Astro City is coming back, starting with a one-shot comic that Image Comics will publish in March with variant covers by six Image creators.

Astro City: That Was Then…, by Kurt Busiek, Brent Anderson, Alex Ross, and Alex Sinclair, will feature new and old characters and introduce a new mystery that will run through the upcoming storyline:  Who were the Jayhawks, why did five teenage sidekicks go on a road trip in 1969, and what does that mean to present-day Astro City?  The one-shot is slated for March 30 and will have variant covers by Erik Larsen, Marcelo Costa, Leandro Fernandez, Jamie McKelvie, Chip Zdarsky, and Rob Guillory, each of whom will blend their own story elements into the cover.

Busiek brought Astro City to an end with issue #52, back in 2018, but in October he announced he would be re-starting the series with new characters (see “Image to Publish Kurt Busiek’s Creator-Owned Work”).  The one-shot sets up the new storyline, and Image Comics will also publish the Astro City Metrobook, which collects the first three years of the series, on March 30.

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