So if you've gotten ASTRO CITY 2, out this week, you'll have seen that we're doing the lettercolumn a little differently now. First off, since we have so little space, we're just starting out the column in the comic, and continuing it here, on the blog.
Secondly, the letters we pick to run in the lettercol each month—which we're imaginatively calling the Letter of the Month—will get the writer an autographed copy of that month's issue. Autographed by me alone, because it'd be too much of a hassle to have it mailed around to Brent, Alex and the rest of the gang. So if you want a crack at a signed comic, write us letters.
[Note: I don't know what the various laws are about contests, but this isn't a contest. No purchase is necessary, and it's not a competition or anything; we're picking the LOTM basically by sheer whim. But write in anyway, we'd like to hear from you.]
And for those correspondents who don't get their letter printed in the comic, well, I'll try to run the rest of them here, so that way we can include more letters and more answers, without worrying about what needs to get cut to fit. I reserve the right not to run letters if they're abusive, irrelevant or otherwise whatever-the-hell-it-might-take for me to say, "Dag, no, not running that!"
Letters about the new series will start next time, so what we've got this time is mail that came in during our publishing hiatus.
Let's start with DAVID:
I just finished Astro City Special: Silver Agent #1 and I am intrigued at how this hero who I thought of as a Captain America type became somewhat of a Green Lantern type to boot with becoming a member of the Silver Centurions (neat name by the way, Kurt). I really liked the long vertical panels in the beginning of the book with their single take look at heroes down through the ages. Each panel delivered its own story to my imagination so kudos to everyone on that.
It is a shame that Alan couldn’t end up with Jane, his high school sweet heart and yet she ended up becoming a member of the Craig family by marrying his brother of all people. This is the stuff that most soap operas are made of. It says a lot about Alan’s character to be able to attend family functions and be around Jane, Pete, and their children knowing that had circumstances been different that it would have been him in his brother’s place.
And so we are left waiting eagerly for issue #2. I am looking forward to the monthly schedule for Astro City. How far along is the series now may I ask ? Thanks for the two issue spotlight on Silver Agent!
At the time you asked, we probably weren't that far along. But we've got at least a year's worth of stuff ready to go now, so we're doing much better.
I honestly hadn't thought of the Silver Centurions as a Green Lantern Corps type group, but I can see the resemblance. I first thought of them as kind of a Legion-type organization (heroes from different planets, inspired by the heroic deeds of he past), but didn't want them all to be kids, or all super-powered, so I let them develop into something else.
But glad you liked them! More letters after the break...
