Briggita von Tarsen

Stepping into the richly layered world of Kurt Busiek and Brent Eric Anderson's Astro City, Briggita von Tarsen made her debut in 2014 — a Modern Age creation woven into one of comics' most celebrated humanist superhero universes. Though her catalog footprint is intimate, the company she keeps is anything but small: her pages are shared with luminaries like Jack-in-the-Box, Winged Victory, and the Confessor, placing her squarely within Astro City's signature tapestry of street-level consequence and larger-than-life wonder. For devoted readers of the series — and the collected Astro City Metrobook editions — she's a reminder that even a character with a handful of appearances can carry real weight in a world this carefully constructed.