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Astro City, Arrowsmith and more comics from bestselling writer Kurt Busiek are getting digital releases next month courtesy of Image.
Comics writer Kurt Busiek and publisher Image Comics are partnering up to release five of Busiek’s bestselling creator-owned titles digitally.
Image Comics announced Busiek’s award-winning Astro City, which features art by Brent Anderson and covers and character designs by Alex Ross, will join several titles receiving digital releases in August. Other Busiek comics going digital include Arrowsmith, The Wizard’s Tale, Shockrockets and Superstar: As Seen on TV. Readers can download all of these, including Astro City, on Aug. 4 on Comixology, with Image noting the titles will also be made available on Apple Books and Google Play “shortly thereafter.”
“I’m thrilled to be consolidating my creator-owned books at Image,” said Busiek. “Readers have been asking us to make these stories available again, so we’re glad to have them all together at last, and in great company with the rest of the Image line.” The writer also teased the coming of new content, adding, “This is just the beginning, too—there’ll be new material coming as well, but that’ll be another announcement for another day.”
Astro City takes place in a city of superheroes, villains, monsters and more, telling stories in an anthology format across various perspectives “illuminating what it’s like to live amid such marvels.” Arrowsmith is a high fantasy with art by Carlos Pacheco telling the story of a young man in an alternate history dealing with such mythological creatures as dragons and trolls during World War One. The Wizard’s Tale is a Terry Prachett-like fantasy with art by David Wenzel about a supposedly evil wizard, an enchanted toad and the third son of a woodcutter as they make a journey with potentially apocalyptic consequences. Shockrockets features art by Stuart Immonen and tells the story of an elite group of pilots protecting Earth following a devastating alien invasion through hi-tech aircraft fusing modern and alien technology.
Busiek and Immonen team up again in Superstar: As Seen on TV which follows a superhero whose power rises and falls depending on his popularity, and who makes a deal with his international media tycoon father to boost his influence in order to maintain the strength needed to save the world.
Readers hungry for more announcements from the creator-owned comics publisher were recently treated to the return of the Skybound Xpo earlier this month. The two-day virtual event ran from July 17-18 and featured appearances by Robert Kirkman (Invincible) and Rob Liefeld (Deadpool), behind-the-scenes panels, the launch of Skybound’s new young readers graphic novel imprint and much more.
Source: Image Comics
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