Welcome to Astro City!

There's no way I can do this collection justice.

Kurt Busiek - writer of Marvels and Invincible - crafted an entire world, rich with totally original characters, all of whom have full backstories even if we don't quite know them all just yet. And in Astro City, Busiek explores the more - I'm trying to avoid the term realistic because Busiek in his introduction points out isn't right - human rather than super-human aspects of his world.

In the ever-growing pantheon of greatest superhero graphic novels and/or series, Astro City deserves a place right alongside Watchmen and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and a few others.

Some much more in-depth and detailed reviews:

• The 11th Hour
• The Friday Review
• TheLogBook

And I've already requested the three other Astro City collections: Family Album, Confessions, and Tarnished Angel.