"Energy" Brown

Kurt Busiek and Brent E. Anderson introduced "Energy" Brown to the richly layered world of Astro City in 2007, a Modern Age creation who inhabits one of comics' most celebrated independent-flavored universes — now collected in the sweeping Astro City Metrobook volumes. With only a handful of catalog appearances, this is a character whose presence is felt in the texture of Astro City's Dark Age storyline, sharing those gritty, morally complex pages with the likes of Black Velvet, Royal Williams, and Charles Williams. For dedicated Astro City completists, tracking down every figure who populates Busiek's intricate, human-scaled cosmos is its own rewarding pursuit — and "Energy" Brown is exactly the kind of discovery that makes that hunt worthwhile.