Astro City, the beloved and critically acclaimed creator-owned superhero series by Kurt Busiek, Brent Anderson, and Alex Ross, is making a return under the DC Comics banner in June 2013.
This won't be a reboot or an integration of the Astro City characters into the DC Universe, however, so rest easy. Busiek told MTV, "Astro City takes place in its own reality, not part of anyone else's universe, same as it has been from the start. As I like to say, if I want to do a crossover, the Astro City crew can always make up both sides of it. So while we'll be under the DC imprint, we won't be part of the DC Universe."
Though Astro City began under Image Comics in 1995, it would eventually wind up under DC's Wildstorm imprint. The last we saw of the series came with Astro City: The Dark Age, which ended publication upon Wildstorm's closure in 2010. So after a three year hiatus, Busiek and artist Anderson will have a chance to continue their story in an open-ended format.
Astro City #1 Cover by Alex Ross
"It didn't really end, not as a series. We just finished the latest arc -- the Silver Agent two-parter that served as an epilogue to The Dark Age -- and the intention was always to go on to the next step, which was to bring it back as an ongoing series," said Busiek. "It just took us far longer than we expected it to. But we've been working on it the whole time, albeit slowly -- Astro City has never been off my desktop as an active assignment."
He added, "Since there isn't a single ongoing lead character or team, it's not really a case of the series following a particular set of adventures -- we'll be exploring the people of the city and the superhero genre, as before, and seeing what kind of stories we can tell that you just can't get anywhere else, stories ranging from a day in the life of a sorcerer's assistant to the ongoing relationship between Samaritan and Winged Victory, and more."
He also confirmed there would be several new characters in addition to the ones you'd expect.
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