Astro City: Beautie #1
Thursday, February 21st, 2008--by Matthew PetersonOr - “Astro City! Qu’est que c’est! Fa fa fa faaa fafa fafa fa faaah.”
(Five points to the Spoilerite who identifies the source of this review’s header quote, which has been boiling around in my head for over a decade, thanks to faithful Spoilerite Bruce/Prisoner.) Once again, we have an issue of Astro City in our hot little hands (Is it Christmas?) and this one is doubly compelling, covering one of the most unusual heroes of the AC universe: Beautie, the walking Barbie fashion doll. I am on record now as saying I will not be making any of the obvious Dream House jokes, nor will I be calling the issue “Beautie-ful” in an ironic fashion. Astro City deserves more respect than that. Even though I’m sure some readers (maybe even some of the ones reading right now!) looked over this issue as silly, or thought the character’s look or the mostly pink cover made it a “Girl Comic,” but those readers should always be haunted by the lost awesomeness of the tale herein…
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