Astro City Metrobook Volume 5 [Paperback]

Star creators Kurt Busiek, Brent Anderson, Alex Ross and friends bring you more stories that changed how we think about superheroes.

Quarrel and Crackerjack have been crimefighters for years, but now face aging and retirement. Former super-criminal Steeljack helps an old lover solve a dangerous mystery. The First Family face peril on a far-flung planet. Plus much more, from dangerous dreams threatening Samaritan, the world’s greatest hero, to a day in the life of a sorcerer’s assistant. Comics legends Kurt Busiek, Brent Anderson, Alex Ross and friends continue to showcase the human within the superhuman.

Collects ASTRO CITY Vol. 3 #11-16 & 25-34Kurt Busiek broke in as a comics writer in 1982, with stories inGreen Lantern#162 andPower Man & Iron Fist#90, both out the same day. Since then, he’s worked on just about everything fromAction ComicstoZot!, including runs onAvengers, Iron Man, Superman, Conan, and others, along with co-creatingThunderbolts,The Power Companyand more. Best known for his work on the multiple-award-winningMarvelsand ASTRO CITY, he’s been turning more and more to creator-owned work of late, including such projects as ARROWSMITH,Superstar,Shockrocketsand THE WIZARD'S TALE, and is currently working on more ASTRO CITY along with his new series THE AUTUMNLANDS, drawn by Benjamin Dewey.

Born in Portland, Oregon, and raised in Lubbock, Texas, Alex made his artistic debut at three when, according to his mother, he grabbed a piece of paper and drew the contents of a television commercial he'd seen moments before. By age 13 he was scripting and drawing original comic books. Ten years later? He was hired by Marvel Comics to illustrate Marvel's central characters in the comic book event,Marvels(1994).

Having established himself creatively and financially with superhero projects, Ross turned to the real worldlsI