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'When I was first pitching ASTRO CITY, Lou Bank at Dark Horse described it as "Like WATCHMEN...but cheerful!" I don't think cheerful was the right word, but I appreciated the sentiment.' -- Kurt Busiek















Later, a new piece of music:













Date: 2016-09-30 06:48 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] zapbiffpow
Is it me, or did this post come before a few of the others? Also, I'm pretty sure someone commented here first. Did someone jig the timeline? Barry?

Also, I dig that costume, whoever Sunlight Flapper Lady is.

Date: 2016-09-30 09:48 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] cricharddavies
Her name's Jazzbaby, she's her era's incarnation of musical superheroism.

Date: 2016-10-02 12:22 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] zapbiffpow
Thanks! Now I can put a name to the face.

Date: 2016-10-02 12:50 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] locuatico
if she is the incarnation of Jazz... shouldn't she be black?

Date: 2016-10-02 07:17 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] cricharddavies
The theme of the progression of these avatars seems to be the gradual acceptance and embrace by white culture of what began as a Black artform, so possibly not. Or possibly she's biracial and passes for white.

Date: 2016-10-02 08:10 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] locuatico
I am going with "biracial and passes for white" because that sounds less unfortunate than describing the complex relationship of white culture and black culture as "gradual acceptance and embrace"

Date: 2016-09-30 09:55 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] angry_marmot
Jazzbaby, successor to Mister Cakewalk, each an avatar of their era's musical zeitgeist.

Date: 2016-10-02 12:23 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] zapbiffpow
Thanks + heh, Mister Cakewalk. Man, there's so much to Astro City...

Date: 2016-10-02 12:24 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] zapbiffpow
Hey, I understood that reference!

Well played.

Date: 2016-10-01 01:17 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] halloweenjack
That eldritch horror thingy reminds me of the one from the Confessor arc, the one that the Hanged Man fought.

Date: 2016-10-01 01:29 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] burkeonthesly
Hey, good catch! I see it now, too.

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