Astro City - 4

Here are some more pics from the comic series Astro City. The series is written by Kurt Busiek. The artists are Alex Ross and Brent Anderson. In my dreams i fly, is the opening line of one of the best series of all time. This talks about the lives of super heroes and most of the super heroes mentioned in this series actually resembles one or another character from marvel or DC universe.

there is samaritan who is this series's version of super man. there is the confessor, kind of like batman. then there is the silver agent, whose story is kind of similar to that of captain america. there is also jack-in-the-box, who is a clown themed super hero.

Do not get me wrong, at first glance these characters might look like they are similar to superman or batman or captain america, but they are absolutely complete characters on their own rights, with well written story of their own. the most tragic story belongs to the silver agent, who is a time traveler.

here it looks like one of the biggest heroes in this world is actually on the roof top to save the day of some random citizen. but, it is actually a normal person who is an actor. this actor just happens to play the role of a super hero.

here we can see the guy getting his facial make up done by a makeup artist. this particular story is actually centered around this person who plays a super hero inside a screen and he plays the role of a small hero at the end of this story.

here we can see the samaritan fighting a creature that seems like it has the power of lightning. it also looks like that the samaritan is having a hard time fighting with this thing. if that is the case, then it would be a hard time for everyone else to control this thing.

here we can see a group of villains. it seems like they have broken into a place somehow. these people look really familiar. one of these people looks like clayface and another looks like dr. freeze. all these characters in this series are actually drawn to resemble other characters from different comic series.