A review by mjfmjfmjf
Astro City, Vol. 16: Broken Melody by Alex Ross, Kurt Busiek, Brent Anderson
4.0
And the grand re-read is almost done. I rarely re-read my reviews before I re-read a book when I've already decided to re-read it. So I'm always wondering when I read it after to see if my opinion has changed. This book seemed off. I mean it was fine. And I liked a lot of the details, but I just didn't like the whole. And mostly it was the Broken Man. Which is weird cause I kind of like the Broken Man art. And on this read through, I liked the incarnations of musical rebellion. But this was definitely one of the weaker books.
I liked it, and it was still Astro City. But there was something kind of missing, something that just didn't work. Maybe it was the idea of the Broken Man talking directly to us. Or the idea of the spirit of music. Maybe it was the large number of characters, individually great but otherwise just overwhelming. It was going to see the origin of Astro City, but the Astro-naut was a little lame. Still good though, and better than many. 3.5 of 5.
I liked it, and it was still Astro City. But there was something kind of missing, something that just didn't work. Maybe it was the idea of the Broken Man talking directly to us. Or the idea of the spirit of music. Maybe it was the large number of characters, individually great but otherwise just overwhelming. It was going to see the origin of Astro City, but the Astro-naut was a little lame. Still good though, and better than many. 3.5 of 5.