comic trivia". Kurt[...]

This week's comics include: Green Arrow #34 Godzilla: Cataclysm #1 Astro City #14 Hexed #1 Green Arrow #34 (DC Comics, $2.99) By Graig Kent "The New 52" botched up a lot of things in its reboot of the DC Universe, but the biggest botch job had to be on Green Arrow.  By its third issue the original writer J.T Krul was off[...]

Say, DC Women Kicking Ass, I'd love your take on this week's Astro City It raises the very big problem of a woman raised as an icon submitting to the assistance of men, but it also gets in a few gags, in superheroic women gags Is it having its cake and eating it? And what[...]

Superman Unchained, Batman Zero Year,  Astro City, Fabulous Killjoys and Six Gun Gorilla all benefit from that, and retailers look minded to up their orders on Image and Vertigo launches, Ghosted and Collider. And for books that have already been published, a new print of Johnny The Homicidal Maniac is gathering many, many orders, as retailers[...]

Not only was Bob Wayne in London talking about how another artist working with David Finch on Dark Knight would keep it on track. But Bleeding Cool has learnt that, despite solicitations, one of the major books of the DC Relaunch, Action Comics written by Grant Morrison will not have its second issue[...]

Kurt Busiek and Brent Anderson's Astro City will relaunch with a new #1 and from then on be a monthly title, UK retailers were told today at the DC Retailer Conference in London, UK It has been decided not to relaunch the series too close to the New 52 Launch as it, naturally, has its[...]

Apparently not. The car of Astro City artist Brent Anderson was broken into at the San Diego Zoo today and large stacks of his original artwork was stolen Two hundre  pages in all, totalling five figures. Buyers and dealers are asked to look out for anyone selling original art in large chunks from Astro City, Green[...]